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Need help with shed bracing.

 
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Hi, I am going to try and explain this the best I can, I have bracing questions on a shed I am building.

I have an out door pen, it is 20 ft long by 12 ft wide and 8 ft high.
It is built with 6x6 in corners and in the center of the 20 ft runs. I then have a 2x8 all around the bottom top and the middle, this had Weld wire in it for birds.

I now want to enclose it, so I put 4x4 on the bottom and I attached 2 and 9/16th inch thick by 6inch rough cut barn board flooring and I ran them the 12 foot width across.

I I am raising the one 2o ft long end up another two ft with a 2 ft fall I built to get the pitch for the metal roof. I cut in and attached rafters 16 on center for this and I put down 12 x 1 rough cut lumber down as perlins going all the way across every two ft.
The one 12 ft end Id like to open up and make 2 4 ft wide doors.
Outside of the building will be rough cut board and batton.

Any ideas on how I should brace this building, I normally would brace it diagonal on the ends but Id like to open the end up. Its a storage shed but obviously I want it safe

Building is not in concrete as I never planned to do this when i build the run. It is going to be attached to a 10X12 Shed on the one end which I over built and that thing is not moving, 2x6 framed 16 oc walls 5/8th plywood on the outside with board and batton over it, 1/2 plywood on the inside, 2x8 floors with plywood roof same as walls.

I know Pictures would be helpful I just dont have any handy. Thank you
 
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I think it depends a bit on your anticipated wind load.  Hurricanes could change the options.

If you have a 12' end wall with two 4' doors in it, can you arrange it so that the doors are pushed to one side and you have a 4' section of wall on that end of the building?  That should be enough to make a good diagonal brace.  Failing that, centering the doors would still give a 2' wall on either side which would be a decent pair of braces.

Also, if the doors are a normal height, the angle brace can shoot over their corners on their way up to the upper cross beam.  So a 2' wall could maybe fit a 2.5" wide angle brace.  If I'm making any sense...
 
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I got a 30 x 48 through barn framed 4 feet on center, and the sheathing around the doors on the end is more than enough to laterally brace the building.


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I'm with Mike on this, except that I'd use plywood to make a shear panel(s) on the end with the doors rather than braces.
Doesn't matter if you do 2 feet on either side of the doors, or 4 feet on one side. I'd cover everything that wasn't the doorway, and nail off the plywood every 4 inches.
You could do this on the interior, and make the exterior B&B siding like the rest, or all exterior like your other shed. It will be very stiff.
 
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