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My shed is currently sat on the patio at the end of the garden. It’s a waste of a decent space and also means the air flow isn’t great. I’m going to move it and can’t decide whether I should just chuck some flags down or actually do a proper concrete base.
Never tried concreting before, but willing to give it a shot. I’m also willing to pay for it doing if needed / easier and less faff. Any other simple options I’m overlooking? The shed is one of the 7 x 3 Trojan things so a fair size.
I inherited one from a neighbour. I just got cheap standard pavers from Wickes and laid them on tamped sharp sand. I did put a cement edge around once they were all laid. It's rock solid.
This will show my level of ineptitude, but did you have the pavers level with the surrounding area or raised? It would be sitting on what’s left of the lawn. I’m hoping to do away with the grass completely at some point, but in the short term I’ll still need to mow. Detest grass (and block paving which is what the raised patio is), but that’s a whole other thread.
I appreciate this may sound like a stupid question but I’m at funk masterp’s level here, I wanted an Asgard shed for my bikes but assumed standing it on a patio could have it carried away... no?
if I can trust my Babies in a free standing Asgard I may go shopping...
My patio is hidden from the view and the shed is heavy with all the crap I’ve hidden in there 😂
I think ours weighs around 20st , noones going to run off with it .
Depends what asguard your getting, mine is the big walk in jobbie, think it weighs Over 300kg empty, its on a bed of council pavers and sharp sand flush-ish to the surrounding grass, a hire/loan of a wacker plate is a big help
Yes the one I was looking as says 18 stone, plus say 45kg so 25 stone? Still liftable by 4 burly chaps, but I guess would they bother for 4 bikes, which they’d have a job getting out of it later and try to sell for a few hundred on eBay...
I assume you can bolt it onto patio?.
OP - I've done a few concrete bases, have 3 in the current garden. I've always done the same thing, build a wooden shutter the size you want, fill it about 2" from the sides, and an inch or two from the top with slabs, bricks, rubble etc.
Then either mix, or preferably get concrete delivered, and fill the shutter, and screed the top to get it nice n flat.
Saves an awful lot of mixing/concrete delivered, and gets rid of all said filler material.
Job done.
Ours has been happily sitting on 6 bricks on a redundant flowerbed for the last 4 years no issues so far, plenty of circulation, always bone dry.
Have the 4 bike type
Why go through the hassle of laying concrete bricks will do !
Another option. Either filled with gravel/sand or not.
That’s my kind of solution cheers