A bloke needs a shed

[Aussie Mike]

Originally Posted by sambo

Thanks guys. Does that include removing 6" of soil or do they just pour 6" up inside the walls? Trusteel said the wall cladding is usually dropped below ground level a few inches.

Trusteel needed the site scraped and level and a layer of crushed rock in before they start. I got a local bobcat bloke to come in and scrape the site. 4 hours for $320 is about the going rate. I got about 10M of crushed rock in and he spread that over the site and leveled it.

For this shed I went up rather than digging it in. With my old shed I dug it out for the slab but it meant the shed was prone to getting some water in there if the strip drain out front got blocked.

The new slab was poured inside the shed but I had a vermin strip attached to the bottom edge of the wall cladding. The slab was boxed against this and filled in behind it. The advantage is that you can easily remove and replace a sheet of tin without busting the concrete (Just as well since I snagged the side of the shed with the bucket on the tractor ). On the old shed I had the bottom edge of the tin sunk into the concrete. This made a good seal but after 10 years or so it was showing some signs of rust on the bottom. When I extended it was a pain to join the cladding up too.

Cheers