r/shedditors

We just had our new shed built. It’s a 10’ x 12’ shed. We love it, however we are stuck on what to do with the huge gap between the base and the bottom of the shed. We have them up on 4” blocks and we can have them lowered to 2” blocks but I’m not sure it will make much of a difference. I notice online that many of the sheds shown online are directly on the skids but I understand the rotting potential of that. Is this large of a gap normal? Also, how do we hide that gap so toys, kids or animals don’t get under it? Should we go ahead and lower it the 2”?

I want something relatively inexpensive, and that will keep the dust from kicking up. It would be nice to also have something that can easily roll stuff on, like a car creeper, my bike, and grills.

I purchased a Keter 7.5' x 11' shed and needed a base, so I built this to Keter's minimum foundation size. This is going to be my garden tool shed.

After I get the ground anchors connected, I'll be putting on a PT plywood floor, which I'll be treating the edges with primer to seal it and then Thompson's WaterSeal on the top. I've had the plywood stacked and stickered in my downstairs with the house heat and a dehumidifier to dry it out so it would take the sealant.

Eventually, I'll add/build some type of ramp.

How did I do so far? It's my first time doing anything like this.

I am buying a new shed from Amish shed construction in Upstate NY. It’s a 10x12 shed with treated skids.

My backyard is just grass and I am doing to put pavers down just to hold the skids. I am thinking 3 pavers each for each skid. I don’t have the skill or the money to pour concrete or build a whole paver base. Is there anything I should know to do this better with the limited resources?

I am also going to paint the shed. It doesn’t even come with a primer. So I am going to use a mold resistant primer and then paint it. Will this be enough?

Attaching a picture of what my shed will look like out of the factory

Sooo I don’t have enough space between side or back fences to put a mini split (only 15in at the widest part). On a scale of “you should be ashamed of yourself” to “that would probably work” where would mounting it on the roof be? It’s this, mounting it on the front, making the office smaller or finding another way to heat/cool the place.

I have this existing concrete slab on my property that is not even or flat. Much of the slab slopes slightly down toward the stairs, which is good for rain, but the back couple feet slopes the opposite direction. Is this slab usable? Does it have to be corrected? Is there some type of self-leveling concrete or other material I could use to level this out?

The shed that I have bought is a Suncast 7'x10' shed from Costco. The slab is about 8.5'x10.5'.

Hello, I saw a photo online of kind of a rustic A frame pavilion and really like the look and feel of it, maybe you have seen it already, and I want to try and copy it, or at least get close, but I am not sure it is even a workable, stable design?  I live in Minnesota so snowfall and frost heaving is a concern, and it would be out in the woods far from any other structure.

For example the base frame looks like the wood is on it's side instead of on it's edge, not sure why someone would do that?  Also the round wooden posts, I wonder how they are fastened to the base?  And finally does this whole thing look stable?   It looks to me to be about 12 foot wide by 10 foot deep, but hard to tell, might be smaller like 10X8?  Anyway any thoughts anyone has on how to get started on this would be appreciated, or how to make it better (for example replacing the log supports with regular framing lumber, or using a more traditional floating deck as a base) or reasons to skip it and start from scratch on a different design. My carpentry skills are probably intermediate at best.

This is how it looked when my contractor put flooring on top of the insulation. It gets to single digits where I live in Utah, is this good? Or am I gonna get cold feet in the winter in my office shed?

Hangout in my grandmas back yard for me and my cousins and young family used to be my granddads old shed as you can see on the first picture 😂

I am replacing this shed. It is pretty close to an old black walnut tree. Some of the roots are exposed in the current shed floor (concrete 2x2 slabs). I dont really have the option to put the shed anywhere else. I have received mixed opinions from the contractors i have talked to.

Which would be the best option long term? Concrete slab, deck built on buried sonotube posts, deck built on floating concrete blocks. Any other option?

Hey everyone, I’m looking to tear down an old and poorly built shed and build/buy a new 8x10 one that will be put in the corner of my flagstone patio. Before I pull the trigger, I wanted to get some advice from this sub.

As you can see, there is large, irregular flagstone (likely set on a sand/gravel base, but they feel very solid. I'm also going to be replacing the fence in the future and don't care about the wheeled portion that currently doesn't actually open, so disregard that.

I'm concerned about the base and leveling. The stones are pretty flat but I've read that you can't build a wood shed on flagstone. What should I do? If I remove them I won't have a perfectly square/rectangular section for the shed base to built.

I’ve attached a photo of the area. Would love to hear from anyone who has built over stone or if I should suck it up and pull the stones out to do a proper gravel pad instead.

Thanks in advance!