[Shop-talk] Tool shed foundation?

[Peter J. Thomas]

Buy a big bag of portland cement. After leveling the dirt, water it them 
mix the bag of cement to about 4 inches.  Tamp it down.  You have now 
made soil cement.

On 6/11/2020 10:32 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> First off. I'll inform you that I had Comcast, my service provider, 
> switch out my old cable modem for a faster, wifi enabled unit.  At the 
> moment I *think* Team Net is still working as usual, no service 
> disruption.  We shall see.
>
> Okay, now that the man behind the curtain stuff is out of the way I am 
> planning getting a plastic garden shed. I'm looking at one big enough 
> to hold the lawnmover, weed whackers, rakes, etc. Basically all the 
> garden stuff that is taking up valuable space in the garage. I need 
> the room to actually get some work done on my cars.
>
> It's only 7 feet wide and 4 feet deep.  It comes with a plastic slab 
> as the floor.  What do you think, can I just scrape a space in the 
> dirt that is fairly level and call it good?  Or go all the way and 
> have a small, say 8 x 5 concrete slab professionally poured as a 
> foundation?  That will likely cost more than the shed!
>
> mjb.
>
>
>
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