<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Late to the party as usual.<div><br></div><div>Mine is 8 x 10.5. My late nephew-by-marriage assembled while I was at work. Had several guys move it to a place I didn't like for several reasons. Argued with my wife for years about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally the maple-tree roots had forced it so out-of-whack that the doors would not close right. SWMBO finally said I could move it.</div><div><br></div><div>The place where I wanted it is not level. I built a dead-level treated-wood frame on six precast-concrete post-bases. Topped that with treated plywood. This means that the door is not at ground level. Not good for lawnmower and garden cart. I bought a pair of pickup-truck ramps at Horrible Freight. Built a way to slide them onto cleats below the floor so they would be out of the rain/snow and not cluttering up the inside of the shed.</div><div><br></div><div>Got a young, smart, buddy to help me disassemble the shed. Screwed the shed floor to the plywood. Buddy helped me reassemble the shed and run power to it.</div><div><br></div><div>Doors work again. Cantilevered steps work fine for most access. Ramps are easy to pull out of their homes between joists and put in place. Lawnmower and garden cart roll in and out just fine. Bonus is that I can prop the ramps up to get to underside of mower for service.</div><div><br></div><div>This should last for years. I have "platforms" at both front and back doors of my house built the same way, and they have not moved in decades. ("Decks" need permits and frost footings.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:44 AM DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div> <font size="3">We in stalled one of those on a concrete sidewalk and we still had to shim it up to get the doors to work. These are light, durable and inexpensive but not very sturdy. You can probably get by with scraping the dirt flat but over the years and a few rainstorms dirt can flow and you may have to tug the get the doors open and closed.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">First off. I'll inform you that I had Comcast, my service provider, <br>
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<div dir="ltr">switch out my old cable modem for a faster, wifi enabled unit. At the <br>
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<div dir="ltr">moment I *think* Team Net is still working as usual, no service <br>
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<div dir="ltr">disruption. We shall see.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Okay, now that the man behind the curtain stuff is out of the way I am <br>
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<div dir="ltr">planning getting a plastic garden shed. I'm looking at one big enough to <br>
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<div dir="ltr">hold the lawnmover, weed whackers, rakes, etc. Basically all the garden <br>
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<div dir="ltr">stuff that is taking up valuable space in the garage. I need the room to <br>
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<div dir="ltr">actually get some work done on my cars.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's only 7 feet wide and 4 feet deep. It comes with a plastic slab as <br>
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<div dir="ltr">the floor. What do you think, can I just scrape a space in the dirt <br>
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<div dir="ltr">that is fairly level and call it good? Or go all the way and have a <br>
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<div dir="ltr">small, say 8 x 5 concrete slab professionally poured as a foundation? <br>
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<div dir="ltr">That will likely cost more than the shed!<br>
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