Shed improperly set up without foundation, ideas for fix
My husband did not listen to myself and several other people and thought putting a 10 x 8 plastic shed on unlevel pea gravel would be sufficient. You can imagine how that went. Nothing is level and the doors will not line up. I need to figure out how to fix this. Here is my idea, remove the floor, it is screwed into the walls and easy enough to do. Dig out/use a bottle jack on each corner and slowly lift/level/block temporarily, so I would lift one corner/block and go around and around as not to damage the shed. Does this make sense? The next step I'm struggling with is how to slide a skid foundation, or some sort of foundation I build, under the shed. I will def try to level out the pea gravel as much as possible and want to keep that there for drainage. But I am not sure how to slide something under considering I'll have blocks on each corner. I do not want to buy 4 jacks and would rather just do this with one. I need to keep this simple and cost effective, I do not have the capacity/money to do something like move the shed and do concrete. A simple foundation just to level is sufficient for the area we live in. Most people just have theirs on blocks. I would appreciate any ideas anyone has if we can make this work. Worse case I rip the entire thing apart and start over but I hope to avoid that. submitted by /u/reppoc0308 [link] [comments]
| | My husband did not listen to myself and several other people and thought putting a 10 x 8 plastic shed on unlevel pea gravel would be sufficient. You can imagine how that went. Nothing is level and the doors will not line up. I need to figure out how to fix this. Here is my idea, remove the floor, it is screwed into the walls and easy enough to do. Dig out/use a bottle jack on each corner and slowly lift/level/block temporarily, so I would lift one corner/block and go around and around as not to damage the shed. Does this make sense? The next step I'm struggling with is how to slide a skid foundation, or some sort of foundation I build, under the shed. I will def try to level out the pea gravel as much as possible and want to keep that there for drainage. But I am not sure how to slide something under considering I'll have blocks on each corner. I do not want to buy 4 jacks and would rather just do this with one. I need to keep this simple and cost effective, I do not have the capacity/money to do something like move the shed and do concrete. A simple foundation just to level is sufficient for the area we live in. Most people just have theirs on blocks. I would appreciate any ideas anyone has if we can make this work. Worse case I rip the entire thing apart and start over but I hope to avoid that. [link] [comments] |
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