Building a Shed.. Need more space for bikes !!

[Ypedal]

Damit.. never enough room. Spare bedrooms are full, garage is full, shed also full, so it's time for a 2nd shed !

I picked up a copy of the one i already have for 350 $ at canadian tire, on sale 100$ off..

shed in a box.. 8x10 :

 

[Ypedal]

My other shed was assembled on top of a wood floor, cost me 200$ for lumber and a day to build a deck, this shed is going to be used for the lawn tractor and my trike, so i decided against wood and got 20 patio blocks !! .. 24" x 24" something like 75 lbs each !

Damn things are HEAVY !!!... 2 kids at the store lifted them on the truck tail-gate and i stacked them.. both of these kids were sweating bullets and could barely lift the blocks by number 20 lol... then when i got home i had to haul these suckers from my neighbor's truck to the back yard by myself !!! phew.. 2 at a time in a wheelbarrow.. one hell of a job !

However, since the yard has a slope to it .. i need to build up the ground..... more back breaking work !!!..

 

[Ypedal]

Good o'l trusty trike !!!!..

1985 Honda 250SX, on hot/warm days she fires right up at the push of a button ( kick start is fubared, one way bearing is shot.. but the electric start works awsome ! )

I lucked out, since i have a road construction company at the end of my street, they have a yard full of surplus crushed pavement !!!...

For the last 3 days i've been hauling half a dozen rubermaid bins per night and leveling things out.. good base for the cinder blocks !! plus it's good fun to use the trike !!

Took a lot of work, but before ebikes i was heavily into these trikes, i've had the 110, 125m, 185s, regular 200, 200s, 200m, 200ES, and kept the SX , the king of them all ! ( would love a 250R but those are a bit too much for me.. ) .. amazingly i managed to get both front AND back brakes to work !!!... most of these trikes had no brakes 2 years off the show room floor !

 

[amberwolf]

It'd be nice to have the time and whatnot to make a floor for my newer shed I put up last month...instead it's got some old masonite and plywood for a "floor" just so stuff wouldn't be directly on the dirt. When i have time I'll probably pull the stuff out of the shed and pull the masonite and plywood out, and replace it with something else, once I get that something else.

Or maybe I'll just snag some damaged pallets being trashed, and use those to keep things off the ground.

I like your idea much better, though.

 

[TylerDurden]

Pea-gravel works pretty well. Easy to move, doesn't rot or harbor critters.

 

[slayer]

Me i am going to ask my permit for a 16 by 24 garage ...i have a house that when was build in the 50 s they put at the end of the lot and they say a garage must be build in the backyard or equal to the house ...anyway i hope they will accept my demand ...

now i will have space for play ...but no money to play with ...lolll
no i will probably find a way

 

[dnmun]

why not pour concrete? i cannot tell from your picture, but if you want to have a sub base for your pavers, you have to dig the dirt out down to the bottom of the roots, about 3", then bring in your aggregate and pack it with the plate compactor. form up to the dimension of your shed, or larger, and put in some brackets in the concrete when you pour so you can attach the bottom plate of the shed walls to the slab. permanent.

i have learned to love concrete. poured a bunch now here at my house, about 44 yds total. i have all the tools too, except for the edgers the guys stole when they left.

why not add a shed roof addition to the back of your house, with a slab, and run a sidewalk to it? run wiring out through the wall into the shed addition. permanent.

 

[Ypedal]

If it was larger than 8x10 i would absolutely have gone with the cement slab, however this is inside the fence in my back yard and the cement truck would not reach, i would be wheel barrow hauling ..... however, i put 2' x 2' cement blocks and made a base on top of the compacted pavement particles, i used a lawn roller ( with 40 Gal of water in it ) to flatten it out on top of the grass ( Yeah, i know, i should dig up the grass... but i did not.. )

And then there were 2 !

 

[DAND214]

Maybe 3?
I know I would need to anchor them down, if I had one.
Looks great.
Dan

 

[grindz145]

The bike collection always seem to grow to fit the space

 

[Ypedal]

Speaking of anchoring it down, i need to do that still, i drove the trike into it and when the back wheels rolled over the entire shed moved over an inch lmao..

 

[Doctorbass]

Nice Ypedal!

Now you can install one of these epoxy floor and also add some calandar of chix on ebikes on the wall... and a refrigerator for beer 8)

Doc

 

[edcastrovalley]

Very nice. But to finish you must smash a cold one on it and drink a 12 pack!

 

[jonescg]

I built my trusty 3m x 3m garden shed on top of a concrete slab. Luckily I could get the cement truck to drive up the laneway where I pulled a panel off the fence and he could fit the chute through. Unfortunately, it's not the most waterproof shed, especially here where the rain only comes in sideways

My advice is definitely to pour a slab. And don't dither on the anchoring either - I had a massive hailstorm push my shed off the slab and mess things up pretty good. Still, nothing a bit of silicone glue can't fix

 

[AussieJester]

Still, nothing a bit of silicone glue can't fix

Gastons Canadian, i think their version of silicone is Duct Tape isn't it? Could
just imagine straps of duct tape over the shed staked into the grass with a torque arm as a latch for the lock

Good job though buddy, seriously anything that gives you more undercover space is a good thing IMO

Seeing it is your place not a rental, have you thought about extending the garage attached to the house?

I'm lucky i live in a garage large enough to fit cars side by side plus a couple of bikes, i have another workshop thats
two cars across and one and a half long, also got a lil shed same size as yours out back i never even use anymore.

I sympathise truly with some members on here that have no choice but to
build bikes on their lounge room floor, its foreign to me not to have a workshop
i couldn't do without, i need a dedicated workshop to tackle even little jobs
a a place for everythig and everything in its place as they say haha

KiM

 

[number1cruncher]

Plant in sets of three...