Tomorrow morning when I get up, I'll be going to get "most" of the lumber to make the foundation for the shed. What I won't be getting tomorrow is the 4x8x3/4 plywood for the floor. Don't want it laying around and maybe warping until I'm ready for it. It might lay around for a while until I get the blocks where I want them then build the foundation on top of the blocks.
What I will be getting tomorrow is:
9 - concrete blocks
7 - 4" flat blocks
2 - 2x8x16 cut down to 13' so I can haul them
11 - 2x8x8
18-2x8 hangers
Don't need nails or anything else that I know of. Originally, I was going to use pyramid blocks and build on top of them but changed my mine.
Are building on blocks any good compared to putting posts in the ground? Don't really know, but what I can tell you I dog holes in the ground for posts here on three sides of the house and digging in the ground here is hell, nothing but rocks most of the time, big rocks! It took a lot of time trying to bust up a cock down in the hole to get it out, and two or three times I set the post on top of the rock being it was to big to bust up... like giant rocks!
Another thing I can tell you, if you see the deck that goes out to the pool and around it, all of that decking is sitting on pyramid blocks, and I never had any trouble with them.
The idea of using 4" flat block is it has about the same if not bigger footprint on the ground as a pyramid block. All I'll need to do is dig down a few inches for a good firm footing for the flat block to sit on and tamp it down good.
In any case, looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me.... and that work will go slow if it's really hot out. Actually, making the foundation is going to be the easy part, the hard part will be putting the shed together.
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