I set up a shed!

Since I am building a filming studio in my garage, I need to have a little house for storage!

First I need to setup the shed base. There are multiple options here but one thing is sure, you can't put a shed on top of soil or grass! You can either pave it with slabs, pour concrete, pin it in soil with a strong wooden shed base or use a plastic shed base with gravel. I chose the last option because it was quicker and also wooden shed bases were sold out everywhere!

So I purchased 800 kg of 10mm gravel, that is 45 bags of 20kg gravel each. That was pretty much plenty of enough for a shed that is around 2x2m. It cost me 100 quid. But apparently that is the minimum and it's also a bulk delivery from B&Q! Then I purchased 3 plastic shed base packages, each with 4 square plastics with holes that is 50 cm wide. I also bought 1 weed control frabric roll, it was 2 m wide by 10 m length. Plenty!

Also beware of B&Q bulk delivery, the crane coudn't enter the driveway so I had to carry the gravel myself to my property, 45 bags of gravel was a bit of a stretch for 9 in the morning haha :).

I started on the base by removing the grass first and trying to dig the soil to kind of compensate for how uneven the ground was. There was a steep decline from one side to the other :(

Once I dug up, I started to pour the gravel. I think I poured 25 bags. A lot because the ground was uneven. Always use a spirit level!

Once the level was kind of even, I set up the fabric and the plastic shed base. Then I poured more gravel on top. In the beginning I was sceptical that the base will hold because as I was walking on the gravel I was sort of sinking in the gravel, there was just too much of it on one side. But after I actually filled up the plastic shed base with gravel inside the holes, it stayed pretty stable and it felt sturdy!

So then I was ready, that was it. I started setting up the shed floor and I realized that I purchased a plastic shed which had to be anchored to the floor and that wouldn't be possible with a gravel floor. So unfortunately it's not possible to pin it to the floor but I decided to still proceed because if I fill in the shed with stuff it should feel pinned even without the anchors!

The shed I purchased was the Parlam 2 x 2 m skilight shed. It's plastic and apparently the roof is a bit transparent so the sun is entering the shed. I had it for a week now and to be honest it's not moldy or damp and it's pretty dry. However it's not very secure, the panels are practicly paper thin and easy to rip. So someone could easy disassmble it and steal things from it. So I don't think it's a great choice even though the Parlam company is pretty reputable.

I built the shed over 2 days, it was kind of easy but many many parts to put together, the roof was fiddly and the walls were like putting a cardboard box together, really horribly fiddle. The whole time everything was very unstable. By the last stages when you actually put the rubber around the walls, the shed started to feel stable. I will post pictures of the result soon!