Got an offer of a shed last week, secondhand, so went for it cost £500 from a local school, but don't know what it's been sitting on cos the floor joists are pretty shot but the rest of it is sound.
I'm thinking on doing a base in concrete 100mm thick, no reinforcing, no type 1 below(we really don't need it there is no soil just hard compacted glacial till under where it's going).
Can anyone advise what size of mixer I should get as I plan to handball the lot, and how long it would take to do 2m cubed (so about 5 tonnes all in) just one person?
The joists it's got at present are only 38x95 so even if I was to put down a series of pads and make good the rotten outer timbers of the frame I'd still need at least 18 perfectly level and square to each other= ballache!!
My other option would be to scrap the frame(it's in 2 parts 12x9), reclaim the 18mm ply from it, and build a new frame of tanalised/treated timber using 8x2's. Maximum span at 600mm centres is about 3.4m so with 6 blocks and 2 frames (2.74x 3.65) this would work out ok provided the long side of the block helped reduce the 3.65 to 3.4....?Other side no problem well within span limits. If I made the 2 outer frames in 8x2 I could maybe even reduce the internal floor ones spanning the 2.74 to 6x2's as their max span is 2.61m...near enough!
I do need to get this thing erected ASAP, it's lying in the garden totally in the way of everything(including my decking project which has been scuppered by this new arrival!!!)
I'm thinking on doing a base in concrete 100mm thick, no reinforcing, no type 1 below(we really don't need it there is no soil just hard compacted glacial till under where it's going).
Can anyone advise what size of mixer I should get as I plan to handball the lot, and how long it would take to do 2m cubed (so about 5 tonnes all in) just one person?
The joists it's got at present are only 38x95 so even if I was to put down a series of pads and make good the rotten outer timbers of the frame I'd still need at least 18 perfectly level and square to each other= ballache!!
My other option would be to scrap the frame(it's in 2 parts 12x9), reclaim the 18mm ply from it, and build a new frame of tanalised/treated timber using 8x2's. Maximum span at 600mm centres is about 3.4m so with 6 blocks and 2 frames (2.74x 3.65) this would work out ok provided the long side of the block helped reduce the 3.65 to 3.4....?Other side no problem well within span limits. If I made the 2 outer frames in 8x2 I could maybe even reduce the internal floor ones spanning the 2.74 to 6x2's as their max span is 2.61m...near enough!
I do need to get this thing erected ASAP, it's lying in the garden totally in the way of everything(including my decking project which has been scuppered by this new arrival!!!)