Shed Base - contradicting advice

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Hi,

The missus decided to buy our young daughter a wooden playhouse measuring 7 foot by 5. Its going near the bottom of the garden on what used to be a grassed area.

Now i know it needs to go on a base and after doing a google search found some helpful advice - however it seems that the more i look into the more the info seems to contradict itself.

I was planning to lay a base using paving stones and so far i have measured out the required area using pegs and string, took away the topsoil - and its this next step i get contradicting info about.

The site i got the info from said use 1 bag cement to 8 bags builders sand, level off and they lay the flags. However other sites say that for this type of base i need to lay crushed stone rather than the sand/cement dry mix. So not sure what to do next - i was planning to crack on with laying the flags this evening.

Apologies if it doesnt make sense, as you may guess i am a relative DIY novice - and given that i managed to cut my hands up a treat while simply trying to find my gardening gloves - theres a good chance that i could sustain some serious personal injuries putting this thing up and have already got BUPA on standby :)

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers
 
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Just go for it using the sand/cement method. No need for a sub base under such a lightweight structure.
 
and whatever method you choose make shure the wood is atleast a couple of inches off the ground

and if your concrete is the floor make shure its a few inches above the surrounding ground and the wood covers the edges to stop the rain that runs down the sides getting into the inside
 

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