Shed base

[Dave 57]

Hi guys and gals
I am having a 14ftx8ftshed being delivered in four weeks and have started prepwork. I am using an interlocking plastic base and have had to shift some soil from one side of the garden to the other end to level it out which has meant there is an extra 6 inches or so of soil against the fence.
Would I be best off making some sort of retainer for that side and if so how should I go about this.
Also is building sand ok for final leveling under the base and just to let you know the soil is very sticky clay type.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Dave

 

[Dextraneous]

Unless you can compact that soil down properly, I'd be very wary of using it as a sub base instead of rubble/ballast. A narrow retainer is easy enough to construct - a couple of planks to create a former with concrete poured between them.

http://www.tigersheds.com/buildabase.asp provides details of site preparation (there are plenty of others if you do a quick google)

 

[Dave 57]

Thanks for the replay, I was hiring a whacker plate this weekend to make sure it was nice and compacted and was told this should be sufficient for the plastic interlocking base panels....hoping this will be the case and as for the retainer I was thinking something along those lines just wanted to make sure

 

[Dave 57]

Would hiring a wacker plate be the right thing to as well as using sharp sand to fill in the gaps/deviations?