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Post by xyrn on Oct 22, 2014 12:59:06 GMT -5
I'm at work so just a quick post. In my town you need a permit for >120 square feet, or if you pour footings. I've never seen a shed with a permanent foundation, and I'm not worried about frost heaving. The place I set it has dirt that hasn't been turned in a hundred years, so it's not going to shift much.
It's actually not white, it's sky blue to match the house (in the video the wet paint looks white in the sunlight).
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Post by xyrn on Oct 22, 2014 13:06:47 GMT -5
The footings are 15 2x12 patio blocks that support 5 4x4by8 timbers.
The shed kit itself weighs 996lbs, the shingles weighed another 240 lbs, and those timbers and blocks added another 200.
Oh, if anyone is interested I used a program I loaded onto my digicam that allowed me to shoot one shot every 6 seconds until the card is full. Then I compiled those 5600 jpegs into a time lapse with two other programs on my PC.
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Post by david on Oct 22, 2014 13:13:05 GMT -5
My home ownership thing for today is to turn off water to outside shower, so it won't freeze <if> it gets that cold this winter. No more outside showers till spring. If Arizona has water this winter!
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Post by Marshall on Oct 22, 2014 13:24:09 GMT -5
. . . , I've never seen a shed with a permanent foundation, and I'm not worried about frost heaving. The place I set it has dirt that hasn't been turned in a hundred years, so it's not going to shift much. . . , Frost Heave is not worried about you either. Old and new dirt will go up and down with frost. That's what water does. Not that it will be a problem for the shed. But it will move. (It might be interesting to note that the freezing of the ground will be uneven as the soil near the edge will freeze first whilest the soil under the middle will freeze slower as it has some additional protection from the insulating value of the shed. This will cause some warping stresses on the nails and boards. Nothing out of the ordinary. But the movement will work on the shed framing.) The other thing. The soil under the shed will have the shed load, so it will compress more than the un-loaded dirt around it; thus, potentially, creating a low point, causing ground water to flow under the shed; promoting rot and more frost movement. Plus bugs and such really like cool damp areas. But you will be fine. Set up your camera to take a photo every morning for 10 years and see what happens.
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Post by Doug on Oct 22, 2014 13:41:06 GMT -5
Here in Kingman you don't pull a permit for anything under 250sqft. The shed that was here was stick built on a slab so the when we put in the new one (back to back with the old) it went on a slab too. If FL we were so far in the boonies that code stuff didn't happen, nobody pulled permits for anything less than a new house or dairy barn. I bought a 12x20 shed (one of the pre made ones) med high end, it was built on 4x6 skids that after he rolled it into place (with a bunch of 6in PVC pipes - log rolling it by himself) once in place paver under the high end and 2 1 1/2 ton jacks under the high end till level and block and pavers to hold it then back to the middle with the jacks and blocks and pavers there. So 6 supports for a 12x20 on sand. I thought it was not enough but hey I bought it installed and never had any problem. When I built the 12x12 deck it was on 9 4x6 post 6 ft deep. <shrug> I like to over build.
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