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    Default Old Tractor Shed what to do?

    Hi Peoples been a long time since I have been on the forum kids are now getting older finding there own way and I am now
    living out in the regions.

    I have a small shed but it is cluttered/ full of equipment no real room to work and to be honest quite overwhelming I honestly dont like going in there.

    So we have this old tractor shed that has been used for storage of the caravan as well as other odds and sods its not really usable for anything meaningful and now with the van gone I want to
    make half it to area area that I can escape to.

    So the idea is to lay a 6x8 floor in half the tractor shed, the main issue though is that it is on a slope over 8meters it falls from front to back about 600mm, I thought about concrete but would have to build a retaining wall
    around the back backfill concrete and the costs could very well get out of hand cost wise.

    So what I am thinking is building a subfloor tongue and grove and maybe one meter of concrete on the first part of the shed that way I have a place to put a heavy item or two if needed I will keep my lates and mill in the other shed keep it dedicated to metal etc.

    I was just going to go treated pine bearers and joists, but now thinging c pulins could alos be an option but I am not so sure on span tables and thickness or that.

    Anyone got nay ideas..

    Willy
    I like to move it move it, I like to move it.

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    You could build 2 walls one at the 600mm end (you would just need a concrete foundation at the ground level end, raised up with some formwork by say 100mm to keep the joists off the ground) and one mid span which is called a sleeper wall and gives bearing for the joists at mid span, this would still give a 4000mm span to deal with each side of the sleeper wall and the joists would have to be sized accordingly, however you could divide the 8000mm span to allow for 2 sleeper walls this would reduce the joist section size needed, because there span would be less.

    Also if you make the joist centers smaller (say 300mm) then this will help with loadbearing, lastly the thickness if your T&G will help spread the load, so 21mm would be better than 18mm.

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