Thread: Shed on stumps?

Sorry it's taken so long to post, but being a slack ares, it took me ages to get a couple of photos. SWMBO needed a new feed and tack shed for her two horses but the slope was too great for a pad. So I used 3000x200x50 pine sleepers, four around the outside and at 450 ctrs on joist hangers in the middle. Lower end is resting on 3 concrete pads at ground level and high end is on 3 100x100 posts on gal stirrups, checked to receive the sleeper. The floor is tongued 15mm ply.
I noticed that pine sleepers were well dimensioned and straight and economical so I thought I'd give them a go. Construction was very simple too. Just coach screw the four outside ones together, check for square and prop them up level. Mark the positon of the 3 pads and the 3 posts and install them. Clamp the sleepers back in place and level, mark the posts and check them out, bolt the sleepers to the posts and tiedown the front to the pads. Install the middle sleepers on joist hangers, one extra at the flooring join. Screw down the floor and build the shed on top. Sikaflex the inside edge of the shed to stop leaks.
The only problem I've had in 3 years is people throwing hay against the wall and breaking the sealant. Apart from other advantages over concrete, the shed can be craned or slid onto a truck and removed as a complete unit (its on agistment land). I don't know what it will hold in weight, all I know is that SWMBO has it pretty full and there has been no movement whatsoever. Its a good method for garden shed size, I don't know how well it would scale up.

Cheers
Michael

My 2cents. The school that I am doing prac teaching at has their entire manual arts dept built on stumps. Hardwood floor with close joist spacing (350mm). Its great to work on and all the cabling can be run underneath direct to the machines. No power leads over the floors.
Another advantage is that you could build a trap door in the floor with a bin underneath, when you finished work for the day open the trap and sweep it all into the bin underneath!!

So no problems with a shed built on stumps then. Only problem now is the house I was looking at sold about two days after I looked at it and that was three days after it was listed , gotta be quick around here at the moment.