My shed build

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I need a shed in my garden to clear some space in my garage.
The garden is quite small, around 10m by 5m. It's surrounded on 2 sides by a large wall. The smaller wall is around 6ft tall and the larger wall is 9ft tall. At the moment, the whole garden is ground+plants (there's actually a lot more plants than the photos show - they were taken in winter). It's nice enough but it's too much for me to look after and get rid of all the weeds. So the plan is eventually to turf it. It's on a slope though so I want to level it off before I do that.
This is what it looks like now:

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Levelled off an area for the shed.

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I'm going to lift the concrete slab path around the garden and use them as a base.
 
Made a rough sketch of the main structure.
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Stud walls will be made from 2x4, corners are fence posts and it will be clad in featheredge.

I'll have an apex roof on it but I havn't designed that yet. Also not included in the drawing is: floor, door and noggings
 
I personally wouldn't build it on slams. Why not lay a concrete base?

I also wouldn't use fence posts. I've never seen a proper straight post. I think it'll cause too many headaches.
 
mushtafa said:
I personally wouldn't build it on slams. Why not lay a concrete base?
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Why wouldn't you want to build it on slabs?
I decided to go for slabs because of the better drainage, I dont want any puddles forming under the shed.

mushtafa said:
I also wouldn't use fence posts. I've never seen a proper straight post. I think it'll cause too many headaches.
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Do you think I'd be able to pull them straight? I'll be building each stud wall individually in my garage so they should all be square and solid before I put them in place. If I bolt each corner fence post on 2 sides to a nice square stud wall, will the post flex enough to straighten out?
 
Some progress:
Laid the slabs. The alignment is disappointing, I forgot about the lumps of concrete against the wall that I needed to avoid when I started laying them in the far corner and had to step them out half way. They are flat and level though and at least they'll be hidden under the shed out of sight.
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Next up is building a retaining wall along the edge of the area I excavated for the shed.
 
If that was me I would run a string line from top left slabs down to bottom left - mark it and cut off stepped bit's with cutting disc - same with other side.

Get some 2x2 timbers across to put shed on.

Level is one that count's though and you have done that. :)
 
I agree either cut them off using a disc cutter or alternatively fix a piece of wood from the bottom left up to the top left using the poking out slab in the bottom left to align it and then fill the gap with concrete, later removing the bit of wood. At least then you'll have a nice edge to infill up to. If you poke some long screws in just below the slabs that instep it'll help to tie the concrete in. Bit of a bodge fix though lol!
 
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The height of the rest of the garden in the background of those photos is going to be 30-40cm higher than the shed base once I've leveled it all off so I'm going to build the retaining wall for the height differences before I put up the shed.

The wall will eventually extend beyond the end of the foundation where I've stopped it with breeze blocks (you can see there is the beginning of a trench being dug there) but it needs to be at a lower level so it'll be concreted separately.
 
Got the rest of the foundations done and then the retaining wall in today.

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It'll eventually have some sort of render on it, but I havnt decided what yet.
 
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