Shed Base

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Hi,

I've just bought my brand new House and have also bought a Shed as well, it's a 6x8 plastic Keter Shed.

I need a base building for it at the bottom of the garden, it's a slightly sloped lawn, I have had a quote for £720 which includes

8ft x 6ft base.

Dig out and dispose of soil.

Fit 4 x 2.4 sleepers around edge of base.

Fill area with millwaste and compact.

Lay 12 x 2x2 ft slabs for base.

Lay 4 x450mmx 450mm buff slabs across front of base.

Price includes all materials, labour, tool hire and removal of waste from site.


Does this sound reasonable, or should I get a couple more quotes? I don't know anything about building bases for Sheds but I wasn't expecting it would be several hundred pounds.

The guy also said it would be better to have to the Shed sideways along the bottom of the garden with the side facing the house as there would be less slope to work with. I would prefer it with the Shed door facing the house.
 
That's a lot of money for something that should only be a relatively quick concrete slab laying.

Get some more quotes. It's always best to have several as the prices can vary a lot.

I would have thought half of that would be much more reasonable, especially where you are in the country (No London/SE premium).
 
Does that quote include all the materials - if so snap his hand off

It's amazing how much people underestimate the costs of today.
 
That's a pretty involved shed base. Considering you could be simply laying a few paving slabs on a flat lawn, there's a lot more involved.

Does it need to be that solid a base for a small shed? Obviously the slope is the real challenge.
 
The quote says it includes all materials. I don't know anything about Shed bases, the Shed itself is a 6x8 Keter one.
 
Depends whether you want a proper base and what you want it to be. I mean you could just plonk it on the soil and that's that. Use a few tent pegs to hold it down. Let the grass inside die! Or you could cut a hole in the lawn, fill it with gravel, plonk it down. Do it their way. Or cut a hole and fill it with concrete. I mean really no base is needed but if you want one then there are different types and costs. I guess their price is not unreasonable provided the end result is level with the lawn.
 
smr said:
Hi,

I've just bought my brand new House and have also bought a Shed as well, it's a 6x8 plastic Keter Shed.

I need a base building for it at the bottom of the garden, it's a slightly sloped lawn, I have had a quote for £720 which includes

8ft x 6ft base.

Dig out and dispose of soil.

Fit 4 x 2.4 sleepers around edge of base.

Fill area with millwaste and compact.

Lay 12 x 2x2 ft slabs for base.

Lay 4 x450mmx 450mm buff slabs across front of base.

Price includes all materials, labour, tool hire and removal of waste from site.


Does this sound reasonable, or should I get a couple more quotes? I don't know anything about building bases for Sheds but I wasn't expecting it would be several hundred pounds.

The guy also said it would be better to have to the Shed sideways along the bottom of the garden with the side facing the house as there would be less slope to work with. I would prefer it with the Shed door facing the house.
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Seems a good quote to me, but ensure they put it the way round you want it and not how they want it. At the end of the day it’s your garden and shed.
 
Seems good to me. The fact they listed the job details also tells me they are serious about doing thr work.

Not just 'yeah that will be a grand. Sweet cheers'
 
Hmmmm, I don't know, it seems a bit pricey to me. I've just done one myself, it may not be quite a robust as what you've been quoted for, but as a comparison:

12 2x2ft slabs - Free from Facebook, people cant give them away
2 bags of cement - £8
10 bags of sand - £20
Removed turf - Garden waste bin
Removed soil - added as top-soil elsewhere in garden

Leveled the area, compacted, 3cm deep dry mix of sand/cement, layed slabs, pointed. Seems perfectly ample for a shed base. Although I am no expert.

So £30 and a weekend.
 
topgun06 said:
Hmmmm, I don't know, it seems a bit pricey to me. I've just done one myself, it may not be quite a robust as what you've been quoted for, but as a comparison:

12 2x2ft slabs - Free from Facebook, people cant give them away
2 bags of cement - £8
10 bags of sand - £20
Removed turf - Garden waste bin
Removed soil - added as top-soil elsewhere in garden

Leveled the area, compacted, 3cm deep dry mix of sand/cement, layed slabs, pointed. Seems perfectly ample for a shed base. Although I am no expert.

So £30 and a weekend.
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But you got stuff for free and not paying labour costs.......also you had somewhere els to put the top soil, the OP may not, so it needs removing to elsewhere
 
Also the OP has just bought a new build so may not have any of the tools needed at all. How did you compact your earth?

So we can safely say the price would lie somewhere between £30 and £720 :P
 
Welshman said:
I was quoted 2k to build 4.5mtr x 4.5mtr deck structure.......I did it for less than 1k by myself, but not everyone has the skills and time
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LuckyBenski said:
Also the OP has just bought a new build so may not have any of the tools needed at all. How did you compact your earth?

So we can safely say the price would lie somewhere between £30 and £720 :p
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I borrowed a mate's tamper. So yeah haha, more cost saving there. But OP could even hire a whacker and still save loads. I'm the sorta person who would always look to do things myself, learn a bit, add to the tools arsenal and save cash.

All this is irrelevant if OP doesn't care for doing it themselves though. Could be the last thing they'd wanna spend their weekend doing. :p

It's just my view from maybe another perspective :D
 
topgun06 said:
I borrowed a mate's tamper. So yeah haha, more cost saving there. But OP could even hire a whacker and still save loads. I'm the sorta person who would always look to do things myself, learn a bit, add to the tools arsenal and save cash.

All this is irrelevant if OP doesn't care for doing it themselves though. Could be the last thing they'd wanna spend their weekend doing. :p

It's just my view from maybe another perspective :D
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Agreed.....and that’s what I already said
 
Sod that, get some concrete fence posts, bag of premix concrete and a bag stones, mix it up drop the posts flat trying to keep a level, plonk shed on top, £150 and a days work yourself.
 
It sounds like well designed solid base. Are you planning to store anything seriously heavy in there?

Going over some of the comments, if you have flowerbeds in the garden you could dispose of the soil there, and just get rid of your turf through your garden waste. I'm not sure how much digging the hole out and disposal yourself would reduce the quote by.

Ultimately depends whether you're any good at DIY, or would absolutely never take on a project like that.
 
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