Saving Storage Shed...

[gmack5]

We just bought a house and the Storage Shed is about to fall down! The darn thing has a Dirt Floor (it's a "Pole Building") and I'd like to install a Concrete floor, if I can figure a way to do it without taking down the whole building and starting from scratch.

The other way would be to install a "floating" wood floor.

Anybody got any ideas???

[jAngiel]

I'd get some chat (crushed stone, whatever you call it) and spread it out fairly evenly and then rent a compacter. If you mix it with some portland cement prior to spreading out, then compact it and spray it down a little with water it hardens up really nice for a shed. It'll withstand mowers and lawn tractors with ease. Works for fence posts too.

[gmack5]

[quote=jAngiel]I'd get some chat (crushed stone, whatever you call it) and spread it out fairly evenly and then rent a compacter. If you mix it with some portland cement prior to spreading out, then compact it and spray it down a little with water it hardens up really nice for a shed.quote]

How much Portland Cement would I have to add to the crushed stone mix to have a good base?

[DUD]

George
The concrete companies around here sell a product they call washout. It contains gravel sand and cement that was a bad mix. I bought some for the driveway on the farm, we spread it out and smoothed it down, the next time it rained it solidified. It is still there since 1978. Bill

[JR]

Another alternative is QuickCrete, if you can find a dealer in your area. One of our local rental yards carries this product. It is mixed at the yard to your spec (wet, dry, whatever), then loaded in bucket on a trailer. The bucket holds a couple of yards and can be towed by a pickup truck or SUV. It can be backed up to your location and tipped in.

It still requires some effort to spread the concrete and smooth it, and building forms, of course. But it's a lot easier than mixing it yourself and hauling it in a wheel barrow.

JR

[91FE]

Another alternative is QuickCrete...

sounds interesting. same guys as the bagged concrete and mortor?

[JR]

sounds interesting. same guys as the bagged concrete and mortor?

Yep, pretty sure. Here's a link to my local rental yard's page for concrete:
http://www.listerpartyrentals.com/cg...Y%20THE%20YARD

[LinuxRandal]

We just bought a house and the Storage Shed is about to fall down! The darn thing has a Dirt Floor (it's a "Pole Building") and I'd like to install a Concrete floor, if I can figure a way to do it without taking down the whole building and starting from scratch.

The other way would be to install a "floating" wood floor.

Anybody got any ideas???

How is a concrete floor going to help it from falling down? Why is it falling down, is it rotton, or have the posts not been placed far enough in the ground?
Also remember that the reason some people don't use concrete, it affects your tax basis (permanent structure, verses temp outbuilding).

[jAngiel]

[QUOTE=gmack5
How much Portland Cement would I have to add to the crushed stone mix to have a good base?[/QUOTE]

I did a floor for a 10 x 14 foot shed and used about one bag of portland (maybe less as I think I had some left over). It doesn't take much. It's pretty much the same thing mixing concrete due to the rocks and the dust and sand that come in the chat. I tried to do a ratio of 1 shovel full of portland to about 5 or six of the chat. You could probably go a little more portland or a little less. That ratio worked for me.

I mixed it up in a wheelbarrow, probably even stretched it some when I thought I may not have enough to complete the floor but I only purchased one bag, maybe 80#. The chat was only about $16 a cubic yard around here. I used the small stone, as I think they have different sizes of crushed rock.