All right, moving again. Never able to tick all the boxes. Nice house but no garage, got an accessible backyard though. Thinking of getting one of those easy to put up garden sheds without foundation to house my Sportster? Anybody got experience or recommendation with one of these?

I used one for a while before I got the money for a larger shed. Where I am you need a permit for anything larger than 3 metres by 3 metres (even if it's a self assemble kit) so I couldn't go larger than that.

Then I was told that not having a concrete base to the shed I risked increased rusting because the shed floor (ground) stays moist (dunno how true that is but it worried me) so I went to the trouble of boxing up an area a bit larger than 3 metres by 3 metres and and concreted a slab and started looking how the shed went together.

Then I realized the shed I'd bought had a single door on the front and it wasn't really wide enough for my bike, so I packed it all back up, took it back to the store and they swapped it for a 3m x 3m with a double door.

I eventually assembled the shed (after re drilling about a third of the holes that didn't line up) and dyna bolted it to the (fairly rough concrete base).

Then I realised that there was a 50 mm lip where the edge of the concrete was and a metal ridge where the bottom frame of the shed was, now I could ride over that but I'd need a little bit of velocity and the shed was only JUST deeper than my bike and I was worried I'd end up not being able to stop in time once the bike bumped over the edge (I only had about 30cm spare).

So I went and built an earth ramp about a metre long and a metre wide leading up to the edge of the concrete slab so I could idle into the shed.

All good finally I thought but after about 6 months of regular use the thin frame doors started to sag and became a pain in the arse to open and close.

I persisted for about 3 years but I was very glad when I got a real shed with a pair of roller doors.

So yeah it is possible but a lot of those cheap shed kits are crap and it's not as simple to do as it seems at first.

 

I think Geoff is right about the moisture thing with no floor. You might get away with paver's over a base laid on plastic.

As for a slab, I'd put the shed up first and then pour the concrete inside, but of course, you'd need to address all the points Geoff makes about access and so on....

I used a simple garden shed with pavers for a floor for years ,, Then thought fuck it its not good enough for my bike ,, so i up graded it to under the carport , with a cover on .. Then my rotty decided he was gonna show the intruder who was boss , and kept pissing on the same wheel ,, then the wheel started to rust ,, So i moved house to a place with a garage .

Then the rotty with nothing to show his dominance over started biting people including me ... So i fucked the dog off , and sit here quite often thinking , wish i was still in my last house , i liked it there .

Don't buy a a cheap chinese flat pack shed.
I had an absco it was good easy and quick to assemble from bunnings. Large 600x600 50mm thick pavers work well i sprinkled a bit of cement under them and in the gaps wich worked well.

I ended up getting a four car garage, you can never have a shed to Big.

P.s have at least one Whirly Bird on the roof, otherwise you'll have condensation in there.

Consider a 40ft shipping container for around $2500 delivered. Perfect portable shed workshop and very secure.