Shed floor ideas

[Ger34]

Hello all
Looking for some cost effective solutions to an issue ihave with a pre existing shed here in Ontario, Canada
Shed is 9x12... Max size allowedhere before a building permit is required
Previous owner built it with a mansard roof so you can stand upright on a second level. I havent clarified yet, however, i suspect if i add stairs, the township will want a permit.
Heres my issue

Previous owner laid a vinyl or plastic matt on the ground (looks like one of those containment matts u see under fuel tanks on farms) and placed 10" square beams on the matt (not pt, leftovers from back kitchen on the house) and my walls are starting to sag, making the doors hard to open

2 options i can think of here...

Bolt 2x8 to each stud from the outside and lift the shedup high enough to remove the old floor and support on cribbing until i pour a slab underneath

Or

Roll shed out of the way, pour conc columns in sonotubes, rebuild new floor out of 2x8pt and move shed back in place onnew floor

Thoughts?
Suggestions?
If i pour a slab... It will likely have to meet code if i ever decide to add to the shed...

Thanksin advance for your ideas

 

[speed bump]

How much do you like the shed? Unless you really want to pour a floor I would just shim it up and adjust them every couple of years as it settles.

 

[56Mark]

I tend to overkill things, but if I planned on having this thing for 20-30 years, I would do the sono-tubes and new floor. If it has a shorter life, I would do what was mentioned above and shim as/when needed.

Build the stairs....who's to know. I know there is a need and a reason for codes....but for a shed, I think that is over-reach. I don't take short cuts on building and repairs but I do on permits. Yeah, I have been caught once or twice on flip houses but around here they just make ya go get a permit and fuss and threaten, all bark.

 

[MikeF2316]

In my opinion all floors should be concrete. If you're going to go through the effort of moving the shed out of the way, then do a concrete slab.

Otherwise, I'd just redo the existing with pressure treated.

You can click the link in my sig to see which way I went.

 

[ducksface]

Tamped sand or dirt, and horse mats.
Cheap, easy, inpenatrable by vermin, nice on your feet, casters roll like gods, dropped things have about a 700% less chance of breakage, no splinters, no delamination, no inevitable wood faults, two hour install time. NO CODE TO DEAL WITH.
It's. A. Shed.

 

[djb25]

Tamped sand or dirt, and horse mats.
Cheap, easy, inpenatrable by vermin, nice on your feet, casters roll like gods, dropped things have about a 700% less chance of breakage, no splinters, no delamination, no inevitable wood faults, two hour install time. NO CODE TO DEAL WITH.
It's. A. Shed.

This is really interesting. I’ve never really heard of anyone doing this before, but it seems like it makes a lot of sense.

Where are you that you’ve done this?

I’m wondering how something like this would hold up in a PA winter.

Looks like I’m going to have to do some research...

 

[ducksface]

Punchline:
Think of how little a car tire inside a shed is affected.

Northern Arizona.
6500ft altitude, severe uv, Three days in a row last year at a low of -10°f, maybe 100 days(last year we had snow in August) of below freezing, thirty or less days of over 100°f to 112°f, 84 inches of snow overall last year in about 2 to 14 inch increments. (Arizona is not all what some people think it is.)
No problems at all.
Mats clean with a broom and water, a pressure washer or a carpet cleaner.
I believe in it enough I bought 1200sqft of them for an uncovered patio(I already had 300+sqft in assorted jobs and places). The guy blasting the rock for my water tanks said to give his father in law a chance at bidding stamped concrete instead of the mats and it was the same price so we did the concrete.
So
I have those mats EVERYWHERE.
My three point tractor stuff sits on it out in a field, it's covering a driveway, I donated 20 of them to the high school gym, sold 20 or so, cut them up to line dump trailers and trailer beds, made a front patio for a playhouse, just finished the wife's 400sqft garage with em and the 200sqft pump room. I dragged them out of the field, scrubbed them with a broom and they're like new.
I managed to put a fork through one of my last nine of them last week. It's the only damage I've ever done.
The last nine are mats I found scattered about place. They've been out in the weather for no less than four years, no more than seven. The mats which have always lived inside are as new.

Btw
The company selling them direct, not through tractor supply has a TEN YEAR WARRANTY(or used to)
I don't know if you buy the same mates through tractor supply if they have the same warranty.

I don't think much like reg'lar folk so sometimes a lengthy explanation is needed.

 

[djb25]

The company selling them direct, not through tractor supply has a TEN YEAR WARRANTY(or used to)
I don't know if you buy the same mates through tractor supply if they have the same warranty.

Where did you get them?