(UK) Large shed requires a base! Suggestions?

[AdamBeevers]

Good afternoon guys and gals.

Finally brought our first home 2 weeks ago and within 3 days managed to pick up a second hand 12x10 shed! £450 later (which I thought was good considering its log lap) I have myself a rather large shed in bits sat in the garden!



Next month I'm wanting to build a base before the weather goes rubbish but with DIY being new to myself (although I am a fully qualified car technician) I'm not too sure what to do for a base.



The shed is heavy and the contents even more so. The shed wont be there forever with the hope of a double garage one day but will be there for a good 5 years MINIMUM I'd imagine. So I'd rather not use concrete for that reason. I was hoping to use concrete blocks but I'm unsure for the following reason.



The area the shed is going to sit is mostly on a concrete pad, then a small section on soil. Now reading online people are saying to dig down when on soil, put a membrane down and use gravel etc but where I'm on different surfaces I'm unsure.



Will add a photo of said area in a moment which hopefully paints a clearer image of my situation.



Many thanks,

Adam

 

[ChevyEFI]

You'd have a bit of work to do concrete. And if the concrete needs removed at the end, you'd have a bit of work to remove it. Not enough, IMO, to be averse to that solution.

I can't like the idea of blocks or pavers, or gravel upon which hefty shelving may be placed. But you know your uses better than I.

 

[f121]

Looks like you've got a mix of existing concrete and then dirt against the fence. Probably the easiest/ cheapest option is to dig out the dirt by the fence and drop in some ex-council paving slabs, they come up on fb free all the time. Ideally you want to bed them onto a few inches of type 1 stone.

Nicer job would be to pull up the concrete that's there atm and lay a new slab, but that's going to be much more expensive, plus you have the cost of a skip to get rid of the old stuff

 

[AdamBeevers]

Looks like you've got a mix of existing concrete and then dirt against the fence. Probably the easiest/ cheapest option is to dig out the dirt by the fence and drop in some ex-council paving slabs, they come up on fb free all the time. Ideally you want to bed them onto a few inches of type 1 stone.

Nicer job would be to pull up the concrete that's there atm and lay a new slab, but that's going to be much more expensive, plus you have the cost of a skip to get rid of the old stuff

Thanks for the reply. Problem is the old slab isn’t level which is why I think blocks will be handy to get it away from the floor and to help levelling?
Thanks again