Ten Things You Should Do And Not Do While Moving Your Garden Shed

"You have a garden shed and you intend to move it to your new house a couple of blocks away

. Perplex and bewildered you think that this task is meant only for Hercules. Well there are ten different things which you should do along with ten different dont that you should follow if you not wish to atlas expensive movers and pay through your nose.

1) Before moving you will have to dig the foundation of your existing garden shed. Observe if your garden shed is carved out of wood and was placed there a while ago the foundation beams are bound to rot if not cedar wood or plastic. If the foundation beams are weak try to replace them with metallic or plastic beams depending upon the weight and size of the structure.

2) Prepare the base for the garden shed. Concrete or tiled concrete slabs are widely appreciated concept as a base for garden sheds. Raw ground has the danger of loosing your screw and bolts also termite and other incest would find a free entry into your newly installed garden shed.

3) You will need atleast 2 to 3 people for lifting up your garden shed. Employing hydraulic jacks fix firmly in to the ground is one of the faster and an in genuine way to lift up your garden shed.

4) Once the garden shed is lifted make sure all the joints are tightly conjucted with the aid of screw and bolts.

5) You can either pass wooden rollers or plastic pipes underneath the two supporting beams as wheels for rolling on the ground or you can also fix small iron rollers or wheels readily available in the market with the help of a drilling machines.

6) Make sure that the balance of the garden shed is equally distributed on the two poles or two pairs of iron wheels. If the weight is not distributed equally the centre of gravity might shift out side structure and the structure itself can collapse out of its own weight.

7) Make sure that the inside is planked with wooden slabs in order to ensure its collectivity of this structure. These wooden planks are temporary arrangements which can later be easily detached from the structure once it has reached its destination.

8) Attached to steel hooks or either sides of the garden shed, these hold hooks hold paramount importance while shifting the structure.

9) You can either use a pickup van or even car to attach your garden shed via jute or a plastic rope in normal standard cases, however if the structure occupy large space or have a huge weight iron chains can easily be attached to the metallic angle incorporated in the garden sheds.

10) Once you have reached your destination carefully place the garden shed on the concrete angles by either using a tripod crane or gently sliding the wheels on the slab and removing the wheels once the work is done.

Your garden shed is now ready to be bolted firmly into the concrete already prepared for it.

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by: Jason Beckford

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