Building shed against earth bank

49801

Hi folks looking for your recommendations

Have a cubby ally between barna shed and earth bank. It’s a nice shelter spot. Mainly for bikes, scooters and garden tool storage

Any recommendations on approach. Had been thinking of just a leanto roof but now thinking better to have walls and keep weather and damp out.

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49801

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listermint

Surely a lean to roof would just poor water on to your earth bank eroding it?


Hard to advise without pictures.

GreeBo

You are still going to need a gutter and some sort of drain to take away the water, otherwise you will end up with a mess.
Though, to be honest, I think you are going to end up with a sticky mess anyway!
Are you planning flooring?

Whats going to stop water streaming down the bank into the new area?

Is it just a mound of earth or is that the natural ground level?
Its looks like the natural ground level, so now you need to worry about that bank collapsing onto someone.

listermint

hmm for me its a reward versus effort scenario.

Theres not alot of space there tbh for the effort required to get it right.

Id just use it to store barrows or outsidey things

jack of all

Looks like an ideal sump for a lot of unwanted surface water run-off the next time we get a period of prolonged heavy rain. Maybe put some crushed stone in as a base and use as listermint suggests.

49801

Ah ye lot are an awful lot of nah sayers :-)

Had thought concrete base... but thinking same as barna shed would be just as handy with boards on top of concrete blocks.

Its natural ground level dry enough. Not a mound and soil is shale stoney stuff. Not worried about collapse but did cross my mind alright. Water does not come off there now.

Calahonda52

Naysayers!, another one for the ignore list

GreeBo

49801 wrote: »

Ah ye lot are an awful lot of nah sayers :-)

Had thought concrete base... but thinking same as barna shed would be just as handy with boards on top of concrete blocks.

Its natural ground level dry enough. Not a mound and soil is shale stoney stuff. Not worried about collapse but did cross my mind alright. Water does not come off there now.

How long has the ground been open like that?
Water follows the path of least resistance, I can't see why that won't be down towards your shed, unless you are sloping the ground away, but even then it's going to soak out imo.

Frankly it looks dangerous and I wouldn't have kids near the top or the bottom.

49801

GreeBo wrote: »

How long has the ground been open like that?
Water follows the path of least resistance, I can't see why that won't be down towards your shed, unless you are sloping the ground away, but even then it's going to soak out imo.

Frankly it looks dangerous and I wouldn't have kids near the top or the bottom.

Ground like that since 2003. Engineer never mentioned it either when surveys done.