Avoiding hed base rot
 

Hi


If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground, whats
the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

I dont really want another type of base as time will be very short on
this one.


thanks, NT

Avoiding hed base rot
 

wrote:
Hi


If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground,
whats the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

Buy a roll of DPC and sit it on that.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

Avoiding hed base rot
 

Avoiding hed base rot
 

Avoiding hed base rot
 

The Medway Handyman wrote:
wrote:
If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground,
whats the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

Buy a roll of DPC and sit it on that.

Similar: build it in a paddling pool. If it's on DPM then trapped
water can't escape, you're better off just laying it on slabs (a
poor method in itself).

Avoiding hed base rot
 

Dave wrote:
wrote:
If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground, whats
the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

Sit it on loose cross members that have been tanalised, that way, the
air can circulate.

That is also OK.

Avoiding hed base rot
 

Chris Bacon wrote:
Dave wrote:
wrote:
If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground, whats
the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

Sit it on loose cross members that have been tanalised, that way, the
air can circulate.

That is also OK.

Apologies for the double-barrel: you could then sit use DPM (or off-
cuts of roofing felt) on the bearers, under the "base".

Avoiding hed base rot
 

expressed precisely :
Hi


If I sit a wood framed shed onto paving slabs laid on the ground, whats
the best way to stop or reduce rot of the sole plate? Will use
tanaliased wood, but where it touches the slabs there wont be any air
movement.

I dont really want another type of base as time will be very short on
this one.


thanks, NT

Raise the hut base on bricks, blocks or etc. .. In fact anything
impervious to water which lift it above the water which is bound to
collect on the slabs. Movement of air is underneath is also important.

--

Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

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from Harry Bloomfield contains these words:

Raise the hut base on bricks, blocks or etc. .. In fact anything
impervious to water which lift it above the water which is bound to
collect on the slabs. Movement of air is underneath is also important.

Remember to leave gaps for the hedgehogs to get in an out of the void
underneath.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

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Guy King wrote:


Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

LOL

Paranoid as you are, just who is this man behind the curtain?

Dave

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The message
from Dave contains these words:

Paranoid as you are, just who is this man behind the curtain?

You've not had to sit through Wizard of Oz recently, have you?

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

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Guy King wrote:
The message
from Dave contains these words:

Paranoid as you are, just who is this man behind the curtain?

You've not had to sit through Wizard of Oz recently, have you?

OK I get that - but why Skipweasel?


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

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The message
from "The Medway Handyman" contains
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OK I get that - but why Skipweasel?

Oh, I was (and occasionally still am) known for finding interesting
things in skips.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

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Guy King wrote:
The message
from "The Medway Handyman" contains
these words:

OK I get that - but why Skipweasel?

Oh, I was (and occasionally still am) known for finding interesting
things in skips.

boo hoo, usenet isnt revolving around me today. Just beacuse I asked a
question I expect everyone to think about me and me alone. If you dont,
I'll have to complain that its off topic or unhelpful. I've been
inexplicably sucked into a thought vortex where only I count.


NT :)