Moving a Garden Shed

[martinw]

Depends on how strongly it's built, but me and 3 mates lifted an (empty) 7'x5' fairly easily.

[Not_the_DJ]

Thanks guys, it almost looks feasilble. Adding a bit of temporary internal bracing is a great idea.

If anyone's near Kenilworth over the easter weekend there'll be a cuppa and a post-work pint in it for you

[Rocker]

Simple concept, extreme difficulty. You need to build a sort of railway line [standard housing rafters] from where the shed is now to where it will be placed. You need a lot of help to slide the shed onto the rails and then slide it along the rails to its new position. This is a job for a lot of bodies. Budget for a case of beer afterwards. Much simpler to dismantle the shed and rebuild it in its new location.

[Not_the_DJ]

I might get someone to film it so we can end up in one of those youtube 'fail' vids.

Does "you've been framed" still exist?

[amberlamps]

I might get someone to film it so we can end up in one of those youtube 'fail' vids.

now if I am taking the kids over to their Grandmas @ easter I am very tempted to make a detour and bring the GoPro along

[chillidoggy]

Best of luck is all I can really say. I tried moving this little bugger (4' square) about 8 yards in our garden last spring, and it was the devil's work.

Took three of us about 20 minutes to move it in the end, and it threatened to collapse around us the whole while. I know that isn't much help, but suggest as many pairs of hands as possible, all with heavy duty gloves ideally, plan ahead, be patient, and pray for the best!

I wasn't aware anyone still had outside crappers these days.

[ICBM]

Simple concept, extreme difficulty. You need to build a sort of railway line [standard housing rafters] from where the shed is now to where it will be placed. You need a lot of help to slide the shed onto the rails and then slide it along the rails to its new position. This is a job for a lot of bodies. Budget for a case of beer afterwards. Much simpler to dismantle the shed and rebuild it in its new location.

That's nonsense - that's exactly how I did it, all by myself. I am 5'6" and weigh under ten stone!

You just have to move it very small amounts at a time, one corner after the other so it sort of walks along the rails one side at a time, about an inch a go. Just take your time and it will get there in the end.

*Far* easier than trying to dismantle an old shed that will probably fall apart or at least be difficult to re-assemble if you try.

If you have as many as four bodies you can just pick the thing up and carry it, they're not that heavy.


By the way, a few weeks before that I moved an entire brick garage about forty feet, also on my own. Not joking! It was demolished so really it was just a lot of bricks and a bit of scrap timber - I had to move it all from behind the new house extension to the front where they could be taken away in a truck. Three tons or so in total... six bricks at a time. You stack them up and lift them against your chest. It wasn't hard work, just took time - about eight hours spread over a weekend. Preparation (a little platform to stack them on before lifting to make it easy and avoid bending down) and patience gets the job done.

I kept the roof joists for moving the shed .

[Viz]

I think it looks perfectly nice where it is. That's a superb lawn you've got by the way and I like your new fence and that lovely pea gravel and slabs. And your decking. Shit I love your whole garden! Is that a lamp post?

I moved a 6x4 on my own, from one side of the house to the other, it was a piece of piss. Absolutely simple as anything. So you should be ok with 2 people, seriously. Just give it a go.

[jim_branning]

Anyone done that?

Mrs DJ is forming a plan to move our shed over the easter weekend. It's currently sat on paving slabs halfway down our garden, but we now want to move it to a patio area we've got, about 20 meters away.


It's a decent size, maybe 8ft by 6ft (yes I'm mixing units here), so I'm not totally convinced that we can just rope enough mates into the project and lift it up without dismanting it.

Anyone tried something like this?

I've got mental images of us either destroying it by trying to move it whole, or destorying it by dismantling.

*Edit*

It's not just lawn between the two spot either, the patio it's going on is raised up a bit, and there's a veg bed with railway sleaper 'walls' to get over....hmmm

yeah i moved one last year to the other side of the garden and up onto the decking to make space to erect a new massive fuck-off sized shed.

did it singlehandedly. took the heavy stuff out then just dragged and pushed the fucker using some planks as rails for it to slide along. they only weight a couple of hudred pounds or whatever.

[jim_branning]

You just have to move it very small amounts at a time, one corner after the other so it sort of walks along the rails one side at a time

correct, that's how to do it. walk it along.