Three Reasons Why You Want A Precast Concrete Floor For Your "She-Shed"
Moms and wives are just exhausted. They deserve as much "me-time" as their spouses and children can spare. When it comes right down to it, moms, you deserve your own "she-shed." This is a new-fangled term that describes a nice little place you can go outside your home, but not too far away. There you can relax, read, and do all of the fun "non-mom" things you enjoy. If you are going to purchase and install a she-shed either for yourself or for your well-deserving wife/mother, you will need a slab of pre-case concrete first. Here is why.
1. Shed Floors Are Constructed of Wood
Imagine dropping the wood floor of your new she-shed right onto the wet ground. How long do you think that shed will last before the floor is rotten out and destroyed? Not very long, that is for certain. If you have a slab of pre-cast concrete on the ground, and then put the shed on top of that, the floor of the shed will last much longer than it would if it were sitting on bare ground.
2. You Can Keep the Shed from Shifting, Flooding, and Sinking
With the exception of extreme floods, you can keep the shed from shifting in the ground in different directions, flooding the interior, and sinking downward. The concrete slab underneath provides the firm structure and support a shed would need, especially when the ground you have in your area is already soft and/or quite loamy. The slab would elevate the wooden floor base to help keep it from mild floods too.
3. All of Your Decorations, Projects, and Hobbies Would Remain Dry
If you work with cloth, paint, canvas, paper, yarn, needlepoint, or plan to keep shelves of books in your she-shed, you want to be sure these items are safe as well. With the protection that the concrete slab would already provide for the shed floor, that protection extends to your decorations, your projects, and your hobbies as well. Everything inside your she-shed would remain your very own clean, quiet, and comfortable space because of the underlying support and protection of the concrete slab.
Ordering and Installing the Precast Concrete Slab
First and foremost, get the measurements of your shed's floor. You want to know exactly what size of a concrete slab to order so that the shed is not sitting on something too big or too small. Install the slab on your property via a concrete contractor first, and then you are free to drop your she-shed right on top of that.
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