Yes, we here in the Great White North have some experience with frost heaves. Anyone who has travelled northeast out of Grande Prairie, AB can tell you all about them. Kept trying to bring home a carton of dairy cream, kept arriving with butter!
The ground does move around a bit from season to season but aside from readjusting some door latches to accommodate, it is not too bad here at our place. Yes the existing shed is on 6X8 skids on a base of compacted 3/4 crush gravel. I plan on doing the same for the "Bigger Half" of my backyard motorcycle tinkering shop and man cave/hide-out. I am more worried about wind here in sunny west side Nampa. I am thinking of cementing in large galvanized steel anchors with 90 degree bends, sort of hooks, to grapple the outside edges of the outer two skids. These suckers are left over from a construction project and are four feet long. I figure if they are stuck 3 1/2 feet into concrete poured into 6" diameter holes with the bottoms "belled", the darn thing should stay stuck to the ground in all situations except tornado or hurricane. Even then, at least the skids would probably still be there in the morning.
It's all speculation now as I don't plan on turning sod till next summer anyways. Gotta learn though. Study the heck out of it, then build when ready. Kinda like measure twice, cut once, nes pas?
rider75
The ground does move around a bit from season to season but aside from readjusting some door latches to accommodate, it is not too bad here at our place. Yes the existing shed is on 6X8 skids on a base of compacted 3/4 crush gravel. I plan on doing the same for the "Bigger Half" of my backyard motorcycle tinkering shop and man cave/hide-out. I am more worried about wind here in sunny west side Nampa. I am thinking of cementing in large galvanized steel anchors with 90 degree bends, sort of hooks, to grapple the outside edges of the outer two skids. These suckers are left over from a construction project and are four feet long. I figure if they are stuck 3 1/2 feet into concrete poured into 6" diameter holes with the bottoms "belled", the darn thing should stay stuck to the ground in all situations except tornado or hurricane. Even then, at least the skids would probably still be there in the morning.
It's all speculation now as I don't plan on turning sod till next summer anyways. Gotta learn though. Study the heck out of it, then build when ready. Kinda like measure twice, cut once, nes pas?
rider75
