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Killingtime

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Hi all
After moved house in October I have been without a shed to turne in. I am now a a point where I can start to build one ( iv had permishion from the wife!). I have gone through lots of threads here to try and make up my mind on construction and iv not quite found all the answers. The main structure I know roughly what I'm doing but it's the floor I can't make my mind up on.
A nice thick concreat slab would be great but would be biblical to do as access is not great.
Currently I'm torn between
2 small pourd concreat slabs to bolt the lath to that are independent to an all timber shed or
A heavy all timber frame floor and some thick sheet on top.
My concern with all timber is it resonating and potentionally amplifying the vibrations.
Am I worrying about noise too much? Over thinking things? Under thinking and so on.
Advice would be great thanks
Tom
 
I have a wooden floor in my shed set on a concrete base but I cut out a hole in the floor and filled it with concrete to bolt my lathe down then put the rubber floor fatigue mats down all over the floor nice and cosy
 
Hi Tom,
In my last shed I made the concrete slab (about 2inches thick on compacted hardcore) a smidge smaller than the shed floor, screwed timber bearers into it all around the edge of the slab with a DPM between. Then the shed was constructed onto the bearers as if it was the shed floor section, effectively missing out the delivered wooden floor altogether.

I'm pretty tall and the extra ceiling height was useful too.
HTH
Jon
 
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