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Can anyone suggest the best way to fix the shed I am constructing to the concrete slab?
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Frame fixing is as good as anything.

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If I get you right, surely the weight of the shed will be sufficient to stay in place on the slabs. :scratch:

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If I get you right, surely the weight of the shed will be sufficient to stay in place on the slabs.
. It mite be on a hill never know could slip off :wink:


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I've seen bigger things than a garden shed take off in a storm.

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thescruff wrote:
I've seen bigger things than a garden shed take off in a storm.


Yeh possibly. However once his shed is stored it would need to be some storm.

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If the concrete is good stuff, you could use frame fixers, like these
Drill a hole and screw it in. No marking, moving, drilling, plugging, moving back, lining up...

Just drill a hole, and screw it straight in.
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Thanks for all your replies.
I should have explained more clearly I have laid a concrete slab 4 inch thick and built a frame to the dimensions of the slab. I want to attach the shed frame directly to the concrete slab. I intend to have the concrete slab as the shed floor(there will not be a wooden floor) as I want to store a ride on mower in the shed.
I have been recommended thunderbolts. Does anyone have experience of these. I think they seem fairly similar to frame fixings.
The dimensions of shed are 22 x 10 ft.
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Don't forget to put some form of DPC between the timber and the concrete. I personally would also lay a row of bricks around the perimeter to site the shed onto. Its not essential, but it may help to prevent any potential water/rot problems later on.

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I've seen bigger things than a garden shed take off in a storm.


I once had a two bay oak framed garage slid backwards in one severe storm. It move approx 600mm!! I had thought that my labourer had fixed it down, and he said that he thought that I had. It took a bloody lot of effort to get it back into position! :lol:


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