Your blog on deck skirting and storage shed installation have saved my wallet from serious damage come winter thaw this year. Thank you in advance for saving me the ridiculous amounts of $$ the DIY/how-to.com’s all wanted me to spend. I will update you with pics/comments as I tackle mine in Mar/Apr. I went to HS in Greece(Athena Trojans), and was pleasantly surprised to find your blog. Your ideas, humor, and lessons learned are benifitial to the rest of us out there trying to put a little sweat equity into our own projects. Please keep it up!!

Came across your blog and found the posts very informative. Great work!

I leveled the 4×4′s by either digging out the low spots or adding dirt under the high spots – of course putting a carpenter’s level on it every once in a while to see how I was doing. Having one long 4×4 laying from one end of your frame to the other also provides a good surface to lay a level on. That’s also how I got my stone to the right height and was able to ensure that the stone was level as we put it in.

When I put holes into the timber for the re-bar, I made them large enough so that the re-bar wasn’t really tight going through it. The re-bar is to keep the timbers from kicking outward from the pressure of the stone, the re-bar is not for pounding the timbers into the ground. The shed and it’s contents will keep the timbers in place just fine.

I did end up using the pea gravel poured over the drainage rock. It did tighten up the surface a little bit, but there is just a little squish to the floor, which doesn’t bother me. I would say if I had it to do over again, I would consider ordering a load of crusher run stone for the whole project. It is the stone used under black top and for stone driveways. That hardens like concrete.

I did not use anything over the stone. I just laid the plastic floor right on it. No complaints so far. I hope that answers your questions. Good luck with your project, let me know how it goes.