Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 5Dec 02, 2010 12:52 pm d@n That's one really thick slab just for a shed. Yeah it is quite ridiculous - I think the previous owners did it that way because they couldn't be bothered digging into the slope for a slab.. Either way, whether we end up with a play area or a garden bed of some sort it will be covered up - just not cost effective to remove it. Gives me a good project to work on over my Xmas holidays!! Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 6Dec 02, 2010 10:17 pm Yeah raised sleeper veggie beds would be good, that way the kids & their friends won't kick balls into them like they would at ground level. Also you could cover it in soil and mulch making a small natural "hilly" area where the little bloke can run cars down the bunps and just play around with rocks sticks and stuff. I am making an informal Aussie bush area in one corner of my yard where the little fellas can run crazy, dig, throw and play with bugs to their hearts content. Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 7Dec 03, 2010 3:22 pm I would keep the soil off the fence, by putting a sleeper along the back as well. Then fill with soil and use as a garden bed /vege patch. You could put timber decking over the slab a make a cubby/ pergola. There are links somewhere to do that -https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=41052 Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 8Dec 03, 2010 7:10 pm Why not just move your other shed over and put that on the slab ? Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 9Dec 04, 2010 3:37 pm Cabinfever Why not just move your other shed over and put that on the slab ? The green shed was just put up on a new paved slab as the concrete slab is massively cracked and has huge movement in it... Re: Covering up a concrete slab - advice & Photoshop Guru he 10Dec 04, 2010 10:43 pm Well, if it were me I'd put the new shed on the old slab. If the old slab needs a bit of fixing, or even just decking roughly over the top, so be it. The new shed seems to be hogging a whole lot of space anyway. Option 2 is just to wait until the money or opportunity comes to get the old slab ripped out. I had a somewhat similar situation when I moved into my current house: there was a big pen structure in the backyard. I paid a friend of a friend to come along with his small excavator and rip it out. It made a big mess of the yard in the process, but in the end it was worth it - the yard was "set free". Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie got it. thanks. I was looking for word ' Adobe' and added filter. all good. 12 14493 Yes, unless you are in a low intensity rainfall area or the area is protected from rain. Do you have access to NCC Part 2 or can you download it? I can email you a copy… 10 12539 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5180 |