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JohnVerSteeg OP t1_j1591yi wrote

Reply to comment by Novaleaf in I built a shed this summer by JohnVerSteeg

Thanks for the feedback!

  • Yes, in hindsight, I wish I had poured the concrete a little bit taller. It's sitting about an inch and a half above the soil on the uphill side. At the time, my logic was to try and make it convenient for a riding lawn mower to drive in and out, but I could have made it taller and made a ramp...
  • Yes, the bottom plate is pressure treated #2 pine, and there is sill foam between it and the concrete
  • I had no idea that flashing should be put around the bottom of the wall osb. Today I learned! We're planning on landscaping around the shed summer, my backup plan if water becomes an issue is to make a trench around the shed first, filling it with stone, then covering it with landscaping fabric and some wood chips or pea gravel.
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Novaleaf t1_j15x8dl wrote

if it's easy to remove the outer sheathing, you could simply wrap membrane around, ok if it's over the housewrap.

But the most important part is the pressure treated plate. Since you do have that you are most likely good to go. Especially since you have such wide eaves (which is really great, props to you for doing that), which will help keep water away from the walls so probably no problem would ever occur.

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JohnVerSteeg OP t1_j15z98o wrote

Thank you for the insight!

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Novaleaf t1_j18tugm wrote

if you do wrap membrane around, be sure that it extends below the floor, wrapping the outside of the osb and your foundation. More than 2 inches would be ideal, even if that means digging down a little.

Again though, the lack of membrane might not impact your shed's lifespan much, just that it's "supposed to be done" due to water splashing and wicking up. Your choice of exterior sheathing looks like splashing wouldn't be an issue anyway.

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