Moving house and taking your shed with you.
Can you move a shed without dismantling.
All you need is an auto jack two wood tracks wood blocks and at least three pipes that are wider than the shed.
Buying a used shed on ebay and you need to go and dismantle and collect it.
These are the most common ways.
If you need to move your garden shed there s a clever little technique you can follow.
It sounded simple until it was seen that the bolts that held the shed together were rusted up and would need to be individually cut.
Now you are ready to actually move your shed place the pipes between the skids and tracks lower the shed down and push to move jack the back end of the shed up at least as high as the rollers and wood tracks combined then block it up in place.
If you re moving a large shed you will need a jack at each corner or you may only need 2 jacks for smaller sheds.
However if you have a bigger budget you can rent out a crane that ll pick up the whole structure and move it from one spot to another.
Dismantling the shed would require taking the shed apart into 7 individual panels moving them to the new location and then reassembling.
Disassembling a wood shed to move it is usually not a practical solution.
It will take a lot of time and effort to disassemble and you will have to destroy some of the pieces in the process.
But it is possible to move your shed with you in most cases as opposed to starting over from scratch.
When i say the back end of the shed i mean the end of the shed away from the direction of travel.
An increasingly popular option with more expensive garden offices.
And trolley jacks to lift it on to the rollers.
To move the shed a short distance create a conveyor belt out of sturdy pipes and boards and roll it to its new location then gently ease it down.
First things first anything that stands between your shed and its new location has got to go.
There are several reasons why you might be dismantling a shed.
You ll also need some muscle.
You can move it by hand using pvc rollers or rent a forklift truck to drive the shed from one place to another.
It s much easier to move it in one piece.
Then you will have to spend even more time putting it back together on the other end.
Selling an old shed that still has some life left in it to make way for a new one.
Just follow our trusty guide on how to move a shed.
Dig under the shed so you can place jacks to lift it.
