Just follow our trusty guide on how to move a shed.
Can you move a shed without dismantling.
You can move it by hand using pvc rollers or rent a forklift truck to drive the shed from one place to another.
Buying a used shed on ebay and you need to go and dismantle and collect it.
First things first anything that stands between your shed and its new location has got to go.
Moving house and taking your shed with you.
Dismantling the shed would require taking the shed apart into 7 individual panels moving them to the new location and then reassembling.
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.
Disassembling a wood shed to move it is usually not a practical solution.
If you need to move your garden shed there s a clever little technique you can follow.
And trolley jacks to lift it on to the rollers.
With some extra assistance a few simple tools and a large enough truck or trailer you can move your shed from your old home to your new one without a scratch.
It will take a lot of time and effort to disassemble and you will have to destroy some of the pieces in the process.
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.
An increasingly popular option with more expensive garden offices.
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.
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.
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.
Then you will have to spend even more time putting it back together on the other end.
It s much easier to move it in one piece.
Also as the roof was in two parts the.
Dig under the shed so you can place jacks to lift it.
These are the most common ways.
When i say the back end of the shed i mean the end of the shed away from the direction of travel.
We used drain pipe as rollers to shift this shed into a tight spot at the other side of the garden.
You ll also need some muscle.
There are several reasons why you might be dismantling a shed.