Demolish brick shed - good idea?

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Hi all. Currently assessing my next project in the house and have my eye on a large block shed that's sitting in my garden. We unfortunately have a North facing garden,but to the west there is nothing blocking the light as we are the end of the row. I can see the sunlight drenching the grass right beside the deck, but the deck itself is blocked by the shed.

Shed contains oil boiler which I plan to replace and not much else. From a value point of view, would removing it be a bad idea. And if I was to remove it, how much work would I be looking at? Digging out foundations needed etc? Tks

Lumen

What's the plan for the boiler?

Re: foundations, surely you'll need to remove them if you want to grass it over, but the effort depends on how solid they are. I broke up a "slab" and block piers for an oil tank the other day in a few mins with an SDS drill, into small enough pieces to chuck into a skip, but that was only about 75mm of old crumbly concrete laid straight on soil with no reinforcement or sub-base.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Lumen wrote: »

What's the plan for the boiler?

Re: foundations, surely you'll need to remove them if you want to grass it over, but the effort depends on how solid they are. I broke up a "slab" and block piers for an oil tank the other day in a few mins with an SDS drill, into small enough pieces to chuck into a skip, but that was only about 75mm of old crumbly concrete laid straight on soil with no reinforcement or sub-base.

New boiler in a purpose built enclosure closer to the house. Want to minimize the run of pipe under the ground outside

listermint

Surely you should complete the new boiler first before contemplating the shed destruction...

zl1whqvjs75cdy

listermint wrote: »

Surely you should complete the new boiler first before contemplating the shed destruction...

Gonna do them both at once. Well boiler first and shed immediately after.