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How to level a sloped backyard for a shed entrance

Building a retaining wall can eliminate the step-up lip at a shed door, creating a flush entrance on a sloping yard. Homeowners often weigh materials like bricks or 4x4 timbers to change the grade and keep water from sloping toward patios.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    concreting 4x4 posts in the ground and installing pressure treated pine 2x6s
  2. 2
    using cinder blocks instead of wood
  3. 3
    filling with gravel and ensuring no dirt touches the lumber
  4. 4
    Using pavers
  5. 5
    Applying amateur concrete solutions

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“Hi all, I have a sloping backyard where I built a shed.”source ↗

“I want it to end around the doors so I don’t have a lip to walk onto as I enter the shed.”source ↗

“I am looking for suggestions on how I should do this (my initial thought was bricks and then I thought maybe 4x4’s would be more straight forward).”source ↗

geologizerrr · r/Landscaping · 4 upvotes

“Is there a DIY way to change the grade right here? The concrete is sloping towards the concrete patio here (does not go down to the basement/not the foundation. Just the little concrete porch) and I'm wondering if there's a solution using pavers or some super not professional concrete 🤣”source ↗

bitsbybones · r/homeowners · 2 upvotes

Where this came up

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