With the plastic summerhouse base delivered to his home, Lewis could begin his installation whenever he was ready before building his summerhouse. He decided to take on the entire installation the following Saturday. 

Lewis followed our installation guide and started by creating a solid and level sub-base which you can see in the image above. He achieved a great sub-base by laying a small layer of white aggregate/MoT to cover the entire area before compacting with the use of a whacker plate. On top of the sub-base he then unrolled his woven membrane to fully cover his compacted MoT before securing it in place using metal fixing pegs. 

Next, Lewis started installing his plastic summerhouse base. Starting in one corner, he laid one plastic panel at once and connected each piece together using the specially designed interlocking slot and peg system. This was repeated until all of the base was in place which did not take long at all! To complete his summerhouse base, all that was left to do was fill the foundation with gravel. We estimate that 8kg of gravel is required to fill one plastic panel (72kg to fill 1m²) so you can work out roughly how much you will need for your base.

The final part and no doubt the hardest part of the project was for Lewis to now build his summerhouse which had been delivered flat pack style on pallets. As you can see from the images in the blog, Lewis did a great job of constructing his new garden structure!