PaulH757

Just going to be a timber frame lean to shed. About a metre from the boundary, enough room for me to get alongside it to fix wall panels at least.

Hi, first post on here. I'm looking at a project to build a wooden lean to man cave on the side of my house but would like some advice regarding the uprights. I'm planning making it rougly 6x2.5m, so I'm thinking 5 uprights should be enough? But my main question is about fixing them to the ground I was thinking of using metposts but I've heard bad reports about them although they look a fairly simple solution. Dig holes and postcrete them in? If I did it this way how deep would I need to go given I want it about 2m high, and how easy is would it be then to get them all the same height? Or dig a trench and fill with hardcore/concrete and bolt post holders to it. This would seem the easiest way to get everything level, how deep would I need to dig the trench and what sort of depth concrete woud I need on top of the hardcore? THanks in advance for any advice