Also, if you are able to divert potential water flow away from the footing and try to elevate the area where you plan to build your shed to ensure that water won t settle around or beneath it. By doing so, you are not only preventing moisture but also you are making sure that the ground will always stay leveled avoiding your shed from tilting to one side. You certainly wouldn t want to walk far just to get some when it s raining hard or there is heavy snowfall. Also, try to build a raised floor so that moisture from the ground would not easily seep inside the shed. Wet wood easily gets rotten and decomposes. With regards to the roof of your firewood shed, you should make sure in your plans that it has a high steep and is slanted. Draw an outline of the dimensions of your brick shed, you can do this by using paint in a can, spraying the outline on the soil. Step 3. After clearing up the soil, dig inside your outline with a depth of about eight inches. For the base, transfer inside sand, about two inches will do. Compact the soil and make sure that it is leveled. And to those that did not make the cut, they are relegated back to the attic or to the garage, in which case causing clutter still. The sure fire way of clearing up this space is to build a shed, whether for your tools, your garden equipments or your mementos. Whether you decide to buy or build one this is by far your best option. There are two things that you have to do first, after you have made your plans, before you actually start building your wooden storage shed. First, you have to know where to build your shed. Avoid unlevel land areas and make sure that there are no cables, wires, pipes running beneath it. Second, check with your local planning and zoning commission and show them your building plans. But more importantly, learning to build a storage shed from scratch will not only give you a useful and beautiful shed, but it will also provide you with an opportunity to discover and learn simple carpentry with an easy yet fulfilling project. Any aspiring Do-It-Yourselfer will find this a very enriching experience.