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For bike storage. Much worth looking at beyond Asgard?
Their 3 bike store looks good, but I could do with a little longer.
Their 4 bike and 29er version don't look as good to me as there's two padlocks to faff with and lid to lift/clang etc rather than just a door with a lock.
Just for the commuter and I could fit a ground anchor too, so mental security not needed but I don't want some flimsy tat. Short, as in only tall enough for a bike would be ideal, then it won't show over back wall which is ~170cm.
My bikes are massive too, all XL etc. so needs to fit them. And so much work to do on the house I don't want to spend weeks building a footflaps style bunker, a weekend afternoon is about the time I can put into it.
Tell me a story about sheds
Once upon a time there was a shed.
And it lived happily ever after.
The End.
A friend of mine once offered me a shed he no longer wanted. It was 7x5, in great condition, and one of those really nice quality ship-lap sheds. I mentioned this to the kids' childminder who asked where I would put it in my garden. I said it was a bit big to go in the ideal spot, but as a last resort I could put it a bit further down. She told me she had a 6x4 shed which she would give me if I let her have the 7x5. She then agreed that she and her husband would collect the shed from my friend and bring me her shed once she'd dismantled it. Seemed like a good deal, especially as they had a trailer and I didn't.
A week later they collected the shed from my mate's house, and I expected her to tell me when they were bringing the swapped shed to me. By the end of that week I asked her whether they would bring me their shed that weekend as I had time to build it. "Oh, our old shed was rotten so we burnt it." " In that case I'll have the shed Paul gave me then." said I. "No you won't" she said "It's ours now. Paul gave it to us."
My wife insisted that I didn't kill her, or even speak harshly. She fell over on our driveway and needed surgery on her shoulder as a result, so I reckon Karma got her. 'Orrible thieving fat cow.
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Lovely stuff people 😉
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All that Pent up anger leads to the Apex of shed stories.
OP: If you only have an afternoon then you're going to have to buy somethign pretty much pre-built that just needs assembly. If it was for long term I'd be tempted to get some good thick ply and build soemthign the size you need with decent security but that's a bit more work.
My dad once seriously planned to extend his shed. It was a big shed anyway and it was around the time me and my brothers were moving out so he was going to gain loads of space due to us taking bikes etc with us. He never did extend his shed. Although now I reckon it could be a pretty cool idea. If he put a veranda type thing on the side of it overlooking the lawn he could mow a little crease into the lawn with stumps etc and it'd be a proper little cricket ground kind of thing. It'd look ace. He'd need a small table on it with a jug of ice cold Pimms too. He wouldn't need one of those big white things on wheels though as its quite sheltered in their garden and you could easily see the ball as it was bowled to you. That said, I don't like cricket but my dad does so we'd have an argument and I'd win because he's a soft touch. So we'd make the shed into a small scale replica of the east stand at Elland Road complete with bar and pie stall. That would be excellent.
During the January storms our beach shed (plus a few others got swept off the sea front):
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After a delay getting the wall rebuilt we put this there;
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My top tip - don't get talked into painting stripes on the door - it takes *hours*
When I moved out of home I needed a shed to keep my motorbike in. My late father, rest his soul, was a bit of a dab hand at DIY sort of stuff so said he would build me a shed.
He did but the only problem was that he made in 3 feet too short. Not a problem to a man of his caliber though as he made an extension for it but made it in such a way that it could be easily removed if need be.
As it happens, once we moved to our new house, the shed was too big so I removed the extra extension and it now fits perfectly in our garden. I don't use it for the motorbike now as that has long gone and we have a garage. It is now used for the garden tools, most of which I acquired on his passing 🙁
Frazer: Captain Mainwaring. Did I ever tell you the story about the old, empty shed.
Mainwaring: Um. No.
Frazer: Would you like to hear the story about the old, empty shed?
Mainwaring: Um. Yes. Listen everybody. Frazer's going to tell us the story about the old empty shed.
Frazer: Right. The story of the old empty shed. Well. There was nothing in it.
Tell me a story about sheds
My OH used to teach kids with additional support.
One day the subject was social and personal health ,and she asked what they understood about safe sex.
One of the lads.."Oh aye miss ,do it in a shed"
What would you like to know?
Well, as I said right at the start - what have folk done/recommend/avoid?
The asgards look like the best option, but wondering if there's options I've missed.
I said an afternoon, I could probably spend longer to build something, depends on the amount of time etc.
I have a decent flat area laid with concrete slabs already that seems like it should provide an ok base.
All these stories are amusing me though, although they're mostly tales of shed based woe, so happier shed stories also welcome.
I could tell you a story about a shed, well about a girl, a younger me and a arm chair in a shed.............but i'd get banned.
We have a good quality but very old and rotten shed. It houses a hutch, a couple of rabbits who have the run of it, and the BBQ.
We keep shopping for a new one, but everytime we get serious we realise we are basically buying a £600 rabbit hutch. The rabbits are used to their big windows, two openers and this makes a replacement expensive.
So it sits there with fox holes under every side, a floor that is hardly attached to the walls and is gradually being gnawed away on the inside by the rabbits 🙂
Thats the story.
Anyone got a half decent 8x6 near Brighton?!
On the first day in our new house, the bikes lived inside.
On the second day "she" left her bike outside
On the third day. "her" bike got nicked
On the fourth day I built a shed. I saw the shed and all that was in ot and all that would go in it, and it was gooooood, and i was pleased.
On the fifth day I rested.
Shed advice without narrative also welcome 😉
Though it is adding to the fun.
my next shed will be a beast shed
http://www.beastsheds.co.uk/
Their secure sheds look ace. Few people on here have them and rave about them. Best bit is they include installation. All you need to do is put a base down for them.
Hmm they do look good, and getting it installed is a bonus. I like all the options too...
Many years ago I was renovating a cottage. It took twelve weeks in total and some very good friends let us stay with them while I was doing the stuff that made the place uninhabitable. Martyn had a space in his garden that would take a shed, but not a standard shaped one. Being a resourceful type he got hold of some really nice shiplap, the sort of weathertight stuff that builds bombproof watertight sheds horizontally. The shed took ages to build, and he built it in the garage. It was a true work of art, very carefully built, with a trapezoidal shape. Week after week he could be heard sawing and screwing, hammering and sanding, and I used to stick my head round the door to admire the Ark-like leviathan growing in his mancave. It was a very vision of shed perfection, with carefully measured angles, all perfectly mitred, butted and assembled.
The day of the launch arrived, and three of us gathered to help him move it. We brought beers and nibbles, plus a couple of trays of steak to barbecue once the shed was in place. We had already helped him cut and lay base flags, and Martyn had prepared a beautiful frame for it to stand on.
We lit the barbecue so the coals would be just right for the steaks, and the girls parked themselves up the viewing end of the garden with a bottle or two of fizz.
It was a perfect summer Saturday afternoon, a fitting occasion for the magnificent shed's debut. We stood at a corner each, testing the weight, a solid, reassuring, almost too-heavy feel to the scented timber beauty.
Martyn pressed the opener on his newly -installed motorised garage door, and a tremble of anticipation ran through me as the bright sunshine flooded in underneath the slowly furling roller shutter. With due reverence Martyn suggested we lift on a count of three, and with straight backs and bulging eyes we lifted his magnum opus and shuffled towards the light.
The metallic clang as the top edge of the shed hit the roller shutter made me jump so much I nearly dropped it.
"**** it!" said Martyn "It won't fit through the ****ing door."
There once was a man called footflaps,
who came on here to ask,
'Rate my brickie, chaps?'
We though he was shit, footflaps took a hit,
and ended up building a bunker.