Shedheads

[bilko]

Anyone got a garden shed?
Anyone build one of their own or buy a cheepish one?. I have a funny craving for a shed . Not that i will definately get one but wouldn't it be nice to store all your bushcraft stuff in with a nice log burning stove.
if you have any pictures to satisfy my fleeting shedheadness that would be great
Maybe brew some wine or beer and carve spoons in when the weather is bad. Or just a realy cool place to go adorned with all your favourite bushcraft stuff.

 

[Salix]

I have two sheds mate, but the trouble is they are both full of overspill from the house

I would love a great big den, log burner ect, but i dont know what the missus would say to that

In fact yes i do.......................................................................................

 

[Spacemonkey]

I have two sheds mate,

Is your name Arthur????

 

[demographic]

If I had enough space I would have one of those 20' long shipping containers in my back yard, they are as secure as I am ever going to need and can be converted into just about anything from toilet blocks to offices

Aparently about 800 quid for one.

Even though I work as a joiner I would rather have the entire thing dropped off by a truck and just bung my bikes into it..

 

[risby]

Anyone got a garden shed?
Anyone build one of their own or buy a cheepish one?. I have a funny craving for a shed .

You might want to look at other forums ... I'm sure I used to frequent a newsgroup for sheddies but I can't find it now. Of course, it's uk.rec.sheds ... you are not alone!

 

[underground]

I got a 6 footer a couple of years ago, and spent many an hour fixing racking, tool storage, all that sort of thing. Nowadays it's a contortion act just to get from on end to the other.... paint tins in case we need to touch up the walls, amongst other randon sh*te out of the house....

I'm going to look forward to saturday though, spending all day tidying it, putting in my new scrounged bench and pillar drill. Which will probably end up covered in other junk and unuseable.

Oh well, at least I can still paint the outside....

 

[JonnyP]

I have just taken down a shed (with the help of Bambodoggy) on the job I am on at the mo, I still have 3 sides and the floor left if you want them, I am only going to throw it out....................Jon

 

[Mooney]

i hope i remeber this thread in a few months... im hoping to build one in august-september

 

[Eric_Methven]

I built a wooden shed from some 8 x 4 panels for the sides and back and palet wood for the front. Now it's so full of rubbish I can't get in. So, I hijacked the poly tunnel to use as an all weather workshop. It's ten feet wide, eight feet high and thirty feet long. I have two 8 x 4 feet benches in there to work on and the rest is storage space for wood, bow staves and flint nodules. I used to use the poly tunnel for growing tomatoes, sometimes fifty plants - and I used to give 90% of them away. I can live without the tomatoes, but I can't live without my workshop. I can't get a wood burning stove in there though.

Eric

 

[Keith_Beef]

I bought some autoclave treated posts and some pine planks (that I brushed with some sort of protective muck) and roofing felt a few years ago, to build a woodhshed, closed in along the back wall and two ends, open along all the front with a simple sloping roof.

If I had paid for all the lumber (lucky me, I had it delivered and was only invoiced for half), it would have cost much more than the 10' by 10' shed with pitched roof, door and window that my father in law bought to go next to it.

I have been surprised by the prices of some "log cabin" style sheds. Solid looking things, at quite reasonable prices, in South West France.

K.

 

[Goose]

I bought some autoclave treated posts and some pine planks (that I brushed with some sort of protective muck) and roofing felt a few years ago, to build a woodhshed, closed in along the back wall and two ends, open along all the front with a simple sloping roof.

If I had paid for all the lumber (lucky me, I had it delivered and was only invoiced for half), it would have cost much more than the 10' by 10' shed with pitched roof, door and window that my father in law bought to go next to it.

I have been surprised by the prices of some "log cabin" style sheds. Solid looking things, at quite reasonable prices, in South West France.

K.

I have looked at the prices of "ready made" sheds over here and the are silly prices. This is for the cheaper end of the market, and the wood they are made of is so thin and bad quality you wouldn't use it for packing! The pallets they come on is better wood than the sheds themselves!

 

[Marts]

If I had enough space I would have one of those 20' long shipping containers in my back yard, they are as secure as I am ever going to need and can be converted into just about anything from toilet blocks to offices

It's our company does that!

www.containercity.com

Website is a bit out of date though

 

[Toddy]

I've seen the ones at Cove, didn't believe they used to be shipping containers

I've got four sheds ; bike shed for bikes, wheelbarrow, shredder, quiet space for brewing, etc., small shed, which I built, for garden tools, pots and things like growmore, large workshop shed and my own one for storing dyestuffs, fungi, fibrous stuffs, waxes, resins, spare looms, baskets, etc., etc.,
Right now it's almost impossible to move in *any* of them Trust me, the more space you have, the more stuff you acquire to fill it ! Even the greenhouse is
cluttered just now. Major clear out coming, besides it's daylight enough, long enough to get outside work done now.
I priced the makings for the workshop shed, had plans drawn up and in the end it proved cheaper to buy one from a local company who came and erected it on site. Saved me nearly £200 doing it that way. Surprised me to be honest but there are a lot of deal out there.
Buy as big a one as you can get in your space if you can; remember when they're empty they look big enough. Try putting in some huge empty boxes as though at bench height, and it's astonishing how small the sheds really are.
Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Nemisis]

One idea you might look into Goose a local timber yard makes up crates to any size you specify. A guy at work had one side of his shed burned by vandals and I suggested he measure it up and inquire at the timber yard was about 1/2 the price of a replacement from the shed manufacturers. And as you say often a better timber to start with and a basic shed is virtually a crate with roof felt on top,a door and a window. Shouldn't be that hard to convert.
Dave.

 

[JohnC]

http://www.readersheds.co.uk/readersheds/index.cfm
may be of interest

 

[EdS]

got 2 sheds - one fo which is around 40 years old and still going strong depsite been move around my folks garden every few years and eventually the 70 miles down here.

also got 2 outhouses. And still to much stuff. SWMBO wont let me keep my stuff in her polytunnel. What is wrong with bits of of land rover it not like they are going to eat the plants in there.

 

[Keith_Beef]

The shed I'm referring to came from CIHB in Saint Pardoux la Rivière (Dordogne, southwest France).

I don't have a price list, and couldn't find one on the website.


K.

 

[moduser]

For the ultimate shed have a look at this

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/53955/shed_party/

Moduser

 

[Seagull]

Great; now that,s the stuff for the troops. :You_Rock_

Ceeg

 

[swyn]

This is the inside of my shed. It is a scaled down copy of a large c 1830 24'x75' barn. It is 8'x18'. It came about that I bought a load of firewood and quite a lot was so good that I had it milled into all the main frame sizes. It took five days to cut the joints and it was assembled in a morning. If you remember the film 'Witness' with the Amish barn raising. This was similar, but on a much smaller scale and yes it really does go up like on the film. It was an interesting excersize and great fun doing. Green oak cuts like butter and the aim was not to use any iron fastenings apart from the roof and the cladding (this was also scaled down).
I still have a yearning to make a scale cruck frame barn but would have make it to sell as space here is at a premium.
Unfortunatly I can't get the picture to download .... Please bear with me!!
Finally done!!
I agree with the advice of going to the local timber yard. I will add to that... Make a drawing and if you can and make a cutting list too so the sawyer can cut the timber to your dimensions. With a little attention you can make a shed really inexpensively.
I'm getting the hang of this now. This other pic shows the detail of joint. This was the main reason for doing this, the joints are interesting in their own right.