I agree totally about wood and treatment because surely letting it rot faster we're now cutting down more trees to replace these types of thing that don't last 40 years they last 10 if you're lucky. It's not just wood, it's batteries and various other things! I could go on a rant. But having got things out the loft recently which have been stored for over 20 years I'm shocked to see the batteries still working that were left in, one of them had an expiry date of 1996 printed on it, but still working and stayed working! Now, some new batteries when I get them out the pack they don't work! I think it's easy to lose sight of what quality used to be, I do feel we work more now in quantity for a great many things. I could say the same for white goods and clothes and kids toys too but I'll get off track!
Anyway, back to sheds! Thanks for the info on planning I actually stumbled across that same site after I posted and saw that rules had changed for planning, so it would be very close to a boundary only about 2ft away so it would need to have max height 2.5m which to be fair is about 8ft and that's plenty. I'll bear in mind though @raisingirl if some properties can have these rights removed. Thank you.
I find it a real shame about the floor going because that's all that's letting it down. If it was on a concrete slab it would still be fine. That area of the garden though can be so boggy. Digging out plants around which have died, and we even lost zantedeschia, it's just standing water within a trowel's depth at times. So maybe I should be amazed it's standing at all.
I looked at reviews of some of the keter sheds. Does anyone have one of those? They're about £1-£1.5 k and plastic. So they won't rot but I am concerned it might blow away. And plastic and security I'm not sure. The disadvantage too is you can't hang tools on the walls we've got those double hooks all down the wall at the mo with spades, forks etc hung on which are screwed into the wall. I guess you'd have to prop things up instead. Which means a free standing potting bench too taking up space not the folding one mounted to the wall which I have at the mo.
I looked at the metal ones too. I thought they were aluminium but most say steel. If that starts to rust then there's nothing you can do. Plus the walls tend to be corrugated so there are gaps around the roofing which are called "ventilation" I think they'd be wasps nests in the making! We're under a huge old blossom tree and it buzzes in the spring with bees and wasps so I know they'd get in far too easily.
Security wise I suppose nothing beats brick. I thought if we did go ahead then possibly trying to source a second hand uPVC door and window to reduce the cost. I'd have thought if they're of known size then the shed could be built to fit them. Someone online said the keter sheds come with screws which screw in the outside for the locks (?!) Which obviously would need replacing. But someone else pointed out that any old toe rag could get into a plastic shed anyway as they put it and I suppose that's probably right. You're relying on the fact that noone bothers to try rather than that it offers up any resistance. Wood shed though is the same I suppose, regardless of the lock and coach bolts though only need to prise up the lats and you're in.
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Anyway, back to sheds!
Thanks for the info on planning I actually stumbled across that same site after I posted and saw that rules had changed for planning, so it would be very close to a boundary only about 2ft away so it would need to have max height 2.5m which to be fair is about 8ft and that's plenty. I'll bear in mind though @raisingirl if some properties can have these rights removed. Thank you.
I find it a real shame about the floor going because that's all that's letting it down. If it was on a concrete slab it would still be fine. That area of the garden though can be so boggy. Digging out plants around which have died, and we even lost zantedeschia, it's just standing water within a trowel's depth at times. So maybe I should be amazed it's standing at all.
I looked at reviews of some of the keter sheds. Does anyone have one of those?
They're about £1-£1.5 k and plastic. So they won't rot but I am concerned it might blow away. And plastic and security I'm not sure. The disadvantage too is you can't hang tools on the walls we've got those double hooks all down the wall at the mo with spades, forks etc hung on which are screwed into the wall. I guess you'd have to prop things up instead. Which means a free standing potting bench too taking up space not the folding one mounted to the wall which I have at the mo.
I looked at the metal ones too. I thought they were aluminium but most say steel. If that starts to rust then there's nothing you can do. Plus the walls tend to be corrugated so there are gaps around the roofing which are called "ventilation" I think they'd be wasps nests in the making! We're under a huge old blossom tree and it buzzes in the spring with bees and wasps so I know they'd get in far too easily.
Security wise I suppose nothing beats brick. I thought if we did go ahead then possibly trying to source a second hand uPVC door and window to reduce the cost. I'd have thought if they're of known size then the shed could be built to fit them. Someone online said the keter sheds come with screws which screw in the outside for the locks (?!) Which obviously would need replacing. But someone else pointed out that any old toe rag could get into a plastic shed anyway as they put it and I suppose that's probably right. You're relying on the fact that noone bothers to try rather than that it offers up any resistance. Wood shed though is the same I suppose, regardless of the lock and coach bolts though only need to prise up the lats and you're in.