Reviewing The garden Shed

Just like magpies we collect stuff and store it away for a rainy day or until that day arrives when a certain item can be put to good use and then returned into storage until its needed once more. But storage space can easily become a problem over time. Looking for areas in which to store your treasured possessions can be limited if you live in a small house or bungalow like me. It can be something of a problem.

The answer for me was a garden shed big enough to hold 2 lawn mower’s and a mountain bike. It doesn’t sound much but once you get the bike and lawn mowers all together they become an awkward monster.

There’s more than one choice when you look round for a garden shed. Buying a complete shed is a good idea as it usually gets erected Having it erected by the firm that delivers it gives you the chance to see how its put together in case the unfortunate happens and you have to make repairs at a later date. The second option would be easier than you think once you looked into it more thoroughly. I took the second option with which I was most suprised at how easy it was.

Not only do you know the strengths and weaknesses of the shed but you can easily do your own repairs if the need arises and you can’t imagine the satisfactory feeling you get when you finish the job and stand inside it for the first time. Building on a slabbed base is better than putting it up on grass and earth as you don’t want it slipping away in the future. Sticking it anywhere in your garden isn’t a good idea.

Unless you have sited your dream shed on a solid base its liable to sink after it finds its own level plus the fact that you’ve loaded all your items inside it when it was first put up. Once you put all your items into your new shed the weight of the structure increases dramatically. When the shed settles, which it will do once its built depends on what the base was made out of. (It means you couldn’t be bothered).

Putting a solid base down will up the price of the over all cost but there are a few ideas to make it cheaper. knowing the dimentions of the shed you can dig a hole and fill it with hardcore, sand and flagstones to give yourself a firm base to start building on. Ive used this way myself as the cost of filling in a 9 inch hole is well over 250. Its not expensive to buy paving slabs from a reclomation yard and get them delivered as well.

As time has now pasted since the build the shed is still as solid as the day I completed it. You can’t imagen how it feels to stand back and think I made that, and saved a lot of money in the proccess.

If you prefer to buy a shed from a high street merchant then the first idea would be the one you want. Buying the shed is an easy option when your not too happy about build the thing yourself. Naturally this way is far dearer than the way I did it but perhaps this will suit you better.

300 upwards is what it will cost you should you decide not to build your own shed. Which ever way you decide to go you will be delighted that you’ve conquered the growing problem of where to store the continuing amount of possessions you seem to accumulate over time.

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