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Sheds: Lean-to type and metal ones
On 14/01/2018 11:44, wrote:
Hello all,
My daughter has had an extension built, leaving a new windowless brick wall and a bit of ground inside her boundary, where she would like a shed for bikes and lawnmower etc.
I thought a lean-to shed, sloping away from the wall, might be the best use of space. So far we haven't found an off-the-peg lean to shed of the right dimensions. So I wondered how straightforward it would be to custom build one, also considering that good quality sheds seem quite expensive.
Has anyone done this and been glad, or regretted, taking it on? Another potential advantage of a lean-to shed might be that we could use the house wall as one side of the shed, albeit with some sort of wooden framework. One issue I can foresee is how to do the interface of the roof felt and the wall - maybe lead flashing would be needed? Are there any other snags to consider?
Then, I got to browsing metal sheds. These seem to be quite cheap, at least the simple ones, without windows. What are the main disadvantages of metal sheds? Difficult to fix shelves? Condensation? Flimsy construction?
Any useful thoughts gratefully received.
Chris
Find a local specialist shed company, rather than one of the DIY places,
and see if they will do you a 'custom' one. Chances are, they have some
standard designs they can modify to fit your space. I know some who did
this for a normal shed and he reckoned it was, pro-rata, no more
expensive than 'off the shelf'.
We used a local shed company for a new shed and the quality is far
better than one from the DIY stores.
Another option, which one of my daughters uses for bikes, is a large
metal bike box. It must be 6'long, 2' deep, 4' high or so. It is pretty
solid- not the flimsy thin metal normally used in sheds. I think it
holds 2 bikes, may be 3.
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