More chat about sheds

The wife and I built my workshop 20 years ago from ex Butlin (Filey) 7 eiths thick, tongue and groove floor boards, double doors £250 including nails. Locally we can now obtain reject roofing/wall material, which is two sheets of plastic coated steel separated with 75mm of insulation foam, the plastic inside is white. Several of my friends have made excellent workshops using this material.I notice some farm building are made of similar material so it must be durable and maintenance free. It doesn't sweat and one only needs a 100watt bulb as a heater, can't be bad. Ted

Hi Chaps,

I dont know if any of you have noticed that the media have developed an interest in Sheds or man caves as they are describing them, Several times over recent weeks they have been the subject of a short feature on the telly in my part of thje world,Hilighting the many uses that sheds are put to not just model engineering,This gives me cause for concern,Are we about to suffer a shed tax, ????,

On our Virgin Media box, Discovery have a Shed Channel. What a complete waste of time! Hardly anything about actual sheds on it at all...

Sorry about this but when I retired I kept the premises and it counts as a domestic workshop attached to the house! Whole area is concrete floored and brick walled, roofing varies from solid concrete through corrugated iron on timber sarking and mineral felt on wooden sarking and I still have 2 car parking spaces in the yard.

Workshop sizes are - metal workshop is 2m square - cycle,general worlshop, store is 1.7m x 5m - wood workshop is 4m x 5m - electronics workshop and library is 1.7m x 5m and outside is the wood, bike, pram, freezer, dinghy store which is 5m x 5.5m. It started in life as a cow's byre and was a cycle hire shop/workshop for about 70 years!