{"id":19413,"date":"2015-06-10T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:52:44","slug":"garden-building-time-for-a-new-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/garden-building-time-for-a-new-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Building – Time for a new Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of blog posts here over the past few days but we’ve been mega-busy working in the garden building a new shed – well, it is the perfect time of year for DIY Projects<\/a>\"\". Not just that of course as we’ve also had a fund-raising night at Morrison’s with the Scouts, fund-raising again with the Silver Band, Sports Day at school, lots of work to do and of course all of the usual, training, working and chores to try to keep on top of too. I’ll blog about a few of the other things later, but for now, here’s the story of the shed…<\/p>\n

Our old shed was indeed old.<\/p>\n

We have had it for more than 10 years and it was second-hand from my sister when we got it. If it had ever had legs then it was definitely on it’s last ones. Much of the tongue and groove cladding was rotten and falling off, the door was coming off and it had been re-floored and re-felted many times. It was infested with mice and packed full of stuff, so much so that it had pretty much become unusable. It was without doubt time for a new one.<\/p>\n

We had hoped to get a nice log-cabin style garden building and very nearly did, but I noticed at the last minute that the quoted dimensions on the website were different to those in the official documentation and it therefore wouldn’t quite fit in the allocated space. We then couldn’t find another one in our price range that would fit nicely. I did find a shed that was the perfect size though so that’s what we went for. It was 16’x10′, twice the size of the old \u00a010’x8′ shed. It was also half the price of the log cabin we had been looking at and with some nice looking windows gave us a good compromise on size, price and looks.<\/p>\n

Demolition Men<\/h1>\n

With the new shed ordered the first job was to demolish the old one. Actually, the first job was to empty it out which we did one day last week after putting up the mess tent in the garden – we needed somewhere to store the contents of the shed while we built the new one and the mess tent served this purpose. Typically though as soon as we put the tent up it became very windy and we spent a few tense days worrying that it might blow away.<\/p>\n\n\t\t