Shed building materials

[Burnzie]

My allotment project for this spring is to build a potting shed on to the end of my green house.

The plan was to build it out of used tongue & groove flooring. However I've been trying all the local demolition / reclaimation yards for over a month now and any available T&G is snapped up by builders for restoration projects.

Ant suggestions for alternative materials or alternative suppliers?


regards

Burnzie

[Snadger]

I was told I could have some doors for nowt so have built an octagonal shed/chook house from them.

Made the roof from old fencing boards I scrounged and the raised floor from old advertising hoardings, I also scrounged!

When it's finisahed, I'll post a piccie...............it really looks impressive!

I would just be innovative and use whatever you can scrounge from skips etc!

Not like me.............I scrounge the material and then think "Now what can I make with that?"


PS Oooooh I forgot about Lynda's pallet shed..........now there's a challenge for you!

[Paulottie]

Is feather edged board that expensive these days? Surely a local merchant could help

Or oak rippings from a mill.. take a bit of skill though and definitely needs felting first.

Most salvaged timber needed denailing and thus it is expensive. In honesty it takes a fair amount of time and timber to build a shed if you don't do a lot of it...and small sheds are not all that dear.

Then there's corrugated iron; lino; old door and window; and other shanty town / skip diving options!

Saw a beautiful waney edged elm clad shed today!

[Norm]

I'll take a pic of mine tomorrow and post it (if I can work out how it's done). Might give you some food for thought

[snakeshack]

no sheds allowed on my site.............sob,wipes away a tear.but
have now got 8ft x 4 ft shed in panels down side of house and nowhere to put it.
already have 3 in garden.

[lynda66]

check out http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...use_22920.html ..... once it's lined with hardboard or mdf or other thin board, theres no draughts, and it's as solid if not solider than anything you'll buy ..... and if i can do it with no diy skills, anyone can, everything scrounged and from skips, just had to buy nails, sealant and locks ... and just needs a paint ...... total cost without painting just under a tenner...... not saying you wanna follow my exact plans (which were there somewhere in some dark recess of my head) lol, just for ideas.

[Snadger]

check out http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...use_22920.html ..... once it's lined with hardboard or mdf or other thin board, theres no draughts, and it's as solid if not solider than anything you'll buy ..... and if i can do it with no diy skills, anyone can, everything scrounged and from skips, just had to buy nails, sealant and locks ... and just needs a paint ...... total cost without painting just under a tenner...... not saying you wanna follow my exact plans (which were there somewhere in some dark recess of my head) lol, just for ideas.

You've let the side down there now Lynda! A tenner is a tenner! Mine's cost nowt!

[lynda66]

yeah but i had to buy nails and door locks snadger .... i tried recycling the pallet nails, but there werent enough and i was sick of having to straighten them .... and i had to seal between the lino at the edges, or it wouldn't be waterproof..... unfortunately i couldn't find any of them in skips or freecycle..... or couldn't be bothered looking lol

actually i did have loads of screws, that would have done the job, but i't still be screwing till next march lol

[Norm]

Hope this works.
On the back of the 6x8 greenhouse is a wooden frame covered in polytunnel sheeting. Plenty of room for seedlings. Hope this may give you an idea of how to extend yours.

[Snadger]

yeah but i had to buy nails and door locks snadger .... i tried recycling the pallet nails, but there werent enough and i was sick of having to straighten them .... and i had to seal between the lino at the edges, or it wouldn't be waterproof..... unfortunately i couldn't find any of them in skips or freecycle..... or couldn't be bothered looking lol

actually i did have loads of screws, that would have done the job, but i't still be screwing till next march lol

Just to let you know how 'stingy' I am?............... I needed eight sets of hinges to join my octagonal door chook house together. A few days earlier I'd noticed one of the plotholders burning some doors so I got a rake and raked through the ashes managing to 'salvage' 10 sets of hinges!
You would probably class me as quite sad really, but I get a great sense of achievement by improvising and using what I have in imaginative ways rather than just going and throwing money at a project. I like my hobbies to be self financing so that no money is taken from the housekeeping budget!

[Snadger]

Hope this works.
On the back of the 6x8 greenhouse is a wooden frame covered in polytunnel sheeting. Plenty of room for seedlings. Hope this may give you an idea of how to extend yours.

Norm..............I would need a magifying glass to see these piccies!

[Burnzie]

Hi,

Lynda66 - awesome, great thread. Will try our goods in stores tomorrow see what they've got. Got a horrible feeling that they now sell them on somewhere.

Snadger - you're not sad, you are the embodyment on the true allotmenteer, principles I have striven to adheer to over my twenty years on the plot. I should have mentioned that the greenhouse I am trying to extend is 12ft by 8ft of recycled/scrounged timber, plastic, perspex and poly sheet.

Norm - yes, thats basically what I am trying to achieve, just in timber

Paulottie - I priced up some pressure treated featheredged boarding. 6" by 8foot was working out around £1.50 per length, buying in packs of six. Going to try a local saw mill later this week.


many thanks for the feedback.

Burnzie

[lynda66]

Just to let you know how 'stingy' I am?............... I needed eight sets of hinges to join my octagonal door chook house together. A few days earlier I'd noticed one of the plotholders burning some doors so I got a rake and raked through the ashes managing to 'salvage' 10 sets of hinges!
You would probably class me as quite sad really, but I get a great sense of achievement by improvising and using what I have in imaginative ways rather than just going and throwing money at a project. I like my hobbies to be self financing so that no money is taken from the housekeeping budget!

i'd have done the same really, (although i'd have got to him first and had the doors as well before he burnt them ) but i got really fed up of straightening nails ....and really couldn't be bothered using screws .... the door handle and hinges were already on my door .... anyway i'm dead chuffed i made it for that little, i think the babies are worth a tenner ..... and the run didn't cost anything at all .... except a few cuppas and if a fox can get in there, he deserves a chicken dinner

[lynda66]

Hi,

Lynda66 - awesome, great thread. Will try our goods in stores tomorrow see what they've got. Got a horrible feeling that they now sell them on somewhere.


Burnzie

thanks, it's not perfect, but shows you can make the stuff you need from not a lot .... there are pallets all over, it's just the finding them that can be hard

[Snadger]

i...................... and if a fox can get in there, he deserves a chicken dinner

Oooooooooh! Don't tempt fate Lynda!

My run is foxproof (touches wood), but everyday I go to lottie I try to prepare myself for the worst, just in case!

On a happier note! I've had the chooks for about 9 months now without any trouble from Reynard .........who I know is in the area! (touches wood again!)