Secure site storage - advice

[JMCKG]

Our allotment association is looking to purchase petrol driven strimmers, grass mowers, hedge cutters etc. Before we purchase we require a solid secure place to house them, we have looked at containers but these are fairly pricey. We only need something the size of a large hut but made of steel.
Has anyone purchased something like this? Any links?

Thanks.

[Bigmallly]

What's your budget? Is there anything here?

6ft to 10ft :: Quality Used :: CONTAINERS DIRECT

[veggiechicken]

Can you build something out of breeze blocks?

[JMCKG]

What's your budget? Is there anything here?

6ft to 10ft :: Quality Used :: CONTAINERS DIRECT

Can you build something out of breeze blocks?

We were hoping to spend around £500. The containers are a bit pricy.
I did think about building one from concrete blocks, but we have no brickies on site. Cost of labour would probably push it up to at least £500.
Hoping that someone would have found and bought a small secure steel hut/shed.

[Guest]

May be worth checking the usual freecycle, flea bay and scrap yards (the corrugated metal has little value at the moment) etc. My BiL only got rid of his metal garage a couple of years ago and someone wanted it before he had even taken it down, so they are out there just need to keep your eyes open.

Edit: why metal hut anyway? sorry to be negative but if someone wants to nick them they will. I have watched footage of lads going through shutter doors to nick cooper and the speed at which they will nick an old car and tow it away, they really don't care about the obstacles or people they affect

[veggiechicken]

I've seen precast concrete garages offered on freeby sites. Maybe worth asking to see if anyone is disposing of one.
They're in panels so not quite so difficult to erect as building a store from scratch.

[KevinM67]

I don't know the size of your association, the number of plotholders, whether you are looking to expand, etc. ?

However, my advice would be to hold off buying such equipment until you can afford a decent steel shipping container to hold such products.

It would give you a bit of piece of mind that when you lock up and go home in an evening, the chances of theft and fire would be minimised.

[KevinM67]

Sorry, I forgot to add - I would also check with your association's insurance company before buying that sort of equipment.

There may be additional rulings on such things as regular servicing and maintenence of equipment, adequate training on using them, storage requirements, etc.

[Tiny Allotment]

We have a garage door company up the road from us and they have a pile of old garage doors out the back.

I'm sure there must be a garage door company near you.

You will get the doors for free or for the scrap value I would have thought.

I was thinking of building a shed for similar reasons as you and thought it would be easy to weld the doors together to to form a cube with one of them opening as a normal garage door.

Paul

[alldigging]

What Kevin said.

Those steel containers aren't fireproof is someone wants to be a complete ar%e.

[KevinM67]

What Kevin said.

Those steel containers aren't fireproof is someone wants to be a complete ar%e.

It's not being fireproof that's the main the thing, as I'm sure any bampot can get things to set alight - it's about minimising any potential damage/threat to safety, especially with equipment within it, that contains petrol and/or petrol being stored also.

[alldigging]

I was more pointing at the bit about your second comment "Sorry, I forgot to add - I would also check with your association's insurance company before buying that sort of equipment.

There may be additional rulings on such things as regular servicing and maintenence of equipment, adequate training on using them, storage requirements, etc."

An allotment group near us lost equipment in a steel container.

You need planning permission for them too.

[Potstubsdustbins]

If your talking about a steel shipping container its classed as non-permanent and in most cases would not need planning permission.

Exceptions are is it likely to cause complaints from neighbours, does it impede a right of way, is it near a highway and could it impede a motorist vision. There are others but you get the gist.

A block build shed on foundations may need planning permission dependent on size or how near it is to a boundary.