[Closed] A shed thread 🙂

nice! looks good!, i'm currently in the process of whitewashing walls and floor of my garage to keep things a bit less dusty. can i post garage pics here, or is it purely sheds? if so i'll give you some before's and in about 2 months time when i manage to finish it i can post the afters 🙂

That looks more habitable than some accommodation I've seen for rent.

Garage/Shed/falling down outbuilding. All welcome. We’d a broad church. You won’t find a ideologue shed-ist here!

Couple more.

The pack rack
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The tyre wall
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The lube shelf
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I’d not want to sleep it it 😉 Only needs a 1.5 kw convection heater to warm it up even in winter. Pretty well insulated.

I do have too much stuff tho. Just can’t bear to throw any of it away. Including 26 inch tyres!

Err after seeing yours no, I don't think I will be posting pics of my rat's nest 😭

It doesn’t stay like that for long… It makes my teeth itch tho if it’s really untidy.

Yeah fine I'm jealous. We have a garage, it's a large single but it's not big enough and ends up a total mess. I have large shed aspirations but time/money might see that not happening again this year.

That’s bigger and beater than my house. Looks great

When we bought the house, the slab was already there. Local company built the shed, me and a load of mates did all the insulation and finishing. And painting it. Which I seem to spend a lot of time doing.

At one point there was a discussion about putting the lawn mower in there. That felt like the thin end of the wedge!

Mine got to this stage in April. 12x10 footprint, since lost motivation
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Excellent shed and perfect timing, as I'm just about to start work on creating a bike workshop, come pain cave.

What size is it?

The shed is twice the size of the pics. The other side used to be my home office. It’s now a general store for even more crap, and my turbo setup.

I think it’s 7m by about 4m. or maybe 5m.

@rocketdog - that’s almost finished!

Nice timing. We move house in a few weeks and for the first time ever I’ll have a bit of space to call my own. It was originally a 9 x 2.6 m double garage but an unfinished office conversion (which I also get!!!) means I have 5.8 x 2.6 m as workshop space. First job is to block off and armour the overhead sliding door. Then on I have a long list of woodworky things to do, for which I am massively unqualified as evidenced by me half-sectioning my left index a month ago (pix on request). I need to get ten bikes in the garage, one of them a tandem...

I dream of a lube shelf....
I've just got a 12x8 workshop shed off eBay so I'm looking for bike shed inspiration and storage ideas.

My father in law always keeps his screws and oddments in old coffee and jam jars. Screws the lids to the underside of a shelf and screws the jar onto the lid. Always thought that was a good idea

Needs more bikes and bike tat up to the roof.😖
Where's the 26" tyre pile, V brakes, square taper BB's, 46T chainrings, 7 speed mechs?😚

The roof is full of RC gliders. And when I say full, we are talking no rafters free. I think there’s about 12. Been a few years since I flew them, but they’ll be out again at some point.

Normally I’d have the RipMo on the wall as well. But it was being fettled for riding tomorrow. I have some 26inch tyres buttressing the back of the tyre wall. They are hidden behind the 27.5x2.8s 🙂

Mechs are in a different drawer. 9 Speed is the oldest and BBs are all latest Shimano other than a couple of those pointless RF 30mm I seem to have acquired.

More bikes tho… yeah I’ve been rationalising. I mean three MTBs and one Gravel-y thing is a bit of a poor effort. Quite glad I don’t have a tandem tho. No idea how you’d store one of those. Other than ‘annoyingly in the way’.

Sorry OP, that's just not healthy. For some balance:

26" tyre pile hanging up in the corner...

That’s like my mate Matt’s garage. I want to go in there and tidy it up. But he’d never find anything. That second picture has me reaching for the matches 🙂

And give the exterior a lick of paint man. We’re not savages!

if it's too smart someone might think it's worth pulling the door open breaking into 🙂

Anyone with a ounce of kindness would clean it up a bit rather than steal anything 🙂

Mines been used as a builders years for the last 6 months!   But luckily I now have proper access again, so tomorrow after riding she’s getting properly mucked out!

Did you find my wheel?

Yeah I did. It’s in the other side. It was making the bike shed bit look a bit messy 🙂 I also found both your helmets and dry bags!

Ah. Bugger. Well, another trip up then. Think I left my ripmo up there as well...

🙂 You can leave with your stuff and the turbo. The RipMo is only leaving wrenched from my cold and dead hands!

We knocked our garage down a couple of months ago, so my tools and spares are in my brother-in-law's garage at the moment. Once everything else is done, I'm getting a ~3m x ~4m bike workshop/whatever room of my own, built from the ground-up. I'll be stealing some ideas from this thread.

Mines been an evolution. I’m toying with removing the partition (behind the bench) and having a single massive workshop with a couple of floor-to-ceiling workshop stands and a bench I can walk around.

This seems a brilliant idea in the pub. Sober however, I’m not quite so sure!

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I do hope this works my internet skills are on a par with my garage tidying skills

I give up

Unless you do this you’ve wasted an opportunity

Thanks for sharing that.

That’s an inspiring video. I wish I had the space for all the bins. But I’m definitely getting some of those hold-anythings for the wall. And I might invest in a label maker!

Shed envy's a terrible thing

I dunno, it’s pretty low down on the sin scale 🙂 Coveting another mans shed is not much of a crime. Deliberately replacing a tool IN THE WRONG SPOT. Well that’s just pure evil!

OP, you've got too much stuff!! And living on father-in-law's farm, that's from someone who's coming to terms with the concept of "we can't throw that out, it might come in useful one day". One margarine tube? Granted, could be useful. 500 of the buggers? Not so much.

Our shed count is as follows:

Big barn: Upstairs - 859 unused chitting trays (and a large hole in the roof). Downstairs - about 20 years' worth of rubbish, accumulating pending there being enough to drag to the top field to burn.

Small barn: See "downstairs", above

Freezer shed: 1 x freezer (not working). 1 x tumble drier (not working). Approx 250 mugs, cups, and assorted crockery (not used, but "may come in useful"). Sundry bits of wood just wanting chopping up and they'll be top-grade firewood. Or maybe not.

Woodwork workshop: 17 assorted armchairs (at least 50 years old and in desperate need of reupholstering (or burning - see above)), several hundred electric fence posts, several dozen floor tiles, no actual wood-word materials.

Bike shed: 3 bins of horse food. Half a jungle of ivy (chopped off at the roots, but still growing through the roof), 8 bikes, a tool wall and one fewer window than there should be.

Fancy coming down here and sorting it out??

Few years old now but perfect for my needs. You could get in but you’d have to make a lot of noise !!

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Sure. Have you got any matches? 🙂

I do have too much stuff. I really should throw out helmets I never wear anymore. And probably tyres. But you know they might come in useful.

500 margarine tubes tho? I’m not in that league!

Good use of space there @plusone. Glad to see a fellow ‘shed-ist’ prioritising the importance of organisation 🙂

Unless you do this you’ve wasted an opportunity

I swear Seth is some kind of DIY savant. He just knows exactly what to do and how to do it with all those kind of things. I'm not just jealous of his house and garage, I'm jealous of his DIY skills!

Op, what are the dimensions of your shed?! Looks like a lovely big space.

I've got a 7x7' shed that has to be shared with DIY, gardening & wedding stuff, so space is at a premium. I dream of the day I get a garage or a large shed.

My shed is in two parts. The first is wood storage with winter tyres down one side and lawnmower/garden tools down the other. This has a dirt floor and is currently home to my girlfriend's moped.

The second is concrete floored and is supposed to be for DIY but has, for some unknown reason, been mostly filled with reclaimed old windows and bakery trays by the previous owner of the house. We are in the process of trying to sell off this stuff now and actually re-claim some space. When that happens, I can get in a proper bench and some more tool shelves and get a proper workspace.

Great timing, and epic shed! Well done.

I’ve dreamt of having a proper garage/outbuilding with light and power for years now. Currently have a 3x8’ brick outhouse. 4 bikes in there is carnage.

We just sold out house (we had good fortune, and it sold in the first week!). So now we’re frantically house hunting.

Is it wrong that I dismiss anything (however nice) if it doesn’t have a proper garage, or considerable space for me to build some kind of man cave heaven???

I Zwift a lot in the winter, so want some where I have a nice permanent secure setup with a TV on the wall etc. Plus a workbench/tool storage, and wall hangers etc for the bikes. Also, door locks that meet insurance spec, so I don’t need to struggle d-locking everything down every time I go near the bikes. And an armchair, and a beer fridge…..oooo.

Is a garage better than a wooden shed/building?

@cokie - About 12x16 feet. Maybe 17. Tape measure was a bit short! If we ever clear the stuff stored out of the other side I could have a 24x32 foot shed. It would mean tho that I’d never be able to avoid looking at the turbo which is currently the other side of the wall…

We do have another old shed at the foot of the garden which has lawnmower and loads of other stuff that probably needs a clear out.

@kid.a - I’ve had both. Our old outbuilding was brick, it wasn’t insulated tho so got very damp. We built this one out of wood entirely on cost reasons. There was no way I was moving anywhere I couldn’t have a separate space for my hobbies. I didn’t mind much else about where we lived as long as it was rural and close to a pub. Ah well one out of two ain’t bad 😉

If you had an insulated garage, I guess that’d be more secure. There’s lots of security stuff going on in my shed that I’m not going to go into here. Suffice to say it passed a whole load of insurance questions when I wanted the bikes insured separately to the house contents.

I have Zwift setup in the other side. It’s blooming cold in the winter but then too warm if I turn the heater on. We have a sofa but no beer fridge. Probably for the best based on my beer consumption!

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Those of you using sheds for turbo training, how do you deal with condensation in winter?

Currently debating between one big shed and two smaller ones for the top of the garden, then there's the decision of whether to move bikes to the shed and keep the workshop in the garage (more useful for working on the car but less secure), or move the workshop upto the shed. Option C is just keep turbo training in the conservatory and keep the outside door open.

If we ever clear the stuff stored out of the other side I could have a 24×32 foot shed

4 times the size? !!

We no that’s my hooky maths, it’d be 24x16. Doh!

I’m not sure condensation was a huge problem last year. Obviously I sweated a lot but just wiped everything down and left it. I certainly didn’t have the door open when it was -1 outside!

My shed needs a bit of sorting but at least all my work benches are the same height.

My shed needs a bit of sorting but at least all my work benches are the same height.

Bikes?

There are 5 bikes tucked away behind the pocket hole machine; you can see the bars of a Cotic Soul peeking out and I've got 5 windsurfers suspended from the beams.
I get my priorities right.

Few of ours. I can also fit the Tourneo in. Need to get rid of our windsurfing stuff

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wall mounted bike work stand..genius!

I do like that wall mounted stand, but I also like a free standing one I can use outside. Both Tracey’s and Bigjohn’s are proper sheds without a doubt 🙂

Having watched that Seth’s shed video, I realised my shed-life would not be complete without

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If nothing else it’ll stop me opening about 20 random containers with a ’no not that one either’ 🙂

My new modest shed - nothing fancy, cost circa £800 plus time/paint/wiring. Bit of work to do yet to get it finished...

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Looks good 🙂

Needs more locks and builders band securing roof to sides and around all locks oh and reinforce door too. And pins on hinge side of doors as well 🙂

Ground anchors
Alarm

Cheers. Locks will come. It's got a full domestic alarm 😉

also loving thread. when we moved in about 8 years ago i part converted the long, but single width garage + loft above. 4/5ths is a man cave with guitars/pc/xbox etc. real nice set up for 1 person. but i barely get in there since birth of my son 2 years ago.
bikes either live in remaining 1/5 front part (inaccessible from outside as door is disconnected and reacking etc is against it and/or bikes are in the conservatory which is more of a large utility room really. all bike parts etc are in plastic tubs. all tools that get used are in a nice mobile toolbox. bags on hooks or in those wheeled folding cart things i use to carry my kit to the car and back.

if we were staying in this house i'd build an epic bike cave/zwift setup/workshop/home gym but o/h says due to school catchments etc we're moving in a few years 😀 so i'm going to have my input on new house based on that based on those needs. ideally spaec to build the epic man+bike cave but dont mind splitting some uses across multiple places. i'll put a few K into a garden man bunker if there's no adaptable space in the new house.

Can I ask how you got that big grey beast to cost so little? Even on my trade account, just the timber for mine, which is about half the size, was more than that. Granted mine is frame built with 45x45 at 400 centres, but, still.

Can I ask how you got that big grey beast to cost so little? Even on my trade account, just the timber for mine, which is about half the size, was more than that. Granted mine is frame built with 45×45 at 400 centres, but, still.

It's a Screwfix flat pack (sold third party for Shire Garden Buildings)

It's about worth what it's cost tbh. Not stellar quality, but good enough. I'll strengthen as and when required. It's only 10 X 10 - not sure how big it comes across on the pics

Ah, ok.

It looks bloody massive!

Mines an odd shape to fit an otherwise useless space (hence why I've had to build from scratch) is about 11/12ft at it's longest and about 6ft wide, but is a sort of pentangle that's been stretched out from one of its points.

It looks bloody massive!

Wide angle lens on the new Samsung phone 🙄

I'd have built my own, just don't have time, fortunately this fits perfectly into the space available.

Summer house next, which I'll spend a bit more on, but will still probably only be a Dunster House jobby

Home garden office for me, but I'm leaving that until next year.

Yeah, that's mostly the idea/justification for mine. Would like a contemporary looking square jobbie, with bifold doors etc, but can't justify the cost for how long we'll be staying. So it'll be this, but painted to the current theme - Will fit in with the shed nicely though

Had to move the dart board from the kitchen to the shed, i don't have any spare wall space so i have fitted a removable back board. Just need to fit some grommets to deaden the sound.

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Anyone got any wall storage ideas for bikes in the shed. Got quite a few and trying to maximize space. Trouble is some are road and some MTB with different wheelbases and forks etc

Have just bought a house with a garage .... Bikes live in shed normally , so excited to see this thread and all the ideas , cant wait till we move in and i start the garage 🙂

Anyone got any wall storage ideas for bikes in the shed

How big is the shed? I was looking at hanging the bikes by the front wheel, but the width for where I wanted to do it was 2.7m and the bikes would still out roughly 1.3m, there is an adjacent worktop which is 600mm so wouldnt have left much space between.

I am now going to hang two from the ceiling with two beneth in a bike rack style rack, I do have enough headspace for this, you might not in a shed though