Julie's Boggle

After the previous post, there were some people who came back and said “So what’s wrong with the old shed? It looks fine.” The above photos illustrate the point, rather well I think, that, close up, the old shed was Tired.

We also had a small rodent that had taken up residence, subsisting on the seeds I kept in there for the garden birds. In short, the shed was not (and had not been for a long time) a great place to store anything we cared about.

So moving swiftly on, the old shed was flattened in under 10 minutes by our hired handyman and his happy helper. He then proceeded to pour the concrete base for the new shed and assemble the rather complicated replacement shed we’d bought.

Unfortunately in practice, the “Grosfillex Utility 3 Plastic Shed” turned out to be a lot less stable than it looked on the website we ordered it from. The presentation was great, but the product definitely doesn’t warrant the extortionate price they charge for it. For the rigidity it offers, I would have thought it should be half the price.

On the plus side, it does look very pretty. So lets hope it doesn’t have to withstand any gale force winds in its current location!

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That was the end of part II which we actually reached just before our holiday to SA.

Part III was transferring various effects into the new shed (all done while Jon and I were in SA, thank you Tom ), and getting rid of the old one’s remains!

We were originally quoted £150 for this operation, so it was a very happy coincidence that I thought to ask our local council if they would do it for us. They would only pick it up from the pavement (so Tom and I had the task of lugging the sections through the house to the front), but they only wanted £31 (woo-hoo!) to do the rest, which seemed a much fairer deal all round.

Sings merrily, “Ding-dong, the shed is gone…”

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