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What about just buying a good quality hose (like a gardena) and part burying that? Lay the rest along the surface. Disconnect it in the winter, it'll last years and years in my experience. You could collect rainwater off the garage too?

You will eventually get weeds growing in the gravel/shingle I would say grass is low maintenance An area like that you could even just cover it in wildflower seeds and cut it once a year

What grade of bark is it? Larger tends to blow about less

I wanted to buy a pot of green fence paint, last year I think it was. All the shops have pallets and pallets of every shade of grey fence paint. That's the latest fashion. In the past I've mixed together 2 different colours of fence paint to get a different shade of brown.

Both you and your neighbour already have spikes on the top? If you don't mind the place looking like a prison, a few horizontal strands of barbed wire (going over your neighbour's gate too) would be ideal

Howdens used to give you a free trivet when you bought a kitchen, that would do!

I've also got a compost toilet down the bottom of the garden, closest thing to a flush is a small sprinkle of sawdust. Beautiful place to go for a dump on a spring morning, sun coming through the trees, birds tweeting away, etc :cool:

From Dunster House: "All of our garden buildings have pressure-treated floor bearers as standard. All our Pressure Treated timber is for Use Class 3" -- From the Wood Protection Association: "Use Class 3 is for end uses where wood is used outdoors NOT in contact with the ground."

Easy to slip with a knife, side cutters are good for cable ties. Shame you've already bought some, they had them in lidl, 2 for a fiver https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/parkside-hand-tool-assortment/p10028874?pageId=10069813

I've got a set of crampons I've used for strimming steep banks before

Garage door threshold strip? Or go to a local fabricators and get a strip of alloy chequer plate?

A couple of times a year Lidl/Aldi sell their own brand direct to metal paint, about £5 for a litre, so a fraction of the price of hammerite, and just as good imo. For a quick tidy up I would go over all the metal work with a wire brush/scraper then slap on some paint.

It's a cool looking shed, I hope you don't lose the look of it!

Tbh it probably wouldn't be a problem if you hadn't painted the inside. For a start you could paint the outside with something more water repellent like Sadolin or Bedec Barn Paint

Local bolt shop, mine does good prices

Why did you want to get the legs off (damaging them in the process), to then try and fix them back on? Was the telly broke?

If you're just screwing them to the wall and not stacking them you might find suitable containers in your recycling bin, ice cream tubs, cut down milk bottles, 5l containers etc

I like natural stone. But in a way I don't dislike the concrete blocks, looks quite modern. I was working at an architects house, it was actually built by his father in law who was also an architect. The walls of the house and garage are bare concrete block. At first I thought it was mad, it...

Make the wire rope up, as close to the size needed as possible. Attach it to the timber using an eye bolt/threaded eye, which you tighten the nut to apply the tension.

Shouldn't have to on a new item, but cut the back of the trim down, so it goes on further? Even as it is, you could seal it with silicone. No gap is too big for silicone, if you have enough! You could pack a bit of foam or small hose in first to reduce the amount of silicone.