Temporary materials storage

[I6leon9i]

I've got a load of materials together for an extension I'm planning including mdf skirting, mdf Cill boards, hardwood worktop, mdf sheets, plasterboard, vinyl, and a few other bits.

My question is, does anybody have any ideas for an external temporary store To keep it in? I was thinking a timber frame with a raised deck and a large tarp thrown over and tied down, but i suspect some of it is going to get ruined during the damp winter months?

 

[tony1851]

However you do your frame and covering, suggest NOT using those blue polypropylene 'tarps' from B&Q. I did once and it didn't last the winter.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I've got a load of materials..... including mdf skirting, mdf Cill boards, hardwood worktop, mdf sheets, plasterboard, vinyl, and a few other bits.

.....i suspect some of it is going to get ruined during the damp winter months?

I suspect you're right. In this part of the world MDF won't last 6 months outside in the winter no matter how you wrap it up. It will start to swell and the surface will become "grainy". Plasterboard is even worse - a few days out under cover in the damp and it's sometimes boogerred - and there's nothing worse than trying to clad out a ceiling where the PB has got a bit damp. If it has been delivered in a "cling-film" wrapped pack it will last longer, but it still won't do months. As to leaving a hardwood worktop outside, even well wrapped, you're asking for trouble because once you bring it inside all sorts of movement can occur. Properly managed sites either get the materials inside the building (once it's weather tight) or have a steel sea container specifically set aside for dry storage. They also try to minimise the volume of "perishables" like PB to days worth rather than weeks worth of material in part to side-step these problems.

Sorry if that's no help but I've tried a number of times to store MDF outside on jobs and it hasn't worked

 

[maltaron]

Buy a cheap wooden shed. (not a metal one-that would be worse than rain with condensation)

 

[dhutch]

MDF, Plasterboard, prebought, storing in an outside in a shed... braver man than me!

I know that doesnt help, but I would be getting inside if you have space at all.

Daniel

 

[TheVictorian]

Buy a shipping container....

 

[OwainDIYer]

get two shipping containers. Then you won't need an extension.

 

[nickjb]

It's tricky isn't it? I've got stuff stashed all over. Various piles around the garden, some covered with tarps, some in the shed and the dining room is becoming a storeroom for the delicate stuff

 

[Deleted member 174758]

get two shipping containers. Then you won't need an extension.

Guess who's been watching George Clarke's Amazing Spaces......

 

[OwainDIYer]

get two shipping containers. Then you won't need an extension.

Guess who's been watching George Clarke's Amazing Spaces......

George Clarke is a latecomer to the shipping container fan club!