Hello folks
I am building a bike shed - I live up a set of steps and it's a PITA to carry a bike and panniers up to my workshop.
I have to get a planning application for something else I'm doing - I will be adding a 6x2 structure to the application. This is just for storing my bike from the worst of the weather.
I haven't got a particularly expensive day-to-day bike (my "nice" machines will still live indoors) and it's a low crime area. The route is the route home from a pub, though, so I will expect some sport type crime. So there will be a lock on the entrance to the shed and the bike will be locked inside with a decent ground anchor.
I want to use materials I have here already and I have a lot of scaffolding in funny lengths left by a previous owner of the house. My plan is to make a frame from the scaffolding and Kee Klamps and clad it externally with some waney edge boards I have already. The entrance to the shed will be a steel garden gate fixed to the end of the shelter with kee klamp gate pins. I have the roof materials too, which will simply be felted cladding As I have almost everything left over from the house work, the total cost need only be the price of some concrete and ballast.
My plan was to build the whole structure suspended slightly above the existing concrete floor. I think this will keep condensation negligible and there won't be issues with damp travelling up the poles.
Do you think this is a workable solution? I have another property with an Asgard shed and I think with the right padlock this will be at least as secure. When it comes down to it I don't think Asgard sheds are as good as they are made out to be and they are ugly. Something made of nice, rustic looking timber would be better. But should I give it a floor? I only want to keep rain off and drunks out.
I am building a bike shed - I live up a set of steps and it's a PITA to carry a bike and panniers up to my workshop.
I have to get a planning application for something else I'm doing - I will be adding a 6x2 structure to the application. This is just for storing my bike from the worst of the weather.
I haven't got a particularly expensive day-to-day bike (my "nice" machines will still live indoors) and it's a low crime area. The route is the route home from a pub, though, so I will expect some sport type crime. So there will be a lock on the entrance to the shed and the bike will be locked inside with a decent ground anchor.
I want to use materials I have here already and I have a lot of scaffolding in funny lengths left by a previous owner of the house. My plan is to make a frame from the scaffolding and Kee Klamps and clad it externally with some waney edge boards I have already. The entrance to the shed will be a steel garden gate fixed to the end of the shelter with kee klamp gate pins. I have the roof materials too, which will simply be felted cladding As I have almost everything left over from the house work, the total cost need only be the price of some concrete and ballast.
My plan was to build the whole structure suspended slightly above the existing concrete floor. I think this will keep condensation negligible and there won't be issues with damp travelling up the poles.
Do you think this is a workable solution? I have another property with an Asgard shed and I think with the right padlock this will be at least as secure. When it comes down to it I don't think Asgard sheds are as good as they are made out to be and they are ugly. Something made of nice, rustic looking timber would be better. But should I give it a floor? I only want to keep rain off and drunks out.
