Shed of the year has been announced. Welcome Sheddie, this blog is about sheds! You can share your shed, or view other people's sheds. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.

Both sheddies Simon and John are stawlets of the shedblog and are doing a great job sharing their expertise with the sheddies, you can read about their tips.

External Cladding Question

Shed insulation and heating question

Of course if you have any other question plese create a thread and hopefully someone will know the answer.

Much thanks to the guys are sharing the wossname

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This is a filler post, while Iam away…!

Lots of people find this site by searching for the following keywords.

“how to build a shed” unfortunately I can’t give you that answer but you could try our Forums, or read Johns ‘ tips for shed builders or you may have a lot better chance look at our sheddies sheds for inspiration, This years Shed of the year, gave a good account how he built his.

The second most searched for thing is “where do I buy a shed” well here are some great sites that sell some sheds ready to be pimped for entry into Shed of the year 2009

1) Garden Buildings Direct
2) DIY.com Ie B&Q Sheds
3) Wickes Sheds
4) Screwfix Sheds
5) ShedStore Sheds - including Waltons Sheds
6) Taylors Garden Buildings ,who have some interesting sheds such as observatory Sheds! would love to see few of those on readersheds and posh Garden offices

More traditional UK companies like Woolworths also see a selection of sheds, as do Argos

Also we get a lot of people looking for “Shed plans”

Over the coming months, hopefully sooner we hope to have some exclusive Shed plans to offer your wannabee sheddies, so why not add us to your blog feed, or

and we will let you know when the plans are available

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Sheddie Aiden Hughes has asked this

how do I go about insulating an existing timber T&G shed to allow me to use it during the winter. I would like to fit a eberspecher caravan heater to work in it. Any advise welcome

I know a few of you have heated your sheds can you give any advice to Aiden or the rest of the sheddi.

please reply in the shed forum

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The answer by Sheila Prophet of course is in todays Telegraph, and they mention everyones (ok mine) favourite shed based website readersheds.co.uk

Actually, no. According to building regulations, if a shed is made of combustible material, ie wood, it must be at least two metres away from your own and any neighbouring house. It also needs to be more than a metre from any boundary and no part of it must project beyond walls which face a road.

The good news, however, is that planning permission is not normally required so long as the shed is a reasonable size, for instance it covers less than half the garden, and your husband doesn’t sleep in it! There are some basic tips on getting started among the guides at www.ourproperty.co.uk and your husband can compare notes with other dedicated sheddists at www.readersheds.co.uk.

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I get a few emails from sheddies asking for answers to shed related questions, of course they think I know!, but i’m a shed fanantic and not a shed expert really.

So if you have any questions you would like me to post and maybe the sheddie community can help? once there are some more then maybe I can create a shed FAQ section so it will be a great point to find out all things sheddie.

The first one is from Anthony who needs some paint advice!

I prefer the standard forest green (which is quite controversial in itself with old school sheddies)

Anyway here’s Anthony query

I need advice on the best type of ‘candy’ coloured paint to use to paint my growing garden shed collection.

Some are rough sawn feather edge and others are smooth ship lap. there seems to be a good colour range in exterior masonary paint, is this usable, maybe with a primer? - Help! - Anthony

Please post your replies in the comment box.

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