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Building Bike Shed

  • 15-10-2010 9:02am
    #1
    scargill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭


    (I did a search and didn't find anything on the above topic).

    I'm looking to build a bike shed - to store 4 bikes.
    I've done a bit of googling but couldn't find anything suitable (or free!)

    Has anyone come across any plans that I could use?

    Nothing too fancy - just to keep the rain out and deter thieves.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Martron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    whats your budget? where you want to built it.

    could you make a shelter rather than a shed and set an achor in the ground on which you can lock the bikes to.

    so basically replicate any bike locking frame with a wooden frame and a roof. you could buy a four posts. drive them into the ground. and then you could rip apart some pallets to form the walls and roof. then you could set some u bars into the ground with concrete surround which you could lock the bikes too. paint the outside then thats it.

    will look rough . but will cost next to nothing. would be more of a shelter than a shed.


  • #3
    scargill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭scargill


    Thanks Martron, I toyed with that idea but the wife wasn't impressed. She'd chain me to one of this u-bars if I put that in!

    She wants something that looks reasonably tidy - and also something that young kids can't get into (and get tangled up in the bikes!).

    I think a traditional wooden garden shed is more or less that I'm looking for, with a side opening rather than a front door opening.

    Just found this (B&Q) - must try to see if they have them in their Irish stores...


    http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10086624

    they look flimsy enough though - might bring a measuring tape and make a stronger one!


  • #4
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    scargill wrote: »
    (I did a search and didn't find anything on the above topic).

    I'm looking to build a bike shed - to store 4 bikes.
    I've done a bit of googling but couldn't find anything suitable (or free!)

    Has anyone come across any plans that I could use?

    Nothing too fancy - just to keep the rain out and deter thieves.

    Thanks


    You will easily get 4 bikes into a normal 8 x 6 wooden shed.


  • #5
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    It would not be hard to build a small lean-too shed .
    frame it with 3x2, plywood then clad with cheap ship lap. or even frame it and clad with quality 1/2 shiplap. no ply.

    1/2 ply on the roof with a small roll of felt.

    few hinges and a big bolt lock.

    There is no way a thief is going to get through that with out an hour and a big chainsaw.


  • #6
    paddy147
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    gsxr1 wrote: »
    There is no way a thief is going to get through that with out an hour and a big chainsaw.

    Yeah,theres absolutely no way a thief would be able to get through shiplap wood and plywood with a crow bar or pry bar in under an hour.;)


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  • #7
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    paddy147 wrote: »
    Yeah,theres absolutely no way a thief would be able to get through shiplap wood and plywood with a crow bar or pry bar in under an hour.;)

    with you sleeping .

    yeah
    with a crow bar you could get in anywhere in fairness


  • #8
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    was looking for something similar early this year. Looked at a side-opening shed in B&Q but it looked like something cobbled together from broken pallets and that it would fall over at the first gust of wind. Ended up getting a Garden Store for E100 and putting some stuff out of the shed in there, freeing up space for bikes.


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