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My mate asked if I was interested in this, my missus was all "It'd make a great workshop / garden room for the kids". Nope, it's not happening, a waste of time and money. Would cost a fortune to heat in the winter. Convert your old shed like this to keep warm whilst building a new one:

It could equally be the shower unit at fault.

Lower the shelf? A couple more options:

...or upside down...

TS or SF for around a tenner.

Crabtree seem to be a go to, having a nice action.

The shower was finished years ago.

I "grouted" the tiles on the side of the bath in Forever White silicone. There's removeable panels so on those edges and the fixing holes so I used silicone. The idea I can run a knife through it should I need to remove the panel ever. As I was there anywhere and fed up with tiling / grouting, I just carried on and grouted with silicone. This was 2019 and it still looks good. The Mapei grey silicone hasn't stood up nearly as well as the Forever White:

Off another forum. Pikeys it's assumed charged an old lady over £2K for this. At least they used 10mm OSB...

My Dad had his similar garage re-roofed just before he died. Aluminium angle iron supporting a corrugated asbestos roof originally. I'd already added extra, intermediate angle irons 30 years ago when I used those crap, black bitumen, corrugated sheets from Wickes. That was a total failure. It sunk in multiple places like washing up bowl sized depressions. This time a local builder tek screwed OSB down to the angle irons then did a couple of layers of self adhesive roofing felt. Looks really good. I'll take some pics at the weekend. The concrete garage itself is shot but the roof is good!

Gave up on the idea of planting the 12 butternut squash that I'd brought on from seed, in raised pots or mounds. I was sick of the sight of them tbh, getting them in every night. Yesterday afternoon I just whacked them straight in a prepared, well sifted, manured, L shaped trench. They can just take their chances. As a hoped pest deterrent I painted wood preserver on the top edge of the sleeper, outside the membrane that lines the sleepers so smelly right? I'd also had a home hair/beard trim so combined the cuttings with some hair from brushing the big tom cat here. Deterrent? I think not! Something shat(?) right next to the first plant! This is just nasty.

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I'd try some brick cleaning acid.

Welders gaunlets for pulling up Triffid sized stinging nettles!

Lidl had some excellent blue work gloves in. Bought 4 pairs size 11.

3 rolls of this would save all that planting: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alkor-Furniture-Adhesive-Protective-Bamboo/dp/B00CQ4UJDQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?

It's plain mild steel, powder or possibly epoxy coated. Running water through if would just hasten rusting. In fact I'm thinking of spray injecting lanolin inside the sections as a natural rust preventative. Cleaning this same steel up when I made the pub arch recently was a mission. Flip disc'd the coating off, washed in phosphoric acid then etch primer and painted. Inside I squirted ACF-50. Still don't think it will last. For the bean frame I just keyed the coated surface and painted in Lidl's finest black paint.

You mean the box section enclosure? The rough plan was a frame I could later net for growing brassicas / soft fruits or even plastic sheet the whole thing. Not too well thought out! I might change the top, printed connectors to allow a pitched roof.

Digging an L shaped trench to put some butternut squash in on the sunny side and it further confirms this is made up ground. Seems to be spoil from previous house mods over an old rubbish tip which I'm aiming to excavate further. First came the PLJ (lemon juice), now this bottle last night, unfortunately broken: I'm sieving the soil that goes back in the trench through a 6mm sieve then mixing with 10 year old horse manure to add organic matter:

Another 45 runner beans in a little raised bed. These to go with the other 50 already in. The new ones are red!

S'funny, my missus points at your house and says similar!

I got this lot for free on Facebook Marketplace. To be precise my nephew spotted them and we went down to Medway in his pikey truck. Likely plenty in that locale,, what with Chatham Dockyard etc. The people were remodeling their garden and wanted shot of them. Some look very old, others newer.

I've used proper old ones to retain a veg patch. I lined the sides facing the soil with dpc. Hope it works as I've just done a raised bed right up against it. They do tend to leach tar especially in hot weather.

The Parkside one is ace.....