Stones Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Spotted this on my travels yesterday - an upturned boat hull converted into a shed / store. I really like this, so I'm on the lookout for a suitable hull for my own garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alphonsox Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 That looks really good - I want one too ! - but I would imagine fairly rare to find a big enough wooden boat being scrapped these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 If you look the clinker boards run the "wrong" way upturned but I'm sure with a couple of templates you could make a new one..... add it to the list ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crofter Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Get a carvel hull and all will be good, or even better grp! Boats are plummeting in value as more appear on the market- fibreglass doesn't die. The saying goes that a hull is worth nothing, to get the value of the boat you add up the cost of the bits bolted on to it. Bit depressing when you come to sell, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Really taken with Stone's find, very "organic", Just DON'T go inside if it looks like this: A boat roof shed won Shed of The Year a while back. Some mad Welsh bloke dragged it up a mountain or something: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/shed-year-welsh-shed-boat-4865523 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney12 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 That link reminded me of this. I still fancy building one as a site toilet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 One of my many thought about but not started projects was to do the doorway into the roof eaves from my son's bedroom as the TARDIS and then kit it out in there as a playroom / games room. Unsurprisingly it never happened! Yet another is an outside wc clad the same at the top of the garden slope. Gravity feeding into a biogas set up along with garden waste and solar thermal heating. I give you the..... T.U.R.D.I.S 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 There was a Grand Designs where in the boy's bedroom there was a Tardis in the corner. Open the door and it revealed a fireman's pole down to his play room immediately below. I often wonder what Building control made of that. A pub in a coastal village over here for a while had an upturned boat hull (steel I believe) in its garden use for discos etc but the council objected and his application for planning permission to keep it was refused so it has now gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I think there is a lot of stuff added or removed post-completion on that programme. I've lost count of the number of totally non-building regs compliant staircases there have been in that show, the favourite being no banister rail at all, just an open drop on one side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlewhouse Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Yes, I saw that one with the suicide staircase and couldn't work out how the hell they were allowed (not that you'd really want to do it!). As for the boat/sheds, there are a whole row of them on the island of Lindisfarne here in Northumberland http://www.secrets-of-shed-building.com/lindisfarne-boat-sheds.html Edited August 3, 2016 by curlewhouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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