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Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby English » Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:34 pm

Well as we enter into 2014 the possibility of a new perhaps bit bigger garden shed than the existing one comes to mind.

The existing one is down the garden like many people traditionally have but I find myself thinking apart from the fact its a bit rotten in places and will ultimately need replacing (when the exsisting one falls down due to 50+ years old) that an upgrade would be in order?

I started thinking about a concrete garage that would just be a bit bigger and to have it in the same location if you imagine coming in on the road bottom left side of the garden.

then I started to think If if did that - I could have a pit and actually use it for a garage with a work bench at the back with space for the lawn mower and gardening junk?

Then my mind ran riot why not have a wooden shed that is built to suit in a L shape so car and pit in the existing space + a shed/mancave/workshop in the extended "L"part.

Then I started thinking you could run electric down there, put in a a small beer fridge and extend a small sun shade/veranda/decking.

Then I thought this is getting to ambitious and too expensive - however you get the general idea - your thoughts guys + anyone know of any place on line for free plans etc?
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby humperdingle » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:21 pm

You can get some very nice prefabricated sheds/buildings, which look like log cabins but are made with plastics and filled with foam, so are insulated.

I've just taken over the loft as 'my' space, for leatherworking, gun cleaning etc.

Tricky to get the motor up there, though :grin:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Tommo » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:45 pm

I have to consider myself extremely fortunate that, living in a vicarage, you get what's on offer. Currently we occupy a 1809's SIX bedroomed detached vicarage..!! Now I have my 'man cave', one of the bedrooms but there is also provision for a drop dead gorgeous shed too. It's actually brick built with a slate roof, waterproof and dry inside and split in to two sections. I put our old fridge freezer in one side and the other has had a workbench fitted.

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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Sidebyside » Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:56 pm

These will give you some sort of choice :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=man+s ... CAkQ_AUoAQ
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Buffy Vampire Slayer » Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:46 am

whatever you do/build it will never be big enough ;)
my integral garage is my "man cave" and there`s that much shooting related stuff,hides,decoys,clay traps,a wheeled steel cabinet that holds 5000 cartridges,on top of that a brittool roll cabinet full of spanners,sockets etc,hand tools,drills and grinders,a welder,workbench with the gun vice and gun maintenance stuff blah,blah,blah
any way you get the idea IT`S NOT BIG ENOUGH :Facepalm: :Facepalm:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby hungryrob » Sun Jan 12, 2014 9:19 am

I've got three.. One huge garage which would fit 4 or 5 cars,which has an attic the same size, two stables on each end, a garage up at the caravan and I've just built a lean to onto that one to create more space.. Oh, and a woodshed and greenhouse.

They're all full! :(
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby English » Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:57 pm

Some interesting stuff coming through but the overwhelming thought is that it wont create enough space (after all some of it is just about replacing / renewing a shed that is there but through age is past its best)!

Buffy - truly impressed by your 5000 cartridge safe? :shock: I don't think I have ever bought more than a slab of 250 at a time except when some friends pitched in and we bought a 1000 lot between us! Perhaps that why I'm no much use with a shotgun :shock:

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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Buffy Vampire Slayer » Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:55 pm

English wrote:Some interesting stuff coming through but the overwhelming thought is that it wont create enough space (after all some of it is just about replacing / renewing a shed that is there but through age is past its best)!

Buffy - truly impressed by your 5000 cartridge safe? :shock: I don't think I have ever bought more than a slab of 250 at a time except when some friends pitched in and we bought a 1000 lot between us! Perhaps that why I'm no much use with a shotgun :shock:

Keep em coming guys"

I buy 2 to 3 thousand clay carts at a time plus the pigeon,game and wildfowl stuff you I need somewhere to keep the things :grin: :grin:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby flintlok » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:55 pm

I need a serious man cave. My wife has the house storage space locked up with her stuff and she considers my stuff as only in the way. :( :( :( :( :(
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby humperdingle » Sun Jan 12, 2014 3:05 pm

English wrote:
Buffy - truly impressed by your 5000 cartridge safe? :shock: I don't think I have ever bought more than a slab of 250 at a time except when some friends pitched in and we bought a 1000 lot between us! Perhaps that why I'm no much use with a shotgun :shock:

Keep em coming guys"

Might be a sound financial investment, given the doubling in prices over the past few years :hmm:

Buy a pallet of carts, sell them in 5 years :grin:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Ray7756 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:45 pm

If you are building it big enough for a garage + extra space for man shed you might need planning permission, if not just need a concrete base then 4 walls, go online to companies that sell roof trusses give them the sizes and ask for a quote, the normally send drawings with the quote, scrub round the quote and build them yourself from their plans :thup: :thup: thats what i done with my 8x8 mt garage,,,,,, saved a fortune ;) :grin:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby Hornet 6 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:15 pm

flintlok wrote:I need a serious man cave. My wife has the house storage space locked up with her stuff and she considers my stuff as only in the way. :( :( :( :( :(


You could always tell her that you considered her stuff as a waste of space, and that you have given it away to the local charity shop :roll:
That should give you a completely empty house :lol:

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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby gun nut » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:04 am

Hornet 6 wrote:
flintlok wrote:I need a serious man cave. My wife has the house storage space locked up with her stuff and she considers my stuff as only in the way. :( :( :( :( :(


You could always tell her that you considered her stuff as a waste of space, and that you have given it away to the local charity shop :roll:
That should give you a completely empty house :lol:

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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby leadpig » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:28 pm

humperdingle wrote:
English wrote:
Buffy - truly impressed by your 5000 cartridge safe? :shock: I don't think I have ever bought more than a slab of 250 at a time except when some friends pitched in and we bought a 1000 lot between us! Perhaps that why I'm no much use with a shotgun :shock:

Keep em coming guys"

Might be a sound financial investment, given the doubling in prices over the past few years :hmm:

Buy a pallet of carts, sell them in 5 years :grin:

i buy mine at the end of the game season,£3/4 a box for various fibre wads no.5/6 i took everything he had left last year :grin:
as you say they are never going to go down in value ;) :thup:
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Re: Sheds/ Man - caves?

Postby humperdingle » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:50 pm

leadpig wrote:
humperdingle wrote:
English wrote:
Buffy - truly impressed by your 5000 cartridge safe? :shock: I don't think I have ever bought more than a slab of 250 at a time except when some friends pitched in and we bought a 1000 lot between us! Perhaps that why I'm no much use with a shotgun :shock:

Keep em coming guys"

Might be a sound financial investment, given the doubling in prices over the past few years :hmm:

Buy a pallet of carts, sell them in 5 years :grin:

i buy mine at the end of the game season,£3/4 a box for various fibre wads no.5/6 i took everything he had left last year :grin:
as you say they are never going to go down in value ;) :thup:

Bought 1000 clay loads today for £165... £97 last time I bought a thousand :shock:
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