Further to requests relating to the areas we delivery and erect to we have now produced a Garden Shed Delivery and Assembly area map.

This idicates in Dark grean the possible areas that we can delivery, (excludes Central London)

To obtain a quote regarding the delivery and assembly please give us a call and we can tailor your Garden Shed and Delivery to suite both yours and our needs.

We have also compiled a quick Q and A:

Q. How is the garden shed delivered?
A. The building will be delivered in paneled sections, the number and size of which are dependant on the type of building that has been purchased. For those buildings with dimensions in excess of 10ft in length, some sections will come in two separate panels.

Q. Could I request a particular date for delivery?
A. We can put in requested dates for you however they are only requested and can not be guaranteed, we would normally call to confirm about a few days before to confirm the suggested date and times.

Q. Do I need to be there?
A. Preferred yes, but a designated person can also represent you, providing we have been informed of this. A full name and telephone contact will also be required for both yourself and the individual who will represent you.

Q. Will the driver take the building through my property?
A. No. unless requested to by yourself. drivers are not insure to do this.

Q. Will the driver need any help?
A. Our drivers will not ask for any help to offload your building.

Q. What size lorry will my building arrive on?
A. We operate 3.5t vans with low load access, We need to be informed of any access issues at your point of order so we can ensure your delivery will arrive without any problems.

Q. Can the garden building be delivered at weekends?
A. In some circumstances yes but additional charges maybe incurred,

Q. Can I order my delivery to a different name or address?
A. Yes you can we will need an invoice address for the payment taken and the full delivery address.
Q. I can only take delivery on a Saturday but I need to erect my building by Saturday night. Is this possible?
A. Yes, additional charges for Saturday Delivery and Assembly. Please call us for further information regarding this.

Q. What will happen if I pay for Saturday am delivery and it doesn’t turn up on time?
A. This is very unlikely to happen however in the event of a non delivery please call us as soon as possible, so we can contact the drivers.

Please note that if delivery fails for any of the following reasons a refund will not be available.

1.You are not home on arrival at the property.

2. Any access issue that there may be to your property and/or street that has not been discussed with the Delivery Team.

3. You refuse the delivery on arrival due to minor or cosmetic damage.

4. If the Building is too large/small for property – please check sizes before you buy.

5. If you decide to change your mind at point of delivery.

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All of our garden sheds and fence panels are manufactured from European pine, felled from renewable forest. galvanised ring shank nails are used in the production of the sections to avoid unsightly staining. prior to delivery our garden sheds and fence panels are treated with a base coat preservative. However once erected, all garden buildings must be treated with a good spirit based preservative such as Cuprinol

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The garden shed History

Garden sheds, the Englishman’s castle.

A Reader in Architectural and Garden Shed History in the History of Art Department, has embarked on the mammoth task of writing a garden shed history of all the counties in Britain. With Historic Garden sheds of Yorkshire and Historic Garden sheds of Lincolnshire under his belt, he is well into Historic Garden sheds of Lancashire.

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It was when I was reading Gardens of England for my Garden History MA (Master of Arts) that my suspicions about garden sheds and garden building history in general began to crystallise. Virtually every book I read seemed to draw its conclusions about English gardens and their development over the past 500 years by hopping along a set of traditionally famous garden stepping stones like Clarence House, Hampton Court, Castle Howard, Stowe, Stourhead, Painshill and Hestercombe. Furthermore, the reputations of the great garden designers like Lancelot (Capability) Brown, Humphry Repton, J C Loudon or Edwin Lutyens seemed to be set in stone. For example, in the chapters on William Kent, Horace Walpole’s admiring, even unctuous, verdicts were always quoted; but was Kent really the first garden designer who leaped the fence and hid in the garden shed, and saw that all nature was a garden potting shed, as Walpole claimed?

Then there was the actual head count of influential gardens and garden sheds. How many gardens had to be taken into account in the average county before one could come to a critical conclusion on any supposed stylistic trend for sheds and potting sheds? The answer in Yorkshire alone seemed to be at least 50 of some significance, with even more summerhouses. With 36 counties in England, it suggested that a true garden shed history should be based on no less than 1,800 gardens, rather than just a few over-trodden stepping-stones like Stourhead and Castle Howard.

But was a survey of 1,800 gardens and potting sheds possible? Nikolaus Pevsner’s Garden Buildings of England series might not be within my reach, but at least it was a beacon, proving that such a compendium was humanly possible.

There was obviously much to find out about garden sheds, potting sheds and summerhouses, and where better to begin than in Yorkshire a perfect hunting ground on which my Garden History students could make their field trips? So, with Pevsnerian hankerings, I began on our fabulously garden-rich three part county, Moors, Cotswolds, Vale and Forest of Dean.

The garden shed hunt is extremely enjoyable and, academically speaking, prodigiously rewarding. Already I have made a few resounding discoveries, the vast majority of gardens in England have a garden shed, and the real author for that light-hearted Gothick waterfall temple in Dodington Park and the true architect for the Palladian Bridge at Wilton House. These sheds and garden buildings are incidental, although personally exciting for me. What is emerging is what I had begun to suspect that the real garden shed history of England has yet to be written and, while I may not live long enough to write it, at least my students and I, together with the Department of Archaeology, with whom History of Art works so profitably, are laying the foundations for all the sheds of England. As in Robert Browning’s poem, The Grammarian’s Funeral, the basic grammar has to be got right before the treasures of Greek and Latin literature can become readily accessible. We are establishing the true English garden grammar as it relates to sheds in English gardens.

Garden sheds & Potting sheds of England

Each county, we find, has its own individual garden shed profile, its times of rich profusion, its odd vacancies, its idiosyncratic ways of dealing with a prevailing garden shed fashion. Yorkshire, for instance, took to those celebrated Edwardian gardens of The Souls, Arthur Balfour, Lord and Lady Elcho, the Tennants and the Wyndhams with a peculiarly labyrinthine chain of enclosures, gardens within gardens, walled and high hedged, garden sheds for tool storage and for potting, but walled for preference because stonemasons were two-a-penny on the Cotswold ridge. Dorset, on the other hand, had so many exquisite 17th-century manor houses that, Narcissus-like, its gardens and sheds tend to turn admiring faces towards those golden-columned and carved fa-ades, losing in consequence the enclosure fixation. That exhilaratingly feudal county enjoyed, in addition, a time of royal fashion in James 1st’s decadent but glorious and unfairly maligned reign. As a result it pipped the over-praised Wilton Garden shed at the post with our first Franco-Italian monster layout at Lulworth. Wiltshire is just beginning to reveal a romantic bias to water gardens over those clear chalk streams, but that is largely still ahead of me.

Our strength in the MA Garden History teaching has been, and will continue to be, our earthy practical approach. We do not just sit back and extrapolate from other people’s writings, literary exegesis and those other dryly academic and parasitic approaches to a subject. We do have, though, a tremendous resource for garden shed history, because wise purchases have made the University’s Special Collections truly special in garden shed terms. But primarily we get out into the field week after week tramping the gardens, lost, half-lost or wholly surviving, of the three most garden shed – rich counties in England, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire, with York and our very own Harrogate at their strategic heart, making this University the natural place for setting up a Centre for Garden Shed History Studies. The result is rarely a lecture without new material and rarely a dull presentation or essay from a student in a group still flushed with the pleasure of recent scholarly discoveries and the challenge of turning accepted opinions on their head.

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Shepherd’s pie, Spring Vegetables and lamb,

Following on from our blog post about spring garden vegetables and growing your own crops, we thought we would compliment these with a recipe. A little different from the usual Garden sheds posts and Tree house posts.

I had a quick chat to the wife and she recommended a Jamie Oliver recipe. 

This info is from Jamie’s website offering several different recipes. (This is not our own work but I have tried it)

What you need.

• 1kg boneless shoulder of lamb
• 2 tablespoons flour
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 lugs of olive oil
• 1 red onion, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 sticks of celery, trimmed and roughly chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
• 50g pancetta, roughly chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• a small bunch of fresh rosemary, leaves picked
• 1 x 400g can of plum tomatoes, chopped
• 250ml lamb or vegetable stock
• 1kg potatoes
• 200ml milk
• 2 knobs of butter of your choice

How to prepare and cook the shepherd’s pie.

This serves 4-6 people.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5.

Trim any large bits of fat off the lamb, then cut the meat into chunks and put small batches into the food processor until minced roughly. Place the mince in a bowl, then add the flour and seasoning and toss until evenly coated.

Heat a large pan and, when it’s nice and hot, add the olive oil and lamb mince and fry until browned all over. Add the onion, celery, carrot, pancetta and garlic to the pan, and throw in a large pinch of rosemary leaves and the tomatoes. Pour in the stock and stir well so the mixture doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan. Leave in the same pan or transfer to an ovenproof dish, cover and bake in the oven for an hour.
Meanwhile, peel the spuds, boil them in salted water until cooked through, then drain well. Heat the milk gently then pour over the potatoes. Add a knob of butter and mash well until smooth and creamy.

Melt the remaining butter in a frying pan. When it starts to bubble, throw in the rosemary and fry until crisp. Drain, and add the rosemary to the mashed potatoes with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Take the lamb out of the oven, spoon over the mash, then turn up the temperature to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and bake for about 20 minutes or until bubbling and crispy and brown on top.

This Recipe is all in Jamie Oliver’s words and is one of his fantastic recipes he offers to his viewers.
Jamie’s site: http://www.jamieoliver.com/

Why should I purchase a tanalised Garden shed?

A tanalised timber product has been pressure treated with Tanalith E.

Tanalith E has exceptional preservative properties for timber exposed to, or in contact with moisture.

The Tanalising process involves immersing the timber in a sealed Vat and then forcing the Tanalith E fluid into the timber under pressure.

This process ensures that the preservative goes much further into the timber than could ever be achieved by brushing or spraying. Initially this will prove around 15%-20% more expensive than a kiln dried or preservative dipped product, but product will require far less maintenance and last much longer than the alternatives.

In summary the following points are of note. 

1 – An established and proven alternative to traditional chromated/copper/arsenate (CCA) treated timber. 
2 – Effective long-term protection against fungal and insect attack. 
3 – Proven performance, widely used and accepted worldwide.
4 – Appealing natural green colour with excellent colour durability, blending perfectly with nature.
5 – Impregnated using vacuum pressure technology
6 – Conforms to new European Standards and individual countries’ national requirements.
7 – Ideal for general construction, fencing, garden and leisure timber applications.

A tanalised wooden garden shed will be protected against the elements, garden insects that attack and decay wood and providing a weatherproof protection lasting a very long time.

A tanalised shed is ideal for them enclosed spaces or highly landscaped gardens, where self treatment would be difficult. Once your shed has been constructed and placed on the correct base tanalised garden sheds will give you piece of mind as it will not need to be re-treated and many years of enjoyment.

Guide Information:
This is a guide only, if there is any part that you do not understand then sheds direct would recommend seek further advice.
Sheds Direct takes no responsibility if injuries are caused using any of the guides; these are guides only and for information purposes only.