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  • mailric
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    Originally posted by DS23 View Post
    tiling the bathroom
    then sorting out one of the sheds.
    Finding a contract....

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  • Moscow Mule
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    We actually started calling a chap at one of the places I worked "Two Sheds", because whenever you told him you had something at home, he'd either have two, or a better one.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by Coalman View Post
    One of the sheds? Surely more than one shed is greedy!
    Sheet, I still have a container full of stuff that I had packed and delivered to me ten years ago sat in the garden of one of my homes.

    And don't talk of the sheds, one place has three in the garden.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by DS23 View Post
    tiling the bathroom
    then sorting out one of the sheds.
    Dont you have your butler tile the bathroom?

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    Stuff expands to fill the space available. Have less space, it's the only way to have less stuff.
    True. My loft is full of old bookkeeping, the garage is full of bicycles, tools, gardening stuff, an extra fridge for booze and all sorts of other crap. Maybe this is why people keep buying bigger and bigger houses? To store all the detritis they build up in life.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    I'm after one of these;

    http://www.theqube.co.uk/

    I reckon you could get them to make a half shed / half garden room one. Now that would get past the mrs no problem...

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    What, Mrs Expat would commandeer it as a luncheon room for her friends?
    Stuff expands to fill the space available. Have less space, it's the only way to have less stuff.

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  • DS23
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    did the tiling but never even got to the shed - let alone the painting.

    dang basin half-pedestal wouldn't fit so i had to take it back. decided to make one out of mdf instead.

    shed and paint tomorrow then.

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  • FSM with Cheddar
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    she's becoming a bit of a snob since I went contracting.
    I know the feeling

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    My garage is full of stuff (not including a car). I have one small garden toolshed, also full of stuff. I thought of getting another shed, then came to my senses and realised what would happen to it.
    What, Mrs Expat would commandeer it as a luncheon room for her friends?

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  • expat
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    My garage is full of stuff (not including a car). I have one small garden toolshed, also full of stuff. I thought of getting another shed, then came to my senses and realised what would happen to it.

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    Would be very nice, but sadly too big for our modest little plot and in any case it would be declared "too nice" to allow me to keep tools and other manly items in it. Looks like I'm stuck out in the garage for the foreseable future.

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  • DS23
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    excellent vision! how long before it becomes full of stuff?

    and when it does - you can always get another shed.

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    I have a similar problem. Having forked out to get the garden done proffesionally MrsB now refuses to allow me to have a shed in it. She says it will spoil it
    How about something like this?

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    I use the garage as a shed, and Mrs Tester doesn't like sheds; she finds them ugly and proletarian. I'm trying to sell the idea as a 'garden pavilion'; she's becoming a bit of a snob since I went contracting.
    I have a similar problem. Having forked out to get the garden done proffesionally MrsB now refuses to allow me to have a shed in it. She says it will spoil it

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