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How To & Technical Advice
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Posted: April 23, 2020Categories: How To & Technical Advice
If you've invested in a new greenhouse, it's important to install it on an appropriate base. We guide you through what to do and what not to do when building a greenhouse base.
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Posted: October 29, 2019Categories: How To & Technical Advice
Garden furniture brings a lot of pleasure when it’s sunny and warm outside, but you need to look after it through the winter. Find out how to care for your outdoor furniture here.
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Posted: July 23, 2019
Add power to your shed or summer house without an electrician
To make the most out of any shed, workshop, summerhouse or log cabin, you need to have lighting and power.
This does not mean paying the high costs of an electrician laying cables under the lawn and wiring the outdoor building up to the mains. Instead, the easiest and most cost effective choice is to use solar power in garden buildings.
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Posted: September 13, 2018
If you haven't got a composter, then act now. If you already have one, then get yourself another. Compost heaps are the heartbeat of your garden and there are ways to get the best from your compost corner.
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Posted: September 06, 2018
The Shedstore Shed MOT
The summer is over. Weeks of unbroken sunshine, record temperatures and paddling pools will soon be nothing but
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Posted: May 04, 2018
Patios are emerging from the dark winter and wet spring looking worse for wear. Algae and moss are causing major slip hazards and weeds are emerging from every poorly mortared joint. But sorting
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Posted: April 27, 2018
You’ve worked hard all your life and it was a wonderful feeling, retiring. For the first time in life, you experienced a real sense of freedom. And when you and the other-half finally holidayed i
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Posted: March 22, 2018
No Garden Design is Complete Without Border Edging
Designing and maintaining an attractive garden is hard work. There is no doubt about it. Hours of planning, sowing, pruning and mowing (plus a whole host of other activities) are required to keep gardens presentable. Why then, ruin all your hard work by neglecting simple tasks? One such example is garden border edging. Omitting this vital finishing touch is a horticultural crime so heinous it could be compared to pairing a tailored three-piece suit with scuffed, unpolished shoes. Scruffy and unforgiveable. The separation between lawn and flower bed simply must be distinctly marked.
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Posted: January 11, 2018
There, it’s over. All the happy activity and social whirl of family and friends, the hunt for AAAs and calls of ‘have you kept the receipt?’ have gone. Christmas is a distant memory and New Year’s Eve well, came and went.
And now it’s 2018 (jus
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Posted: November 30, 2017Categories: How To & Technical Advice
Nowadays, everybody has a myriad of home security measures in order to keep themselves and their possessions safe from burglars, including alarms, lights, and even CCTV cameras. However, many of us choose to neglect improving the security of our