How To & Technical Advice

  1. How to Build a Greenhouse Base: Greenhouse Foundation Options & Installation [UPDATED]

    A 6x6 greey-framed, polycarbonate greenhouse

    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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  2. Guide to Building a Shed Base: Materials, Construction & Options | Shedstore [UPDATED]

    Guide to Building a Shed Base: Materials, Construction & Options | Shedstore [UPDATED]

    Building a shed base is a crucial step in ensuring the stability and longevity of your shed. In this comprehensive guide, we provide detailed tips and advice to help you construct a solid foundation for your shed.

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  3. Garden Furniture Care Over Winter

    Garden Furniture Care Over Winter

    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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  4. Using Solar Power in Garden Buildings

    Using Solar Power in Garden Buildings

    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

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  5. A Beginner’s Guide to Composting

    A Beginner’s Guide to Composting

    If you haven't got a composter, then act now. If you already have one, then

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  6. Get Your Shed Ready for Winter with Our Garden Shed MOT

    Get Your Shed Ready for Winter with Our Garden Shed MOT

    The Shedstore Shed MOT

    The summer is over. Weeks of unbroken sunshine, record temperatures and paddling pools will soon be nothing but a distant memory. Winter is coming, so it’s time to wrap up

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  7. How to Keep Your Patio Weed Free (and Moss Free Too)

    How to Keep Your Patio Weed Free (and Moss Free Too)

    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 them out can be easy and highly satisfying.

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  8. Bored With Retirement? Turn Your Shed into A Workshop

    Bored With Retirement? Turn Your Shed into A Workshop

    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 in that far-flung place you’d always dreamed about? Well,

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  9. How to Choose and Install Border Edging

    How to Choose and Install Border Edging

    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

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  10. Shed Clean in 2018: New Year, Tidy Shed

    Shed Clean in 2018: New Year, Tidy Shed

    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 (just

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