ABERDEEN! Yes, you. You beautiful creature you. We know what it’s like trying to find the right people to build you a Garden Shed. How are you expected to know who makes the best Sheds in Aberdeen when you’re up against shoddy websites and poor information? It’s a minefield of mis-Shed information… Don’t you worry though, NattyShedGirl is here and …
Now, depending on age, there may be a time where your summerhouse will spring a leak and where this leaking comes from is what you need to know. The first one and the most common one is when a summerhouse has its normal slab base underneath it and then the customer has then put decorative slab on the outside of …
Dealing with difficult neighbours when you’re thinking about getting a beautiful Summerhouse for your garden can seem like a nightmare. Either you don’t get along with them, or you find them a constant busy body. Or maybe they find you quite difficult, or you just generally don’t agree on most things. If you are squabbling about colours for painting fences, …
The way I look at it is a shed is for a practical use. It’s something that is either going to be there for storing your garden equipment or there for practical working space. By practical I mean messy pretty much. Vehicle maintenance, tinkering about with tools. That type of thing. Pottery would work. All those sorts of things that …
Okay, so there’s a few major concerns that I have about the things that you need to look for when you are buying sheds. One being this. A lady that came to me the other day. She’s checking out her sheds because she needs a new one, because she bought one two years ago and paid a fair bit of …
If you have just bought a Gillies and Mackay summerhouse, you should be considering the aftercare for that summerhouse and how you actually have to look after it. The maintenance of your Summerhouse is fairly straight forward. There are just a few of things that need importance put on them, and that is the treatment of the building and …
If you have a Gillies and Mackay summerhouse, that’s maybe eight or nine years old, and you’re thinking that you’re going to have to re-roof it soon. This is because when you bought the summerhouse, we told you it had a life expectancy of 10 years and is guaranteed by the manufacturers for 10 years. Then you’re thinking maybe it’s …
It’s quite probable that you’re going to have gardening equipment, you may have golf clubs, you may have bikes in it. That sort of stuff. Things that may have been out, got wet in the process or been cleaned and not dried and then put it into the shed. And then the shed’s been locked up and been left. All …
Okay so you’re not really that bothered about #shedlife. In fact, you’re not bothered about it at all. You just need something to stick the bikes in for a few years. So you’re not really fancying spending 800 quid on an 8′ x 6′. Is there something somewhere that can tell you how long a cheap shed will last? …
This is the buyer’s prep video, so these are the 3 things that you need to know and understand before ordering a Gillies and Mackay building. First things first, do you need planning permission? Check it out, just make sure. It usually has to do with the positioning of the building. If you have it close to a boundary or past …