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Nothing gets my shed door slamming more than when customers can’t get the right information about Planning and Building Control from their local authorities. More often than not, customers are under the assumption that if you don’t need Planning (based on the Permitted Development Act) you are absolutely well within your rights to erect a building in your garden. No …
If you’re familiar with Gillies and Mackay, you’ll know we don’t muck around with specification, especially when it comes to our Garden Rooms. We know what you need when it comes to staying warm, dry, loved and comfortable in your Shedlife. That’s why we have developed the best specification of Garden Rooms to withstand the Scottish climate. Grant and I …
The Half Build Garden Room Listen… It’s okay. You can tell me, I’m totally cool with it. It’s only natural. You’ve got the skills, you’re right handy around the house and this might just be the dream project you’ve always wanted! I’m talking about ‘Do-It-Yourself Garden Rooms’. We’ve made 100’s of Garden Rooms for our amazing G&M customers over the …
What about this heat?! I know – best we’ve had since 1976. So what’s that got to do with your Summerhouse doors? “When looking at daytime temperatures the UK average for the month was 19.9 C, the same average maximum daytime temperature as in the June of the still talked-about summer of 1976, and placing it joint second…” (Met …
Wait a minute?! What is interlocking log? I know, I’ve been asking myself the same thing. How do I explain, not only what it is – but why is it a thing? And how do Log Cabins compare to Sectional Panels? Alison my saviour, from the Gillies and Mackay office messaged me last week to say, ‘Oh …
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 are working from home and considering the costs involved with buying a Garden Office instead of working from the kitchen table, I’m here to help. I’ve spent a fair bit of time researching this, 8 months straight. In fact if you count Blackstone Cabins it’s actually about 12 years. We’ve all been there, faced with the daily struggle …