Sheds

Whether you’re buying a new shed, improving an old one, or just want to find out more about the nation’s favourite garden buildings, have a browse through our Shed Blogs now.

  1. What the Shed of the Year Winners Have Taught us Over the Years

    What the Shed of the Year Winners Have Taught us Over the Years

    Sheds are a major part of gardens in the UK.  Sheds can improve the quality of the garden as well as provide a place for children to enjoy the outdoors, and even create personal get-a-ways for adults.  People tend to give their sheds a very personal touch,

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  2. What Type of Shed Should I Buy?

    What Type of Shed Should I Buy?

    The three main shed types include wooden, metal, and plastic (or resin).  Wooden sheds are generally made from softwoods that include pine or spruce, but can also be made from larch or Douglas fir, and the more expensive and wonderfully scented cedar. 

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  3. How To Felt a Shed Roof

    How To Felt a Shed Roof
    There are several reasons you may want to felt a shed roof. The shed may be old and the felt needs replacing, or the shed roof may have been damaged by wind or rain. If the roof has holes in it, this can let in water and damage your shed and the contents
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  4. How to Prepare Your Shed for Winter

    How to Prepare Your Shed for Winter
    One of our many tasks for the autumn is getting the garden ready for the long winter months ahead; a major task is protecting your garden shed from the elements. Some garden sheds may need this more than others, for example if it is an old shed or there
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  5. 11 Ways to Completely Revamp Your Log Storage Shed

    11 Ways to Completely Revamp Your Log Storage Shed
    Log storage sheds are far from the most beautiful aspects for any garden but they certainly do serve a useful purpose. However, when they do start to look a little drab and in the need of spicing up, there are a number of different things you can do to
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  6. Five Tools You Need to Build a Shed

    Five Tools You Need to Build a Shed
    One of the universal truths of living in a house is that there are always projects that need to be done. Some of them are fall into the repair and function department, others in the purely decorative. At time the number of projects that need to be tackled
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  7. The perfect garden escape

    The old shed down the bottom of the garden doesn’t need to stay old and boring and only used as storage, escape the shed life, you could spice it up by turning it into a garden room; a space just for you, as a place to escape to. Perhaps you could

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  8. New Year’s resolution!

    For many people, the garden shed will need sorting out in the New Year. Over the winter we tend to forget about the garden shed outside, find ourselves throwing bits and bobs in and then they end up missing and therefore we end up replacing them. It’s

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  9. What to look for when buying a shed

    What to look for when buying a shed

    As you can imagine, here at Buy Sheds Direct, there are a number of things to consider when buying a shed, the same as everything else that you buy. I suppose it all depends on what purpose you need the shed to provide, whether it is, bike storage, general

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  10. Our New Range of Wooden Workshops

    Our New Range of Wooden Workshops

    Our Heavy Duty Sheds Create the Ultimate Place to Potter in the Garden

    We have add a exciting new selection of garden workshops called the 'Ultimate Heavy

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