Got these......

burnt toast · 26-10-2011, 02:45 PM

From e-bay, for a very good price. Dismantled & stashed at the moment, will erect next spring (hubby doesnt know yet!!) Darker one is full size shed, but only 50" high. Got them for a really good price. I know where they are going but dont know who's going to live in them yet

Easter Bunny · 26-10-2011, 04:27 PM

They are brilliant. How did you manage to hide them from hubby?

I never seem to get any bargains

**Bindi** · 26-10-2011, 05:37 PM

Lynn they are brilliant, maybe you could convince hubby to put s bit of insulation in there when he gets around to errecting them- tell him it'll save on the leccy bill

emma_mcraf · 26-10-2011, 06:11 PM

They're fabulous! Wish I had room in the garden for one......

lynnedit · 27-10-2011, 05:35 AM

Very nice!

Pussygalore · 27-10-2011, 07:59 AM

they look well made and strong which makes a change, most of the shop ones are rubbish, maybe someone had a handy hubby, they should last for years. I'll have to start looking for something like that for my sully if we don't go for a shed.

burnt toast · 27-10-2011, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Pussygalore

they look well made and strong which makes a change, most of the shop ones are rubbish, maybe someone had a handy hubby, they should last for years. I'll have to start looking for something like that for my sully if we don't go for a shed.

How about a playhouse Ann? or a chicken coup? They do some decent size ones & you dont need the full height. (Ive seen loads come up & go for a song on e-bay)

burnt toast · 27-10-2011, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by LYNNEEASTER

They are brilliant. How did you manage to hide them from hubby?

I never seem to get any bargains

It was really spooky, same seller, happened to be in the same postcode area as me- only 4 miles away! Buyer was supposed to dismantle & collect, so I contacted them to ask if I could come round & pay Sun morning if I won them, take the smaller one in car but collect the bigger one when I had borrowed works van & they said if I won them they would dismantle & deliver for free as I was so close! Even better hubby was out!! I have a big garden. so easy to hide.

& yes Bindi will definately insulate them - I was pleased with the height, as both will take a lamp. I wanted something heavy as paranoid about recent thefts of torts being taken - in their huts

Pussygalore · 27-10-2011, 12:21 PM

Bolder is only a year old so it will be a few years before he's outgrown his brick coldframe and we can extend into the next one when the time comes. I was looking at the adults (gone now) coldframe and think we may try to see if it will fit in bolders big cold frame, if so it could have the ceramic in it and it would be a nice house for him. At the moment he has a hedghog house but when he's in there he's in the dark and he will hide up, at least with a small cold frame in a big one he'll still be in the light (if that makes sense). There's a row of enormous old brick frames each about 10ft x 5ft, hubby made a new split lid for the end one, half is open wire and the other has perspex but I can leave it open if wanted as there's a wire roof under the perpsex one. The open side is turfed and the other paving slabs/sand and soil, in principle all we need to do to enlarge is to knock through into the next, Bolders nice and safe in there untill he gets bigger and it gets all of the sun (if any). The shed or similar would be for when he's big enough to have a proper outside garden without the wired top.

burnt toast · 27-10-2011, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Pussygalore

Bolder is only a year old so it will be a few years before he's outgrown his brick coldframe and we can extend into the next one when the time comes. I was looking at the adults (gone now) coldframe and think we may try to see if it will fit in bolders big cold frame, if so it could have the ceramic in it and it would be a nice house for him. At the moment he has a hedghog house but when he's in there he's in the dark and he will hide up, at least with a small cold frame in a big one he'll still be in the light (if that makes sense). There's a row of enormous old brick frames each about 10ft x 5ft, hubby made a new split lid for the end one, half is open wire and the other has perspex but I can leave it open if wanted as there's a wire roof under the perpsex one. The open side is turfed and the other paving slabs/sand and soil, in principle all we need to do to enlarge is to knock through into the next, Bolders nice and safe in there untill he gets bigger and it gets all of the sun (if any). The shed or similar would be for when he's big enough to have a proper outside garden without the wired top.

Yes I get the idea, sounds like he's sorted for a few years yet then Ann.

26-10-2011, 02:45 PM	#1
burnt toast Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5,246	Got these...... From e-bay, for a very good price. Dismantled & stashed at the moment, will erect next spring (hubby doesnt know yet!!) Darker one is full size shed, but only 50" high. Got them for a really good price. I know where they are going but dont know who's going to live in them yet

26-10-2011, 04:27 PM	#2
Easter Bunny Senior Member Adult Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Kent Posts: 5,337	They are brilliant. How did you manage to hide them from hubby? I never seem to get any bargains __________________ Lynne x

26-10-2011, 05:37 PM	#3
Bindi Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hampshire Posts: 11,157	Lynn they are brilliant, maybe you could convince hubby to put s bit of insulation in there when he gets around to errecting them- tell him it'll save on the leccy bill __________________

26-10-2011, 06:11 PM	#4
emma_mcraf Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Devon Posts: 11,365	They're fabulous! Wish I had room in the garden for one...... __________________ Emma Testudo Hermanni 5.12.2:Theo, Tamara, Tabitha, Harriet, Isabelle, Clara, Oscar, Hugo, Oliver, Florence, Arabella, Esmé, Aurelia, Felicia, Claudia, Atticus, Celestia, Amaris, Tristan and Clementine Budgies: Jasper, Ivo, Otis, Henry, Louie and Luca Doggies: 1.1.0 Chester and Lottie

27-10-2011, 05:35 AM	#5
lynnedit Member Hatched Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Washington State, USA Posts: 332	Very nice! __________________ Lynne Horsfields 1.3.0 Ornate box turtle 0.1.0 Pacific NW, US

27-10-2011, 07:59 AM	#6
Pussygalore Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge Posts: 6,479	they look well made and strong which makes a change, most of the shop ones are rubbish, maybe someone had a handy hubby, they should last for years. I'll have to start looking for something like that for my sully if we don't go for a shed.

27-10-2011, 12:21 PM	#9
Pussygalore Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge Posts: 6,479	Bolder is only a year old so it will be a few years before he's outgrown his brick coldframe and we can extend into the next one when the time comes. I was looking at the adults (gone now) coldframe and think we may try to see if it will fit in bolders big cold frame, if so it could have the ceramic in it and it would be a nice house for him. At the moment he has a hedghog house but when he's in there he's in the dark and he will hide up, at least with a small cold frame in a big one he'll still be in the light (if that makes sense). There's a row of enormous old brick frames each about 10ft x 5ft, hubby made a new split lid for the end one, half is open wire and the other has perspex but I can leave it open if wanted as there's a wire roof under the perpsex one. The open side is turfed and the other paving slabs/sand and soil, in principle all we need to do to enlarge is to knock through into the next, Bolders nice and safe in there untill he gets bigger and it gets all of the sun (if any). The shed or similar would be for when he's big enough to have a proper outside garden without the wired top.

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