Bulletproof shed

In message <10p12ql$30rut$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 13:18:13 on Fri, 13 Mar

Cats can easily get into their garden by other routes.

I reckon the back of the shed is just as aesthetic as a fence. Perhaps more so because it doesn't have fence posts and whatever the horizontal members are called.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 13:32:48 on Fri, 13 Mar 2026, jkn <jkn+ snipped-for-privacy@nicorp.co.uk> remarked:

#1 is bending over backwards to work together with #2, until this spanner got thrown in the works.

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That assumes a degree of co-ordination, which might not be convenient.

To date, the answer to that has been "not at all". Which is one reason it's falling down.

In message <10p1dcc$3aoct$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 16:18:20 on Fri, 13 Mar

The shed supplier has anticipated this, and their design meets all the rules.

A cat can manage an eight foot fence quite easily, as I saw my own cat do it once.

The large dog in hot pursuit provided the incentive.

Is there a difference in ground level from one garden to the other?

If you have two pitched-roof sheds side by side and butted up close together, there will presumably be no room for guttering on both sheds. Will rainwater run off shed #1 and onto the side of shed #2 or vice versa or both?

Different for pent-roof sheds of course.

In message <Wf_sR.258$ snipped-for-privacy@fx15.ams, at 20:15:49 on Fri, 13 Mar

#1 slightly higher

There's only one shed

There's only one shed, and the rainwater will drip onto the unnecessary fence, unless guttering is fitted, which isn't currently the plan.

Ah but yer nay-bore didn't *choose it*.

Build the shed off the fence - i.e. use the fence as one side of the shed so that your side of the fence is inside the shed. If that's not viable, then join the shed to the fence so that there is no gap

I'm looking at tackling a similar scenario. Thinking at the moment of using salvaged roof tiles and creating a rainscreen - some detail and other ideas here:

The shed has all four walls, from the factory. The current dividing fence is completely rotten, and falling down with some of the planks missing.

I do not endorse the neighbours' apparent wish to selfishly maintain their property rights in a spirit of strong unneighbourlyness, but: if they have a fence they actively prevent a situation where it would be "only reasonable" to allow the shed owner to maintain their shed from the neighbours' property. While such a right may exist for an existing party wall, if probably doesn't for a shed.

One may not like their attitude, but this is a situation that they have every right to prevent and an entirely logical position to take. It does actually present a rationale for building a fence. Although it may be that they actually prefer the appearance of their chosen fence to the appearance of the back of the shed.

In either case this would seem to be their absolute right. Subject to planning law if relevant.

This has the necessary details for a typical shed.

That is actually quite important. What it implies, if accurate, is that in order to gain access to the outside of the shed under the Party Wall act the shed would actually have to be built in contact with the existing fence. Which would be quite difficult. Another sound reason #2 might want to keep the fence!

Most sheds I have had are bolted together with coach bolts. The remaining issue is over the fragility of the roof if its felt and pitched.

Push comes to shove, a shed can be dismantled, repainted and assembled in no time.

Or the offending panel unbolted and pulled to one side for paint?

When we bought a new potting shed several years ago, it came with a couple of cans of preservative to be applied after two or three years.

Every few years, Senior Management reminds me it is due, more tins are bought, …..

Modern stuff doesn’t last 20 years. Creosote ( the real stuff) lasted maybe 5 but even that needed attention.

In message <10p3oph$9mpm$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 13:45:20 on Sat, 14 Mar

No, that's about brick-built annexes.

That’s the easy bit. Its moving the contents and sorting all those I didn’t I had kept that which takes the time.

GH

That reminds me: AIUI a shed must be at least 1m from a boundary unless it isn't easily flammable. Wooden sheds are in this bracket.