Sheet material for outdoor storage units

[algrant109]

I'm making some outdoor storage bins as the ones in garden centres are too flimsy. I've previously built a shed, so I made a bin out of plywood and OSB, covered the lid with roofing felt, treated the wood but I'd rather have made it out of waterproof no-maintenance material.

Can anyone suggest a waterproof sheet material, natural looking, strong, hard wearing and can be cut and drilled? E.g. a modern substitute for cement-bonded asbestos sheet, but even better? I couldn't see anything obvious in B&Q. Thanks in advance...

[newshound]

How much do you want to spend? What are you storing?

Buffalo board? (Plywood impregnated with phenolic resin and therfore very durable).

I roofed and clad a little outside store with relatively thin plastic coated steel roofing panels from eBay, fairly cheap.

[spuorgelgoog]

Recycled plastic board

-sheet

8' x 4' £60 inc VAT, not sure about carriage for single sheets

Owain

[Stuart Noble]

The bench seats in our local park are made from something new fangled. Pretty impressive.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Google composite decking

Wood decking for people who dont know how to look after wood

its scrap plastic and sawdust compressed together with a fake woodgrain surface.

[Capitol]

IME decking is a permanent maintenance and replacement exercise. My paving had done over 40 years with only 4 pressure washes in that time. The reports on composite decking are a bit patchy, the results seem to vary with manufacturer and climate.

[algrant109]

Maybe £50 for a box about the size of a chest freezer. I think that's what it would cost in plywood. It would just be storing various pond and garden bits and pieces, it's not a feed or compost bin as such.

Thanks, I'll check those out. I also stumbled across the Stokbord as someone else mentioned. I was hoping to avoid anything too plasticky, but if it looks kinda tough and agricultural, and is saving some plastic from landfill, I might go for that.