Recommend me a DIY shed

[kiethton]

Should hopefully be completing on a house purchase within the next 4 weeks and in true PH style am open to a shed to save me the costs of multiple skips and to ensure I'm not having family members wait for my deliveries all day.

I'm totally easy on what to get, age and everything on the condition that its got MOT to the summer, can fit ~10 sheets of plasterboard/wood etc in the back (happy to remove seats) and can be added to my parents insurance for me to drive DOC (my insurance costs are prohibitive). It cant be a van as my parents have car policies and the council don't allow them at the tip.

Budget ideally <£500 but the cheaper the better...

I saw this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/renault-master-disabled-... - the lift and space would be a bonus but I can't see it being allowed in the tip or being allowed onto a car insurance policy as an extra vehicle for a few months.

Well i said no conditions, I wouldn't be seen dead in a hearse and my standards are slightly higher than Toaster Pilot's so it can't have an interior like that panda he's just acquired or worse this:

[anothernameitist]

You are looking at estate mpv or large hatch

http://www.tradecarscleckheaton.co.uk/used-cars

fill your boots

Sure you have something nearby.

the renault master will go for more I think

[jagnet]

8x4 sheets of plasterboard need a Transit van rather than a car. Wouldn't it just be easier to get them delivered? Then a Volvo or Saab estate for trips to the dump with the debris.

[kiethton]

Thanks but am not 100% which of the estate/MPV's boots were wide enough to accommodate sheets, ideally flat

[jagnet]

I doubt there are any tbh. Even the Saab wouldn't get anywhere close to fitting them in, flat or otherwise. As for length, even with the front seats out you'll likely still need the boot partially open. 8x4 sheets are huge.

[lostkiwi]

Old Defender 110. Not exactly cheap but throw the ply sheets on the roof and tie them down to the chassis (no need for a rack or roof bars). Hack it about till done and probably get same as you paid when you sell.
If it breaks in the meantime its cheap to fix and easy to work on.

[TooMany2cvs]

jagnet said:

Wouldn't it just be easier to get them delivered?

This, with bells on.

Any half-way decent BM will deliver them for free unless you're only getting a trivial amount. Best of all, if they get damaged while being transported, you get replacements...

[CYMR0]

That's not a shed; that's an ambiwlans.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[mx5ian]

We used a Volvo 940 estate when we did our house. Everything fitted in it or on it roof with a roof rack and flies under the radar at the tip

Something like this (it even has a roof rack)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-VOLVO-940-SE-AUTO-B...

[kiethton]

mx5ian said:

We used a Volvo 940 estate when we did our house. Everything fitted in it or on it roof with a roof rack and flies under the radar at the tip

Something like this (it even has a roof rack)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-VOLVO-940-SE-AUTO-B...

Thanks for this - looks ideal, dad had one as a child and all so have a soft spot...

I appreciate the comments re. deliveries, my issue is that I just wont be around to accept them, needing to do the majority of the work myself alongside a 13 hour working day is a big limiting factor.

[Matt UK]

Get the biggest 7 seater MPV you can find and take all the seats out.

My wife's VW Sharan paid for itself twice over during our house renovations.

[Shiv_P]

Mk1 Galaxy / Sharan

[Slow]

Pretty please? Overbudget, didnt want a hearse... But my god its ugly!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Cardinal-Hearse-For...

[TooMany2cvs]

Slow said:

Pretty please? Overbudget, didnt want a hearse... But my god its ugly!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Cardinal-Hearse-For...

DO IT!

Can't wait to see the faces as you're shoving sheets of plasterboard in the back of that at the BM...

Oh, bugger. I've just noticed that it's not far from me... I'd offer to go and have a look at it, but I'm afraid I'd buy it myself.

[kiethton]

As tempted as I am by the hearse I don't want to ps off the new neighbours too much (flat) so a sheddy ugly hearse is out (plus the GF would kill me!)

Just looked up the MOT history for that volvo (can't link it to keep) - very rusted suspension (inc. mounting points) as an advisory, reckon it'll be ok come next MOT?

Even then <£400 it'd save me cash regardless....Decisions, decisions!

[nichio3478]

I bought an old Ford Explorer for this for £1,500.

Fell totally in love with the daft old brute, ended up tidying it up afterwards, lifting it, putting some big bd tyres on it and keeping it as a London runaround. Murders speedbumps!

[Hooli]

I recently got given a 2001 Laguna estate, that's the price range that's ideal for a shed

[veccy208]

Two suggestions though I doubt they would fit plasterboard in.
Old shogun/Pajero with roofbars
Volvo Estate of some kind. They are bound to be the biggest estate car?

[veccy208]

mx5ian said:

We used a Volvo 940 estate when we did our house. Everything fitted in it or on it roof with a roof rack and flies under the radar at the tip

Something like this (it even has a roof rack)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-VOLVO-940-SE-AUTO-B...

Ill tell you what! Id have that if I lived closer. Looks like a bargain on the face of it. I love these things!