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That looks great. I'm pondering a similar thing as we need bike storage and the front wall needs replacing. Looked at https://bikebox.london/ but they're not cheap.
Did you go off any plans or just designed yourself, how big is it? Cheers
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Yeah we got a quote from them, £7k for the box plus £2k for each gate (we built a bin gate one end and a people gate the other).
No plans just sort of made it up, it’s a treated timber frame, clad in OSB, painted with bitumen paint. Then clad. The planter is lined with a thick pond liner with a drainage hole connected to a funnel and then a pipe out the side.
The dimensions are: 2750mm x 1250mm x 900mm (length x height x depth) it’s got a doors at each end.
jonheslop
Recently built ourselves a box to store our bikes, it would fit three normal sized bikes. It’s clad in larch which we burnt with a roofing torch for the Japanese shou sugi ban finish, which helps the wood last longer (and looks super nice). Really happy with how it’s turned out. It’s bolted to the concrete pad it sits on and there’s also a sheffield stand inside to lock the bikes to. Plus 2 lever mortice locks for each door.
We were going to commission someone else to build, but was prohibitively expensive, all in I think it cost less than £2k to build (including having to buy a nice Milwaukee nail gun)