[Ian Robinson]

The 3.8m x 2.3m gable roof shed in Zn looks OK , room for the old kitchen table or the old timber office desk (both in the garage) to put the lappy on , the old Brown Build 7 foot tall two door stationary locker (has a deadlock on it from the garage) and for the old CG5 with a camera and guidescope on it and Altux with the 10" newt on it , on either their tripods or permanent concrete or steel piers) with room enough to move about without bumping into stuff.

Permanent polar alignment !!!!

Would free up the spare bedroom (scopes and mounts out of it) and generate some free space again in the garage .... sounds like a good investment.

Heading to Cardiff to look these things over - they have a "display" of assembled sheds.

Can't be all that expensive to mod it to make the roof roll offable (a couple of timber beams supported by some square steel fence posts + a couple of big plastic coasters on each side) and footings for the roof rails and a few odds and sods to make it all secure . Hopefully the roof is assembled as module and just lifted on and secured - the roofs look pretty light from the picture in the price list. (That's what I hope.)

Called the gang in Cardiff today (who said it costs $180 to erect these sheds and it is fiddlely and time consuming !!! .... that's probably money well spent ....) and asked for a quote on the slab (got a slightly sloping backyard) .

They told me to get a proper work shed the same size , I'd have to add $1000 to the price. I am not sure I want to spend near $2000 on a shed that will have to modded to make the roof roll on and off at this stage + the slab.

These panel sheds look good as futureproofing too , if the piers are bolted to the slab, and the shed is a modular construction (walls and roof can be taken down intact as modules) and it is bolted to the slab and can be relatively easily taken down if needed as a flatpack , then if we ever move we can take it with us.