In-ground storage / shed?

9 years ago

We live in a typical mid-terrace Victorian house in London and as is usual we have a small front garden / occasional parking space and a fairly modest back garden. We are going to use built in benches as storage to the back garden together with the obligatory log stores but I wondered if anyone knows of any in-ground shed/storage like structures we could buy?
Doesn't need to be large but it would be useful for kids toys and summer stuff that needs to be dry over winter to not be in the house. Tried google, found a lot of tornado shelters or fuel tanks but wondered if anyone knows of a company offering something like this which is not extraordinarily expensive?

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minnie101
9 years ago
Hi. I'm going to ask a silly question, do you mean ones that are actually underground or do you mean the plastic ones that sit on the ground that you can get like this one pictured from sheds world? They also do bike, bin ones etc
Rob
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9 years ago
Hi Minnie
I need IN-ground, not ON .. ideally don't want to lose any space you see.
If one could sink one of those into the ground it would be okay but i suspect that they would not cope with the pressure of the earth around them or people walking on the lid. I also doubt that they could sit flush with the surrounding ground without water ingress through the lid.
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