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Guide to Buying a Shed

Guide to buying a shed

With a wide variety of sizes, style and materials out there, it's difficult to know which shed is best for you. Wooden or metal? Apex or Pent? Is 6' long enough? Or 8'? Avoid all of this confusion by reading our guide to buying a shed and our garden workshops guide.

Walton's Garden Shed Portabase

A unique concept to Walton's, the Portabase is a time and cost saving solution to laying a base for your shed. To be used instead of a concrete base or paving slabs, the Portabase is available in a range of sizes to suit the size of your shed.

Guide to building a base for your shed

A firm, level base is essential when building a wooden shed, greenhouse, summer house, or any other garden building. If your base is not level, then the garden building is more likely to subside and become unstable. To avoid this, read our guide to building a base for useful instructions, pictures and videos.

How-to videos

We have hand picked some video guides to walk you through two tricky processes, "How to build a portabase" and "How to build an apex shed". Try our How-to Videos page.

Planning Permission for Sheds

Do you need planning permission for your shed, or other garden building? Read our guide Planning Permission for Sheds.