On Friday my shed was delivered from B&Q and it has been sat in the garage over the weekend ready to be erected.  Today my father-in-law and I decided to have a bash a putting the thing together.  Well I have to that in the face of adversary we have done a rather good job.

We came to the shed in the morning which is all in bits in the garage and the first thing that we looked for, obviously, were the plans.  The first (major!) problem was encountered here.  No plans.  The shed came in 3 packs.  A base pack (pack A) which is needed for all sheds and then extensions (pack B x 2).  Therefore, rather annoyed at the lack of instructions I was on the phone to B&Q.  After having left it ringing for fifteen minutes (and not I am not joking here!) I finally got through to Steve.  He said that he has the plans there but couldn’t get them to me.  He had no email (which I also couldn’t believe!!).  Therefore my wife on her way for the weekly shop picked them up.

Meanwhile we were using the instructions that we had from pack B to work out what everything was.  The week before we have started to lay the base for the shed and done around the outside as it were.  It was clear however that the shed had 3 strips of wood down the centre and therefore we would need something in the ground in order to level it out.  Therefore we had some bricks left over and we decided to berry these in the ground with some chippings and dry mix cement, to level it up.  Once these were in the bases went down, rather well actualluy, and then we fastened the bases to each other.

The shed then went up rather smoothly with the bits and bobs accounting for themselves really.  Then came the final rather large problem.  No door hinges.  At this point it became obvious that we were a bag missing, which would have had the plans in as well as the screws for pack A.  Still we had managed to make do with the using my own screws.  Tomorrow I will be off to B&Q to ‘claim’ my hinges and perhaps a few packs of screws from them.

I have to say that I am not happy with B&Q.  Delivering a shed without any door hinges or even instrucitons is like selling it with no roof on, or selling a brush without a handle.  It I had paid someone to come round and fit the shed I would no be well out of pocket.  We will see what tomorrow brings when I head to B&Q.