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Win one of 5 Garden Buildings Manual

Those nice people over at Haynes, has given us five copies of the Garden Buildings Manual to give away to you my sheddies

Haynes is the world leader when it comes to publishing manuals – cars, motorbikes, trailers, caravans, men, women, washing machines and more.

Now, it has applied its step-by-step, fully illustrated format to garden buildings with the new Garden Buildings Manual. Haynes manuals are available from all good bookstores.

An imaginative variety of outdoor buildings, including sheds, greenhouses, pergolas, decking and even homes for pets and wildlife rabbits are covered including nesting boxes, insect hibernaculums to hedgehog homes. Containing clear colour photographs and detailed plans and diagrams, this attractively presented manual will show you how to design, plan and construct your own garden buildings, along with advice on the tools and materials needed for each job. You will discover the enormous satisfaction of creating your own garden buildings that will last for years.

Haynes manuals are always written by experts and the Garden Buildings Manual was compiled by Tony Lush, a freelance DIY expert since 1987 who previously ran a building company. Lush has written for magazines, and compiled instructions and information sheets for large chains of DIY stores, such as Focus/Do it All. He also does radio and TV work on DIY.

In the first section, Lush introduces the reader to different materials and procedures as well as design considerations. Creature accommodations are considered next, from a simple hedgehog summer habitat to a rabbit hutch and dog kennel. Lush then moves on to decking and building a gazebo or pergola. The two largest projects come at the end of the book – building a greenhouse and constructing a shed. Win it now and get building!

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