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Claire, that should be ROTCFL!

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Or even ROTPCFL... as in Padded Cell!!!

I've just looked at my shed and the door hinges are on the outside. To break in, just take out hinge screws, maybe yours is the same?

Come on Seahorse, are you in yet, we're all dying to know what you found (besides spiders)
Sue

I've just looked at your photos of your plot, and on the one of the shed it does seem like the hinges are on the outside of the door... You'll still need to get the lock off to be able to use the door properly though, so I'd only take the hinges off if the hammer & chisel don't work?!

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Ooh, I know, very poor, keeping you all in suspenders!

terrier - I mentioned way back in post #15 about the possibility of unscrewing the hinges on the other side but as no-one directly responded, I still don't know whether it was a divvy question!?

I was almost in today but unfortunately my autistic son decided he couldn't quite cope with things Monday at the latest though - promise! (And likely I'll find nothing more than rotten and/or rusty old rubbish! )

Claire

Have your allotment documentation ready when you do it. Chances are that the only person actually caught breaking into a shed - will be the owner!

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Please let us know when you get in and what you find. It was easy getting into my shed - it was just difficult hacking my way through the brambles and docks to get to it!! When we got there the door was falling off and half the roof is missing, the shed itself was full of stuff. An old pushbike, some cloches in reasonable condition, loads and loads of glass (some greenhouse and some assorted bits and bobs. I'm still trying to clear it out, takes forever especially as I don't have a car to take stuff to the dump. Managed to Freecycle quite a bit of the glass, but the broken bits are still there. I think there's an old lawnmower at the back, but I haven't managed to get that far yet.

Good point Flum! I'd hate to be led away in handcuffs, lol!

Sounds like your shed was a bit of a mixed bag rustylady In my other shed (and I use the term very loosely!) I found a wheelbarrow that looks useable(ish), a chair, a long dead lawnmower, some kind of heater (also deceased) and loads of bits of wood and glass.

Claire

When you put the hindges and Hasps back on Use coach bolts with BIG washers on the back and two Nuts to lock it on/

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I'm in!

After all that fussing about with questions, then taking a selection of equipment that I could have taken on Fort Knox with, I was in in about 2 minutes flat

I levered off the wood that was nailed across the doors, hacksawed the bottom padlock and (as I realised someone had done 90% of the job before ) pulled off the top padlock by hand. That didn't quite get me in, as I discovered the doors were nailed shut but a bit of brute force sorted that.

Bit of a miscellany inside!

Useful to me:

wheelbarrow
hanging baskets
Workmate (very old!)
table
wood
screws, nails etc

Possibly of use to someone else:

gas bottle
two hamster cages
LOTS of odds and ends of paint
wallpaper
bits of bike (possibly almost a whole one!)

Not a lot of use to anyone:

mouldy curtains
mouldy carpet
world's largest spider

I took some pics but I can't upload them for some reason (not that they are very interesting!!!).

Claire

Yeah!!!

Well done, been dying to know how you were getting on!

Mandy

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Thanks for letting us know - been wondering all afternoon if you had managed it Boy we are a nosy lot!

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I'm glad after all that effort that you got something useful out of it!

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hello after you have sorted your lock out check your roof,because weve just had a breakin ta our allotments and because we had strong locks on they took the roofs of the sheds,honestly it was crazy we thought we had good security and all they had to do was take the scews of the roof ,so easy..apple

One of the grapes had the shed nicked I seem to remember !!

Well done seahorse I almost volunteered to come and do it for you it was so enthrauling

The Gas bottle - I'd see about hanging on to that incase you want to have a gas powered greenhouse heater - is it still worht advertising them to save folks paying the initial deposit??

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Hello apple - what b******s! I hope you didn't loose too much

Don't think I'll want to use the gas bottle - I can forsee far too many scary 'how does this work Mummy?' moments there! If it might be worth something to another plot holder though, I'll have an ask around. I'm not sure if there are any issues re disposing of them (might still have gas in it for all I know!) so someone else taking it would be my best option really!

Claire

Well done, your first breaking and entering successfully completed!! And some useful bits and pieces to make it all worth while. (Pity there wasnt a flamethrower for all your brambles though hey! )

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