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I have no specific knowledge of bike sheds of the type you're thinking of but I have knowledge of sheds, wooden and metal. We had a fairly large beige and green metal shed installed at my workplace years ago. Both it and my colleagues similar shed I helped to build looked good but were flimsy and needed rawl bolting to the base. They "sweated" badly and so any unpainted steel stored inside is going to stay wet and suffer. I have wooden sheds and they do exactly what you'd want. So I would suggest a small wooden structure with a pitched or sloping roof which should breathe better than metal. I'd also suggest you make it bigger than you think you need as storage is always useful. Finally, the shed at work had a salt spreader and other equipment with rubber tyres. These and rubber fuel pipes on strimmers were eaten by mice or rats which took up winter residence. I've never even seen evidence of rodents in my wooden sheds.
So I'd go wood and maybe go for a floor space of two wooden pallets with a chipboard floor and roof and horizontal overlapped feather edged boards. All stuff you can get from diy and fencing product suppliers and won't cost the earth. A bit of roofing felt and you have a little bike shed to smoke behind.
This is from various suppliers on google.
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Don’t take this sweeping generalisation to heart Londoners but as a green fields Yorkshire man I’d imagine there is a wealth of experience of storing bikes in awkward small flats down there compared to up here.
I’m looking at metal boxes(sheds?) you know the small waist high tools on a tower block outside balcony type...
It doesn’t need a ground anchor or anything but ideally I’d like to fit up to 4 frames and their wheels, separated would be better I guess for size.
Any ideas on appropriate dimensions before I start gaffa taping boxes in my living room?