Quick and easy trellis Fans
A step-by-step guide for making
this attractive and practical feature
for your fence or wall.
An Englishman's Garden Adventures
Garden DIY: Whether it’s putting up support wires, building some trellis, installing a pond or constructing your own garden shed or workshop, these articles contain a wealth of experience gained from my own garden projects over more than two decades.
A step-by-step guide for making
this attractive and practical feature
for your fence or wall.
Here’s a guide to how I built my own long-lasting, modern styled, timber fence on a budget. Hopefully you will find some inspiration and useful DIY tips.
△ My woodshed, before and after renovation Pages in this post Page #1: Structural Repair ► Page #2: CladdingPage #3: Renovating the roofPage #4: … read more
In this post I will show you how I gave my old cedar roof shingles a new lease of life using a preservative and water-repellant stain treatment.
In this post I am going to show you how cedar shingles can be replaced using only basic DIY tools and a bit of understanding of how cedar shingles are fixed.
As I learned the hard way, cedar shingle roofs can deteriorate prematurely. Here are the problems to watch out for and the maintenance needed to get the best out of them.
After seventeen years of neglect my shingle roof needed a thorough clean. Here are the techniques that worked for me.
In the first post in this series I look at how cedar shingle roofs have weathered in my garden over 15+ years, and how maintenance could extend their useful life much further.
Three examples of sturdy, long-lasting, DIY trellis panels TRADITIONALLY, trellis is any open framework used to partition areas of a garden or support climbing … read more
Trellis Panels in the top section of this 2m fence improve the look, adding texture and visual interest. I used trellis panels to reduce … read more
This is the latest bed I have added to my garden. It is made out of a new kind of wood called Accoya which … read more
The new outdoor kitchen with gas BBQ, sink and tap is finished and christened. (Well, nearly finished: there’s still the cupboard to finish, but … read more