Protect garden houses from wind and weather

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Garden sheds should generally be wind and weatherproof in order to provide good storage space for the lawn mower and other garden tools. In order to protect the shelter in the best possible way, a few essential aspects should be taken into account. Wooden garden sheds in particular need special protection.

Garden houses should be properly protected.

What you need:

Solid foundation
Blue stain protection impregnation
Open-pored wood glaze
Tar paper
Gutter
Downpipe

If you are the proud owner of a garden and yours Garden tools would like to accommodate in one of the garden houses to be purchased, then this should of course also be protected from the elements. Not only wind and rain can cause damage, but the sun does its part too contribute to the fact that garden houses become ailing over time and, in the worst case, are replaced have to.

How to make garden houses weatherproof

In regions with strong winds, of course, a solid foundation is required so that the garden houses can also be anchored. In this regard, it is best to get advice from specialist staff at the hardware store as to which foundation is best suited for your purposes. The garden houses should not be built with direct contact with the ground, as waterlogging can settle here - wooden houses in particular are prone to this and rot so quickly. Therefore, you should also consider this structural protective measure and yourself before building garden sheds This saves useless demolition work, which in the worst case would be done with dilapidated, soaked wood on the plan stand. Mold, rot and soil fungus (blue-stain fungus) are certainly unwelcome crops that you are in Want to house garden sheds, not to mention the health hazard which one of them goes out. In the case of wooden garden sheds, you should therefore prefer to use wood that has been impregnated by pressure, because this wood is the perfect basis for preventing weathering damage.
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If it is wood that has not been impregnated by boiler pressure, then you should treat the boards of the garden houses with a blue stain protection impregnation. After drying, apply an open-pored glaze (for example "Bondex Dauerschutz-Lasur").
The roof of the garden shed should also always be well protected. For this purpose, it is recommended to lay out roofing felt (tar paper). Lay this out from front to back over the length of the roof and work from the bottom of the roof upwards. This allows the water to flow away unhindered and does not settle in the edges, which it would if you worked the other way around (from top to bottom). If the roofing felt of your garden sheds has holes and offers less protection against moisture and wetness, then you should replace it.
In the case of flat roof garden houses, the roof should be inclined so that the rainwater can run down without problems. In a pinch, however, you can also attach a rain gutter and a rain pipe.