Is an 8x6 shed big enough for all this?

[theironing]

We're planning to install an 8'x6' shed in our back garden and want reassurance that we'll be able to fit in all the following ...

4 adult-sized bikes
A small electric lawnmower
A large-ish set of ladders
A standard-sized kettle bbq
A box of beach equipment
2 Body boards
2 plastic sledges
A pasting table
The usual range of garden tools
A few plant pots

We had all this in the shed at our previous house before we moved, but I never measured it!

if you can build some shelves around it then maybe, otherwise I doubt it

Be a tight squeeze but probably just about.
You may not have measured your previous shed but surely you'd be able to tell the size by looking at it?

Maybe but you won't be able to get anything in and out of it easily.

No

Sounds small to me. Ours is about 12ft square and less in it

dh Reckons yes. He’s very good spatially. He said you would need to rack the bikes and take off the front wheels but you could fit it all in if you are clever with your storage

Personally I’d rather have something bigger

We've got a 8x6 shed. It gets a heck of a lot more crap than that in! We have an old kitchen table across the whole length of the back and stack things on top of it in plastic storage tubs, deck chairs and camping chairs slide alongside the tubs. We have lots of camping stuff underneath the table. We have hooks on the wall, sledges etc hang on them. Your bikes would have to be leant flush against the wall (onto some kind of hook?) and tied or locked together. The only thing I'd worry wouldn't fit in would be the ladders. (We keep our kettle BBQ outside with a bin bag tied around it to make it waterproof. It's done several winters in an exposed part of the Pennines like that!)

My DH sells sheds and he said probably not ....

My shed is 6x10.

It holds a tumble drier, 2x adult bikes, a lawnmower, two ladders, the DIY and gardening stuff (but no other electric/petrol gardening stuff. It's empty enough that I can get everything in and out without having to completely rearrange. The boards and sledges wouldn't be too bad because you could store them on the ceiling with hooks and bungees. I think you'll struggle with all the bikes though. Could you stretch to a 10x6? You could put heavy duty hooks into the ceiling and store the bikes hanging by their front wheels so they took less space.