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Hi Jonathan, thanks for your reply and insurance tip.
I'll look in the archives.
No, bikes are not allowed inside. We can't even take them through the house to the back garden.
We'll ask if we can fix a shed to the wall but they'll probably say no because we're only to going to be there 1 year, 2 at most, and they won't want ugly holes in the wall. We think the drive is tarmac (we're not living there yet).
Allehn

We need to store 2 bikes outside the front of a rented house and need advice on how best to do this please. There is an anchorage point on the side wall of the house but there is no weather protection there and we need the bikes to be undercover. This is in full view from the road unless obscured by cars parked on the drive. A bike shed would be ok if we could anchor it to the wall, which we don't think we can as it's a rented house. So we thought maybe cut a hole in the back of the bike shed for the anchorage loop, then chain the bikes to the loop. This wouldn't prevent theft of the bike shed when it's empty, or damage to the bikes or shed when bikes are chained up in it. We're assuming that a locked plastic bike shed isnt strong enough to prevent theft of unlocked bikes inside. We don't know if a metal one would be, but we would still need to fix it down somehow to prevent it being stolen. We don't know if there are kits available for this.
Does anyone have any better ideas please?
Thank you.
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