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title: "Garden and outdoors"
url: https://our-gaff.com/strand-garden-and-outdoors
description: "Garden and outdoors at Our Gaff. Weather, timber, drainage and the jobs that only work in a dry week."
published: 2026-09-12
updated: 2026-09-12
---

# Garden and outdoors

Published 2026-09-12

STRAND PROFILE

Weather, timber, drainage and the jobs that only work in a dry week.

Running order

- [Treat a timber fence panel](https://our-gaff.com/guide-treat-a-timber-fence-panel)GARDEN AND OUTDOORS — stage 1 of 5

Outdoor work runs on the weather rather than the calendar. Timber that goes down damp will move, sealant applied to a wet joint will not stick, and paint that is rained on within an hour of going on is paint that has to be done twice.

This strand is mostly about timing and about drainage. Water that cannot get away is the cause of a remarkable share of outdoor repairs, and a great deal of outdoor maintenance is really just giving water somewhere to go.

The guides here stay firmly on the maintenance side of the fence. Structures that hold people up, anything that carries a load overhead, and anything connected to the mains are not bench jobs and are not treated as such in these pages.

Open the [weekend schedule](https://our-gaff.com/schedule) to see how a strand of this kind is paced across two days, or the [room directory](https://our-gaff.com/rooms) to find the same guides by room.