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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gill Osborne" data-source="post: 1305549" data-attributes="member: 143965">I absolutely HATE the metal hides at East Chevington :C   It's a fabulous reserve and there are three/four of these hides around the main pool so you get great coverage BUT they are damned cold!!!!  In the summer you chill down and in the winter you freeze after a few minutes :smoke:   Getting into them is incredibly noisy too....no matter how carefully, and slowly, you slide the bolt across it still makes an ear-splitting screech - I MUST remember to take some WD40 along next time to see if that helps! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />    The shutters inside are like this too - very noisy to open :C   The benches are welded to the floor and too close to the shelf IMO and a fraction too low - I'm having to reach up to rest my elbows on the shelf to look out of the shutters.  Perhaps, at 5ft 5inch, I'm just too short! :-O    Apart from this they are great :-O   Spread out well and fireproof against all the yobbos and at least they ARE shelter...which is much appreciated on a freezing February day in a bitterly cold NE gale :t:</blockquote>