Recommended Outdoor Sheds?

[ChristopherLutz]

Has anyone had a good experience with a an outdoor shed company? Looking for decent quality with good/solid installation.

I have a sloped yard and whoever does this will need to level a bit (hopefully with concrete blocks.

 

[grissom]

www.tuffshed.com

I have had 2 of them.

 

[Stee6043]

I assisted my father in assembling one of the "Suncast" sheds. These are the all plastic units you can get at big box stores. I thought the unit was high quality, will never rot and looked quite nice. Eventually I will get one of my own.

And....as important as anything I think....they are made in the USA.

 

[scw1991]

I picked up a Bellevue 6'x8' shed from Costco about 4 years ago for $600. It has held up extremely well in the harsh environment down here in Florida. It is a well manufactured product and they had great customer service.

 

[Joe Reed]

www.tuffshed.com

I have had 2 of them.

I highly recommend these. I bought mine from the local Home Depot and couldn't be happier with the product and installation. Even the code inspector had high praise for the product...and he's seen a number of them.

The crew that installed mine is actually from Texas (Dallas area, as I recall). I talked with the boss for quite a while as the other guys were doing the construction and he was building homes before the crash....had a bunch of pics on his phone of homes and garages he had built. I was quite pleased to find that someone building something as mundane as a yard shed still cared about providing a quality product. I'd have him build a house for me...

My 8x12 was installed in about 2 hours (as I recall) - I painted it myself. Walls were prefabbed...roof done on site. All structure (joists) below the floor is galvanized steel. Floor is heavy duty OSB with a coating on it. The door also has a metal inner structure....I don't think it'll ever sag.

 

[classicharleyj]

TUFFSHED...
I bought mine from the shop on 183, around the Beach St exit.
Jim

 

[CoconutPete]

Here's a fun fact - I just went to TuffShed's website. It appears that if your zip code starts with a zero then according to TuffShed ...... you don't exist. At least if you use Google Chrome.

 

[DrB2319]

I bought a Rubbermaid shed from Home Depot a few years ago. Forget the size, 8*4 maybe, fairly small, roughly $400. It was fine, held up to NEO winters, no leaks, maybe minor water seepage from heavy rain. IMO as long as you put these things up right the first time, and don't mess with them most are fine.

 

[jstroede]

Another vote for tuffshed from me. I am a diy'er to a fault, but I let them build my shed. I put the loft in it myself, but I am more than pleased with their work.

John

 

[Lotek]

Just don't get a Tuffshed large enough to need permits, they completely screwed the pooch on my job, couldn't get the permits, gave me the runaround, told me after the fact that I would have to get my own concrete guy, then told me I had to pull my own permits, even though I had in writing that they would handle the whole job...when I finally took a day off to go down to the city and saw what they tried to pass off as a sitemap, it looked like it had been drawn on the back of a napkin, didn't have the setbacks figured in, and was completely unprofessional. When, after 3 months, I finally gave up on them, I had to call corporate headquarters and threaten legal action to get my deposit back. Put me down for completely unsatisfied with Tuffshed

 

[fredybender]

make your own!!!
made mine with Hemlock out of a local mill, with plank & baton style
2 X10 floor joist, with 1X6 no joint floors
Total size 16X10
cost including pre-made roof trusses, electricity and whatever else: 1400$
Sorry no better pic, but its in the background...

 

[BBQ&Love]

Has anyone had a good experience with a an outdoor shed company? Looking for decent quality with good/solid installation.

I have a sloped yard and whoever does this will need to level a bit (hopefully with concrete blocks.

Note: I am the Pre-Owned Sales Manager for the following company. That makes me prejudiced but I can back up everything I say and more.

http://www.ulrichbarns.com/

Don't buy a shed until you see how much heavier duty our sheds are than Tuff Shed. The prices will be similar and we will price match any comparable shed. It's pretty much a no-brainer if you can buy a significantly better shed for the same price. We do offer an economy building that is built similar to a Tuff Shed but it quite a bit less money.

We have by far the strongest hinges in this market. They are not screwed on with screws, but installed with carriage bolts and lag bolts.

Our floor joists are 12" apart with a plywood floor on top. We only use the OSB that others use on their floors on our economy line.

Our wall studs are 16" on center.

We use 30 year architectural shingles.

Diamond plate door tread.

Heavy duty door handle.

6'6" (inside) side wall measurements.

We are a local (North Texas) company so our profits are spent right in your community instead of being sent to another state. That may not matter to you but it does to some people. Of course, that is a moot point if the value isn't there but I am 100% confident we offer a significantly superior value.

I only sell the pre-owned ones here in Cleburne. Your closest store is in South Ft. Worth on 35W. There are about 5 shed dealers within a mile there so go down and check out your options.

Free delivery or free onsite construction to Flower Mound. (no generator charges) Leveled on concrete blocks.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Got skills ?


How about building your own ?

 

[BBQ&Love]

Got skills ?


How about building your own ?

Ha! In spite of my little pitch above, I did just that. Had the skills, 80% of the materials, and the tools. (I also got one from my company.)

 

[NUTTSGT]

Ha! In spite of my little pitch above, I did just that. Had the skills, 80% of the materials, and the tools. (I also got one from my company.)

Honestly, your post sounded like a decent sales pitch. You didn't slam your competitors but pointed out all your shed strong points. If I was in the market for one and couldn't build it myself (and in your area) I'd be looking at your product.

 

[BBQ&Love]

Honestly, your post sounded like a decent sales pitch. You didn't slam your competitors but pointed out all your shed strong points. If I was in the market for one and couldn't build it myself (and in your area) I'd be looking at your product.

Thanks.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Thanks.

No problem honesty gets respect points in my book.

 

[ChristopherLutz]

Thanks to you all for your comments.

22Rifle - I will definitely be contacting Ulrich along with Tuffshed to comparison shop. Buying locally does matter to me - as does craftsmanship.

To the DIY'ers....I fancy myself a pretty accomplished handyman....but, in this case - building your own is only cheaper if you value your time at close to zero. I DO NOT value my time at zero...

I have a long list of around the house projects - sometimes - you just need to get something done.

 

[ryaninmichigan]

Doing it yourself will be considerably cheaper. at least around here.

 

[Joe Reed]

Doing it yourself will be considerably cheaper. at least around here.

Would have been cheaper here too but, like is mentioned above, my time is worth something too. I wanted it done in the spring, so I could get everything done before hot weather. With too many other outside projects do to in the same time period I had to decide to either (1) give up on getting everything done or (2) have someone else build the shed. Having put off building one for about 3 or 4 years already, I finally decided to cough up the money and get it done.

Other factors in the decision were: not having a truck to haul materials would mean renting one, paying delivery fees, or borrowing one (which I avoid like the plague....I had to move/rebuild a few sections of fence in order to make room for the shed and I had to tear down the old shed, so that took up some time as well.

 

[camarotoolman]

Build your own. They are a great beginer project. My students built one each semester when I was a shop teacher.

 

[NUTTSGT]

To the DIY'ers....I fancy myself a pretty accomplished handyman....but, in this case - building your own is only cheaper if you value your time at close to zero. I DO NOT value my time at zero...

I have a long list of around the house projects - sometimes - you just need to get something done.

Everybody looks at their time differently. When I do stuff myself, what I save on labor allows me to do more. Therefore, I feel I get more for my money when I do stuff myself.

This would be how I look at it, to buy a barn, it costs me 1500 dollars. I can build the small barn for $500 in materials. I saved myself 1K dollars in labor, that makes my labor worth what I saved. Or I can spend the entire $1500 and make the barn bigger than what I originally planned.


To each their own and I'll be waiting to see what you think of the Ulrich buildings and what you purchase.

 

[JimVonBaden]

Everybody looks at their time differently. When I do stuff myself, what I save on labor allows me to do more. Therefore, I feel I get more for my money when I do stuff myself.

This would be how I look at it, to buy a barn, it costs me 1500 dollars. I can build the small barn for $500 in materials. I saved myself 1K dollars in labor, that makes my labor worth what I saved. Or I can spend the entire $1500 and make the barn bigger than what I originally planned.


To each their own and I'll be waiting to see what you think of the Ulrich buildings and what you purchase.

I agree, though sometimes the labor is cheap enough that I let someone else do it. That, or I am not capable of doing as good of a job.

Jim

 

[coolreed]

I purchased a 8' x 10' Plastic Shed made by Lifetime via Sam's Club. After five years still there and no rust! Have it mounted on a 4" Concrete Slab. Took me only four hours to unpack it and install it.

Very Happy with it.