Pre-built Metal Garden Shed

[carla6]

Does anyone have any experience with those pre-built metal lawn and garden sheds you can get at stores like Home Depot and Wal-Mart ? They seem very practical, but look kind of terrible.

 

[kelly5]

I agree with you about the looks of the metal sheds. I would do what I did which is just buy a pre-made wooden one. Just make sure the wood is well-treated for the outdoors.

 

[cottom]

As a matter of fact I do.... we bought an 8 X 10 from Menard's. It is made of steel about as thick as your Reynolds Wrap foil, and has thousands of bolts and nuts.
We had just got married, and was told that if we were still married by the time we got it together than our marriage was secure.
It has stood there for 11 years now, a little rusty and bent up where I hit it by the tractor once or twice.

 

[KennyV]

As mentioned by cottom... the metal is thin.
Too thin to hold the shape, after a while the doors will not function correctly. And they dent and bend.
Use wood and a proper frame to build on... :smile:KennyV

 

[RobertBrown]

I built a 8'x12' 14' peak and 8' eaves, metal roof and harde panel siding, 3/4" pressure treated floor
6" floor joist into 8" frames on concrete pads, the floor is about 14" off the ground with a ramp @ 15 degrees, cost about 1100.00$ in materials,
It will be there when I go (not withstanding a tornado) as Hardee panels are impervious to water and rot and the whole structure is PT. Because it's on pads I could move it with my tractor if I had too.
I would send pics if anybody wants to see them. Yes it was some work to erect but I did it myself and everytime I look at it I smile. If it was a metal or plastic shed (don't see any metal sheds for sale around here) I would look at it and see the deterioration. Would not consider a prebuilt shed, but that's me, here. Anything that's not pressure treated quickly becomes a termite nest. So you will be repairing or replacing in 2-4 years.
Build it yourself. It's not hard, it's fun:thumbsup:

 

[snapsstorer]

i built my shed in my mind, like 5X, but when i started putting it to paper i would goof it up somehow. So now i am planning mine out on paper first. the city has to approve it before i can build it. they have to deem if it will be a permanent or a semi-permanent structure. once it is approved, i could post it here for all of you.

 

[DaveTN]

Anyone use any of those Chinese Shipping Crates for a shed? I think they are available and can be hauled in like a tractor trailer rig would. Getting them set up could be something else since they are quite heavy. I saw on tv the other night where in London some guy is turning them into "mini apartments". One was turned up on its end and had stairs outside! It would be too high in normal position for a shed if it had tractor-trailer type wheels on it. Still if it was on the ground it would be tough to get it jacked back up again to move. Some of these "Doomsday Preppers" like those things too! Anyone have plans for one?

 

[Carscw]

You can move them with a rollback or a flat bed with rollers on it. Have never used one as a shed but did have one at the river to store things in.

 

[reynoldston]

Does anyone have any experience with those pre-built metal lawn and garden sheds you can get at stores like Home Depot and Wal-Mart ? They seem very practical, but look kind of terrible.

I live in upper NY. I put up two of the metal sheds. They both caved in from the snow load. If you live anywhere that has a lot of snow you will just be throwing your money away. One of the buildings that caved in I built wooden roof rafters for it and that one is OK now.

 

[DaveTN]

I think it was on "Farm Show" site where I saw in their archives where some farmer took some of those Chinese shipping crates and stacked two side by side with a gap big enough to drive a tractor in and built a shed roof over top of them. Made quite a barn or shed! They say you can stack them up like leggos. I think I'll stay on the ground level if I get one of them.