Our new house needs a garden shed and last night at Lowe's I saw the Absco brand steel sheds. 10x12 for $499 sounds like a good deal, but they have some pretty terrible reviews in their home country, Australia. My cul-de-sac isn't exactly the outback though, so do any of you have any experience with these?
Tuff-shed is a local brand that I would look at, personally.
Stefan (Not Bruce) wrote: Tuff-shed is a local brand that I would look at, personally. http://www.tuffshed.com
Their cheapest shed is a 6x6 at $1200...
I'd rather take a few minutes and build my own shed than deal with a kit.
A few years back a co-worker wanted a shed/playhouse so I drew up plans for a two story place that had everything. Seriously, it was cool. I priced out the materials and total cost was gonna be $2,300 for me to build it. She decided she didn't want to spend that much and bought a simple shed "kit" from Lowesdepot for $999. I still had to build it and buy a floor for it. And shingles. All in I think it ended up being $2,000 for a one story shed built of much cheaper materials than I would have used.
tldr: if you can spend a weekend building a shed and have basic skills, you'll be better creating your own.
In reply to KyAllroad:
Is that quote with a concrete floor?
In reply to stroker: it was in 2001 so prices have gone up but yeah. I want to say it was 8x12 with a concrete floor. She ended up with 8x10 on a wood floor.
Javelin wrote:Stefan (Not Bruce) wrote: Tuff-shed is a local brand that I would look at, personally. http://www.tuffshed.comTheir cheapest shed is a 6x6 at $1200...
And given their quality, worth it.
We built a wooden shed kit from Lowe's a few years ago for about 1200.00 plus shingles, paint, and foundation. It's framed with 2x3 lumber rather then 2x4, but I don't have any complaints.
So looking at Lowes site, they have the Arrow 10x12 metal shed for $100 less and it has better reviews than the unit your looking at.
Don't know if you've seen my recent thread about my DIY metal garden shed, but I have about $1000 into my shed at this point ($200 of that is in the air compressor and nailgun) and it's about 10X's stronger and better built than the sheds your looking at.
Would you be putting yours on bare earth or building a wood floor?
They're ok, depends on application and expectations though. Quality of assembly plays a big part in how good or bad they are
They're a little bit of work to put together, the boxes usually say 5 step assembly, but those 5 steps have plenty of sub steps.
I've built a couple of them and similar sheds, what specifically do you want to known?
In reply to t25torx:
Wood floor. I am looking at the Arrow ones, too.
Javelin wrote: In reply to t25torx: Wood floor. I am looking at the Arrow ones, too.
Hmm so plan on that being another $240 into the floor, if you go with 2x6 joists, 1/2" ply, and 3 4x4 post skids. If you don't have a riding mower then you might be good with 2x4 joists, to save a little cost.
t25torx wrote: So looking at Lowes site, they have the Arrow 10x12 metal shed for $100 less and it has better reviews than the unit your looking at. Don't know if you've seen my recent thread about my DIY metal garden shed, but I have about $1000 into my shed at this point ($200 of that is in the air compressor and nailgun) and it's about 10X's stronger and better built than the sheds your looking at. Would you be putting yours on bare earth or building a wood floor?
I have two of these, the metal's thin and they feel kinda cheap, but they've held up well. One even survived a hurricane...it tried to lift off and only the stuff inside kept it from flying away, but it survived 
t25torx wrote:Javelin wrote: In reply to t25torx: Wood floor. I am looking at the Arrow ones, too.Hmm so plan on that being another $240 into the floor, if you go with 2x6 joists, 1/2" ply, and 3 4x4 post skids. If you don't have a riding mower then you might be good with 2x4 joists, to save a little cost.
When I built mine 20 years ago, I laid down 4 12' 4x4's and then screwed 8' 5/4 deck boards to them. Still as solid as ever after 20 years of garden tractors and snow blowers going in and out.
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