Sheds

 
Can anyone advise about metal garden  sheds? What are the drawbacks?
I fancy having a shed which does not require treatment every couple of
years.
I saw a 10x4 in Argos for about £200.

 JonC wrote:

The heat inside in summer is unbearable!
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London. UK.
London meet-Camden Lock-June 11th 2011

 
I think they make rubbermaid sheds now. The local lumber yard  may be
able to help. If you go to the rubbermaid website they have some sheds.
The biggest shed I seen for them is 7ft by 10 ft on HD website.


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We have one of the good metal ones. But we would never buy one again. they
take a very long time to assemble with so many bits and often poor
instructions. you have to insulate the roof inside otherwise they drip
condensation. and if it's your first time laying a concrete base for it to
stand on, that's hard work, you have to rent a cement mixer as well.

The other problem for us is that the rain runs down the shed and then inside
always making the floor wet, even though we have tried to seal the base with
silicone. only god knows how the rain still floods in.

if you look in peoples gardens from a passing train, you see a lot have
those old concrete slab ones that last forever, but when we checked the
current ones for sale, although they looked smarter than the old ones, they
were *very* expensive.

if i had my time again i would try one of the plastic sheds from Cosco. yes
i know plastic sounds awful, but you have to see these to realize they are
actually substantial. although never having bought one, I would be
interested to hear what people have to say about the plastic ones.

 @mail.invalid says...

Cosco. yes

  Ugly but tough.  We had a private water system that relied on an
electric pump house in a very exposed Scottish moorland position, high
wind and high rainfall. The original pumphouse was a small purpose built
wooden hut that only lasted a dozen years. When it fell apart we
replaced it, with one of those small plastic sheds, about £99 in B and
Q; and bolted it down onto a concrete base. It's still weatherproof and
undamaged after 20 years; very robust.

   Janet.