Let me firstly qualify this review by saying this is the first shed I have purchased in over 20 years - perhaps my expectations were too high.
Firstly, the delivery driver was exceptional - on-time, polite, friendly and helpful. The shed was easily carried into my garden due to the small panel sizes.
However, these small panel sizes (each side and the floor was broken into two pieces),
also means that it is extremely difficult to align and stabilize the walls, as the poor quality control meant the cladding overlapped the panel edges.
The roof, instead of being shipped in two pieces was made up of eight separate 9mm OSB panels, with no bracing for the sheet edges - which had the structural integrity of a trampoline!
I had to purchase two sheets of 11mm OSB from my local timber yard to get any sort of strength in the roof.
The roof OSB was then used to strengthen the floor, which again is only 9mm OSB.
With the problems keeping everything square due to the small panels, the hanging of the double doors
was problematical, and the very poor quality of the hinges and the padlock hasp led to me purchasing
better quality ones locally.
The two doors had one planed edge, but the other edge was the exposed groove of the tounged and grooved boards, basically two 3mm lips with a gap between - extremely fragile!
With the benefits of bulk purchasing by Shire, these problems could be avoided for a relatively small cost and better quality control.
I expected better for my £600 shed.
Tim Martin
4 months ago
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