Garden Shed is nailed together ok?

demented_2

Hi i would like some advice please on buying a large garden shed. Has anyone bought a shed from Elbec? We need to get a new shed as ours is falling apart, roof leaking etc. I have seen one on the elbec site which looks ok, its 10 x 8 and is on sale for £299. We could get it assembled and erected for another £169 or something like that. The OH has just had a knee replacement and so would not be able to shimmy up and down a ladder like he used to do in his younger days. He has just asked if the shed would be bolted or just nailed together by the assemblers. Its going to be nailed apparently. The question that maybe you guys could answer for him is do you think that the price is right and also would the shed be stable and long standing enough just nailed together. Sorry if i am being long winded. Thanks for any advice.

Tucker

Mine is screwed and nailed in parts. It's about 10 years old and despite the fact I've never treated it, it's still stable.

I climbed on the roof to refelt this year and it didn't collapse, so I guess it's still solid enough.

They must build them all the time, so doubt they'd do it if it wasn't right?

Alias_Omega

I would recommend Tiger Sheds as a supplier, they supplied myself and work colleague with a shed.

I have a 8x6 shed, and its pretty much easy to assemble. I painted the shed when i assembled it, as i knew it was good to go.

Once the base is in place, you need an assistant to hold the 2 sides vertical, and using a 10mm rachet and socket wind the bolts into the 2 sides. Once these 2 bolts are in its pretty much good to go, soon the other 2 sides were on and all secured together.

Then we nailed it to the based. Again 12-16 nails later that was the sides secured to the base, and together.

The next bit was lifting the roofs into place. These come unfelted, so nailed them into place and unrolled the felt. 30-40 nails per side and the roof felt was secured, and tucked under. Then for the end pieces and it was complete.


In all, it took about 1h 30mins to assemble from start to finish, but wasnt that strenous with the support of my wife. Working on your own can be hard..


An other option to have it assembled is to look for a Handyman in the area. Im sure he would be about £50.

markie1980

I used to build hundreds of sheds and some of them came supplied with nails.
I used to give the nails to the customer (if they wanted them) and use screws to build it because they pull everything up tight and can be removed easily if needed.

We used to be able to build a small shed in 40 minutes or a 10 x 8 in in a 80 minutes (when we were young and keen!) so you could probably save some money on the installation. It might be worth haggling on that.

Canucklehead

markie1980 wrote: »

I used to build hundreds of sheds and some of them came supplied with nails.
I used to give the nails to the customer (if they wanted them) and use screws to build it because they pull everything up tight and can be removed easily if needed.

We used to be able to build a small shed in 40 minutes or a 10 x 8 in in a 80 minutes (when we were young and keen!) so you could probably save some money on the installation. It might be worth haggling on that.

Good morning: we've always used screws as well for the same reasons for other applications as well eg. fencing

Canucklehead

savemoney

I built my shed on my own and I aint a advanced DIY'er, granted it was hard holding it up will nailing it together had to use my body to prop sides up

I got my shed from Payless diy chain now no more

My shed was put ona concrete base basically it was a back yard to our house. I made sure the shed was slightly off ground by placing old slate underneath

If you put wood stain on it every year or two and re roof every 5-6 year depending on if it gets worn (cats used to love our shed roof) it should last years. Mine was as good as new despite it being around 10 years old

I even built shelves inside and make use of all the space

£169 sounds a lot to put up a shed. maybe worth asking a local odd job man in local free paper if they do it cheaper



I noticed many of the newer sheds are cheap and nasty, I think is false economy building a cheap shed

27col

If they want £169 to put the shed together they are having a laugh. We got a much bigger shed than that for the bowls club and it was only £50 for them to erect it. They had the whole thing up in about 45 minutes. Make sure that it is screwed and not nailed and if you can't do it yourself then get a local handyman to do it. I have both built and erected several sheds and would always use screws in preference to nails. If you make a mistake with screws you can easily put it right.