Positive aspects are visual appeal, with the idea of low outside maintenance, but that is where it ends. Purchased May 2025 during a sale, intending to install months later due to renovations. Shed delivered quickly without issues. Sam's Club did a perfect job at that. Undamaged boxes stored in large garage until backyard was ready to receive shed foundation. Concrete poured October 2025. Three weeks later in October 2025 opened boxes. Part alignment problems, warped doors and panels. Metal L stiffeners do not lay in the wall channels properly and holes do not all lineup. Screws thread into thin light gauge plastic by only a few threads, the slightest torque will strip. Wind vibrations will no doubt loosen a perfectly torqued screw. Some areas that have little to do with overall structure use bolts, like on the doors at the handle latch area, those will hold up better. The door requires a squire tube bracing that is meant to easily slide into receivers of the door. Since panels are not flat this required excessive force and mallet hammering for almost entire length. Damaged the mallet. Use a piece of wood between the two next time. The list is endless. Wall panel concerns halted wall install. Seriously questioning the strength and durability of finished product. The bracing should be designed with bolting from outside in, not install surface mounted bracing with tiny screws into thin plastic. Very much under braced.
Coming from a history of designing, engineering, building of structures, electrical, electronic using every known building material and component, I know when something is built to last. For the weekend homeowner it is likely the shed will not assemble well. The hardware identifiers within instructions are terrible. There is a lot of bla bla bla in provided instructions. Get to the point and stop with all the languages. That can easily be done with the download versions. Better to lay out all parts and hardware then figure out on your own. I actually checked the video, although not complete would say the video will assist most towards a better understanding. All in all, in my book, it's a backyard toy.
Instructions do not mention recommended temperatures for assembly. Made entirely from thin gauge plastic that expands and contracts further messing with aliments. Poor quality thin gauge injection molding and using supplied bracing and hardware questions wind loading. Feels as if one winter storm or summer thunderstorm downdraft will destroy the structure. This shed might do well indoors. No joke.
Cost for the concrete foundation (imagine paying for the labor, forget about it!) preparing ground, laying crushed concrete, compacting, then pouring a perfectly level steel rebar reinforced concrete slab 4” thick to install what is a thin, light weight, poorly designed overpriced plastic shed.
This shed is worth about $150.00 at the most.
Shed remains unacceptable and not completely assembled. Reached out to manufacturer.
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