Ebay Steel Shed Review & Build | 8x8' Cheap Budget Garden Galvanised Metal Shed Construction | Is It Worth It?
A bit of a departure from our usual projects, in this video we do a steel shed review and share our thoughts on the budget cheap, galvanised steel shed from eBay.
Originally we'd priced up the materials for a wooden shed to replace a rotting 6x8. Tearing that old shed down and replacing it with a new one has been on the cards for a few years, and we'd patched it up to keep it going till this spring.
Unfortunately, a lot have things have changed over the past couple of years and the price of wood and other building materials has risen astronomically, making that custom-built wooden shed we had planned no longer financially viable.
At the end of the day wooden garden sheds inevitably rot, and to extend their life requires annual maintenance which is not high on anyone's list of enjoyable jobs. Plastic sheds have become popular, but time and heat cycles have a tendency to fade plastic and make it become brittle, not to mention I think plastic sheds look like wendy houses.
So the only sensible alternative was a budget galvanized metal shed, and luckily the price of these seems to be lagging well behind the price of other building and construction materials, making them a bargain in today's market too.
Here's a link to the shed in this video. 8 x 8 FT Garden Shed Metal Corrugated Outdoor Storage Steel Roof With Foundation:
ebay.us/KIOXHm
And here are some alternative sizes of it: ebay.us/ZhIbwP
I shopped around for a while and settled on an 8x8 ft anthracite grey steel shed, which just so happened to be one of the better value units available on ebay, I snapped it up.
Expecting a very long wait and shipping from China, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the shed had in fact dispatched from Manchester here in the UK, and it only took 2 days to arrive.
One of the few drawbacks I'd noticed to these cheap steel sheds was the heights listed seem quite a bit shorter than the rotting wooden shed I already have, and I'd quite like to be standing up comfortably inside it.
Knowing this, we came up with a cunning plan to build the shed onto a breeze block stub wall, which not only gives it a bit of extra height, bit raises it off the ground and away from any standing water. This should help secure the lifespan of the shed and prevent it from rusting for many years to come. I'm never expecting to need to replace it at this point.
Our ebay steel shed review is almost completely positive, and the only difficulty we ran into building it was with the runners at the top of the sliding doors. This was the only part of the instructions which was unclear, and we settled on drilling pilot holes to screw into, it worked a treat as shown in the video.
These galvanised steel sheds are available in 6x8' 8x8' and 10x8', so you'll be sure to find the size you're after.
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