Argoose metal garden shed. Don't do it!!!!!!
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I have just spent two days (hottest two days of the year?) assembling a metal shed from Argoose! it's one of those new stylee ones with a textured woodgrain finish.
BE WARNED!!! Blood, sweat and tears WILL be spilt should you get one.
Without blowing my own trumpet, I am quite handy with a set a tools (built own extension, fitted kitchen, plumbing, wiring etc.) but this thing had me throwing a hammer (no really) through the garden fence before I was even a quarter way through the build.
I should have realised what I'd let myself in for when I arrived at our 'freind's' house to see the (8' X 6') shed had been delivered in a box about the size of two suitcases
Other clues to what lay ahead were: a twenty page assembly manual and two 2kg bags of bolts and screws!!!
The whole 'design' is an excercise in how to reduce factory assembly to a minimum, and pass this job on to the unsuspecting customer, in the smallest package possible. For instance, the central roof beam is not as one would expect, a single metal beam; oh no, in fact it has to be assembled from two halves held together with twenty nuts and bolts! that's twenty very fiddly, round headed and just long enough bolts! for one beam!! The sliding doors are made up fom no less than fifteen components. To save packing space they come as single leaves of baco-foil quality metal without any strengthening bars attached. You have to attach all these to the door sheets yourself with self tapping screws.
The whole experience was truly awful ( I had nightmares last night) and I just wanted to say to anyone thinking of getting one: DON'T DO IT! Instead, get a proper shed made from real wood that you can nail together in a couple of hours. They may cost a little more but what price do you put on twenty hous of your own labour?
BE WARNED!!! Blood, sweat and tears WILL be spilt should you get one.
Without blowing my own trumpet, I am quite handy with a set a tools (built own extension, fitted kitchen, plumbing, wiring etc.) but this thing had me throwing a hammer (no really) through the garden fence before I was even a quarter way through the build.
I should have realised what I'd let myself in for when I arrived at our 'freind's' house to see the (8' X 6') shed had been delivered in a box about the size of two suitcases
Other clues to what lay ahead were: a twenty page assembly manual and two 2kg bags of bolts and screws!!!
The whole 'design' is an excercise in how to reduce factory assembly to a minimum, and pass this job on to the unsuspecting customer, in the smallest package possible. For instance, the central roof beam is not as one would expect, a single metal beam; oh no, in fact it has to be assembled from two halves held together with twenty nuts and bolts! that's twenty very fiddly, round headed and just long enough bolts! for one beam!! The sliding doors are made up fom no less than fifteen components. To save packing space they come as single leaves of baco-foil quality metal without any strengthening bars attached. You have to attach all these to the door sheets yourself with self tapping screws.
The whole experience was truly awful ( I had nightmares last night) and I just wanted to say to anyone thinking of getting one: DON'T DO IT! Instead, get a proper shed made from real wood that you can nail together in a couple of hours. They may cost a little more but what price do you put on twenty hous of your own labour?
Baby Huey said:
My next door neighbour bought on of these sheds a couple of months ago.
He spent 2 days building his shed and I spent 2 days watching him build it from my sun lounger, with a cold drink in my hand.
My shed is being delivered this Friday. I have paid the company an extra £10 to build it for me. I have had it pre-treated as well. The time I will save in labouring opportunity costs will be re-deployed towards relaxing and drinking Pimms instead. Just a pity that there will be no one hand to transfer the stuff from the garage into the shed once the latter is completed. He spent 2 days building his shed and I spent 2 days watching him build it from my sun lounger, with a cold drink in my hand.
And the moral of the story is - why bust a gut doing manual work when there is someone on hand to do it for you.
Get a wooden shed every time. Metal sheds are too hot to work in when the summer (briefly) appears, and freezing and full of condensation for the rest of the year.
A proper decent wooden shed will out-last the metal one and provide a far far far nicer place to go about your shed related activities...
A proper decent wooden shed will out-last the metal one and provide a far far far nicer place to go about your shed related activities...
My shed is wooden, and i dont know how i managed without it.
Chock full of bloke type stuff that the other half neither understands, or wants in the house (radio controlled planes, sons Toylander build, old paint, chest freezer)
One word of warning. When you go to le mans, dont under any circumstances let your parents round to your house. They will turn off every switch imaginable- cooker, alarm clock, telly, sky, toaster, chest freezer in the shed etc.
So, when the weather gets really hot, and you wonder why the shed is starting to look like the house in amityville for the number of flies around it, the answer is that you have a chest freezer that is full of defrosted rancid meat that has been stood afor a couple of months.
Anyone for a BBQ?
Chock full of bloke type stuff that the other half neither understands, or wants in the house (radio controlled planes, sons Toylander build, old paint, chest freezer)
One word of warning. When you go to le mans, dont under any circumstances let your parents round to your house. They will turn off every switch imaginable- cooker, alarm clock, telly, sky, toaster, chest freezer in the shed etc.
So, when the weather gets really hot, and you wonder why the shed is starting to look like the house in amityville for the number of flies around it, the answer is that you have a chest freezer that is full of defrosted rancid meat that has been stood afor a couple of months.
Anyone for a BBQ?
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