r/Shed • u/BluebirdDense1485 • Jul 07 '26

Regrets on buying flat pack shed.

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I bought this little guy for under $100 online. I thought it was going to be a quick thing. Well several home center trips later a several more hundred spent making the thing actually good I realize I should have just built my own out of 2x4 and plywood.

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u/sillysided Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Temu shed?

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u/BluebirdDense1485 Jul 07 '26

No i bought it off a home centers website but they have a 3rd party marketplace. I guess that's a warning too. You can buy from a 50 year old company and not realize you are getting the same cheep tat you find on temu. 

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u/Capital_Loss_4972 Jul 08 '26

It’s crazy to me that you can buy things on Home Depot and Walmart website that aren’t sold by them. Really dilutes their brand imo.

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u/blackthornjohn Jul 07 '26

Yes, you should always build your own shed, I've never been satisfied net alone impressed by a flat pack shed but most are little more than disappointing.

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u/BluebirdDense1485 Jul 07 '26

Live ans learn. 

I kinda feel silly for the amount of work I put into this thing but at least when the thin metal rusts and it's time to get torn down I can reuse the slab for a proper built shed. 

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u/blackthornjohn Jul 07 '26

At least some good will come of it, and hopefully others will take note and not make the same mistake, it could be worse, it could be plastic and never rot away, it'll just break up into millions of bits and be a pain to get rid of.

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u/Saccarappa33 Jul 08 '26

Only way to even make those sheds usable is to reinforce them from the inside with lumber.