8*6 steel shed

We bought an 8*6 steel shed about 4 weeks ago,

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It was delivered as a 'flatpack' packed in a cardboard! box,transported uncovered on an open truck!,in light rain! One man only, the driver, was present and he manhandled the 8*6 steel shed 'package' off the truck! When we unpacked the shed we found that panels had been dented by the strap holding the package on the lorry,which had penetrated the soggy cardboard.

Umpteen phone calls eventually produced a replacement shed, manhandled by 2 men this time.

A week later and we had unpacked it, (thin panels, stick to each other, bend easy, lots of bits) and put it together, (complicated, unclear instruction book, lots of self tapping screws, plastic washers, lots of screw holes which didn't line up, some didn't take, stripped threads. But it looks good), and then it rained.

It leaks like sieve in lots of places, and comparing our shed to a 'Yardmaster' shed, Argos bought, and erected by a relative, the Yardmaster is waterproof, and obviously much sturdier/stronger.

If you leaned on ours it would bend.

Oh well, especially made for the UK, Canadian made flimsy junk,you just don't know what you are going to get here. Everything is an expensive gamble, twice the price for junk, in the good ole UK !!!

I suppose I could try and seal the leaks, silicon seal under every self tapping screw and panel join ? Or 'Thompsons Roofseal' ?,

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or a different (new!) roof altogether maybe, and add more reinforement internal steel angle bars, and line it with plywood or waterproof chipboard. Maybe I would have done this anyway.

This a new! shed for gods sake.

Or I could cut my losses, (Life's Lesson's, buy what you know, don't gamble), dump it, and buy a Yardmaster, more overtime (yuk), more money I ain't got.

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