Suncast 6' x 8' Heavy-Duty Resin Storage Shed, Sand

Delivery, Packaging, and Contents: Delivery was on time, as scheduled. It arrives in two large, sturdy boxes. Mine arrived undamaged. I checked the contents against the parts list (except screws, washers, etc.). I did later discover I was missing two screws for the hinges, but I had some that worked and even if I didn't have them, I could have picked up a couple at the hardware store for less than fifty cents. Assembly: Instructions call for two people, I did it myself in about 4-5 hours, taking plenty of breaks (it was 95 degrees outside). I also prepared the pad location prior to delivery. The assembly instructions were decent. Parts were well-labeled and corresponded to the parts list and assembly diagrams. Aside from the special tool they include for the proprietary wall screws, the only tools needed are a screw driver, common sizes of wrenches and sockets. Sub-assembly of the roof supports took about an hour. The only gripe I have with the instructions is that it doesn't make clear to assemble two. Skip ahead a couple pages and see that it calls for both to be assembled before installing them. No big deal. The base and walls went up quickly. *Make sure your pad or foundation is level*. A second pair of hands would have made the roof installation easier, but it wasn't overly difficult to manage alone. Doors and hardware went on easily enough and the doors lined up properly with each other on the first try (thanks to level foundation). The left door has sliding pins top and bottom to secure it closed. The right door locks to the left door by passing a lock through holes in the outside handles, there is no latch and the handles aren't all that robust. If you need more security, choose a different shed. This one will only deter opportunists. Short story; Overall, the shed assembled easily, is priced reasonably, and will do a good job keeping your stuff out of the weather. It's not a security shed.

Just finished the last part of the assembly, installing the doors. It took me about 3 days doing it myself a little bit at a time. I took a star off for some parts being a bit warped, and excess plastic molding pieces needing to be cleaned off from mating surfaces or covering holes. We don't get much rain here in Vegas, so I'm not too worried about it being waterproof, but I foresee a problem with the door windows. The plastic window panel is recessed away from the door and although they provide a rubber tube as a gasket, the recessed part will fill up with water with no way to drain out, unless it either dries up days later or leaks out past the gasket. I wouldn't want this if I lived in a rainy area of the country. They give you screens for the front and back air vents, but there are plenty of other places critters can climb right in, mainly where the roof meets the side corners. You'd have to caulk these four spots if you really wanted to bug-proof it. As for security, well, face it. Any decent thief is getting in if he wants to, so don't buy this to protect valuable tools or whatever. The only way this shed would be secure is to be located in Area 51 where it's surrounded by 40 miles of government desert land with armed patrols and motion sensors. If you are doing it by yourself, buy an assortment of Bungee cords, to help get holes to line up when you don't have anyone else to push/pull here and there, especially with the roof panels. I thought I'd never get all 48 screw holes to line up. The space I needed to put it was half-on, half-off my patio, which caused some of the alignment issues despite my best efforts to build a platform level to the patio. I also found it extremely helpful to get a box cutter or Dremel sander and cut off various pieces of plastic left over from the molding process, especially where male parts need to be inserted into female slots. This will save you a whole lot of banging away with a rubber mallet. I caught on to doing this halfway through, and after cleaning up the parts, they simply slipped into place effortlessly.

Perfect! My husband and I put this together, it took a few hours, but well worth the time. We read and used the directions as guidelines, we modified the order as we progress through the building process to fit your needs. Since it's been up we've had several bad rain storms and there is no water inside the shed. I built the foundation with pavers instead of solid concrete or wood and it worked perfectly because once we got the floor together and started on the walls we needed to be able to move the shed to get to the last three roof pieces installed (which in this picture are the ones on the left side) as that was the side against the house. Had we secured the shed to the foundation as per directions, we would never have been able to secure the middle left roof piece. We've secured the shed with tiedowns and weights as precautionary measures in anticipation of our winter and upcoming tornado season. This too was relatively easy to do in little time. The only negative is that of the doors. No matter what I try I can not get the handles to line up evenly. The doors close securely and tight so it has to be that the drill holes for the handles aren't drilled evenly. But this is minor - I'm probably the only one who notices as I'm the one using it daily.

There were so many issue installing this. You need more than 2 people to install. we really installed a xtra heavy duty solid floor and made sure it was square. The directions were confusing. They actually inserted updated directions and asked not to follow certain pages in the book. They were all wrong and we had to go by the book. The most frustrating part was adding the last section of the roof. it would not line up. We checked the square of the building and everything was perfect. Finally, my neighbor came over to assist and he had to wedge his back up against the chain link fence located behind the shed and push on the roof section with his feet to pry it into place; none of us could do it with arm strength. Well then we realized that after removing and reinstalling the roof pieces a few times to try to get iit to fit right, the provided screws would no longer grab. So we had to get bigger screws. Once installed it's a pretty nice shed as long as a big wind doesn't come along. I don't think the screws will work well. To be honest, the floor is the best part of the whole project.

If you are thinking about getting one of this. STOP! The photograph shown here should carry a warning: Beyond this point there be dragons! Ordering was a breeze. Delivery was simply dreadful: two very heavy boxes were dropped on our driveway by two careless delivery people, with a small dolly!. The boxes were torn, the plastic that covers them..torn. I could hear the parts inside rocking and rolling, as the men flipped the boxes to the driveway. That was just the delivery. It went down hill from there. What they don't tell you in this pretty website, is that you will NEED to build a foundation for this shed. Concrete or wood. You will need 'fasteners" which they DO NOT provide. The implication is that you know you will need a foundation and you already built one. This means if you're thinking of saving, think again. I built a wood foundation, a wooden one cost me at least $400 ( granted this is not this people's fault, but I think you should know what you're getting into.) The tools: if you don't already own serious tools, you will need them: hammer, rubber hammer, 2 wrenches, screw drivers, a tall ladder, safety goggles, gloves. The only tool that comes with this shed is a plastic hexagonal tool for the plastic bolts that hold the plastic walls together. Plastic is the operating word here. It's all plastic. Cheap, cheap plastic. It bends, it wobbles, and is warped during delivery. ( They warn you, don't try to build this shed during windy or cold days. Why? Plastic is brittle in the cold, and it flies like a kite on windy days) So, let's assume you still like the shed and are willing to put up with building it. Well, I went along ( remember, I had already built a foundation and was in for over 400 bucks..) putting the puzzle together following their manual: The manual comes in a booklet in three different languages. (Oh, and there is a loose page telling you to ignore steps 38,39, 40,) It lists all the parts, AA, JJ, ZZ, etc. BUT the actual METAL for the roof frame, ARE NOT LABELED. The screws are labeled, the plastic walls are labeled, but the many, many metal parts....ARE NOT, so you have to guess which is which by looking at the tiny black-and-white illustrations!... After I guesstimated each part, I found that THEY PACKAGED THE WRONG SIZE metal parts! Which brings me to the dreaded: CUSTOMER SUPPORT There is a big yellow sheet of paper begging: STOP! BEFORE YOU RETURN IT, PLEASE CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER. So I called, and sure enough. I got the usual automated " your call is important to us...." I waited. and waited, then I got a person. I explained my situation and the kind person says: "you'll receive the part on seven to ten business days'.. I explained to the kind lady that I had all the sh** ( shed) in pieces on my back yard, the weather is not going to hold and I took an extra day on my holiday weekend to build it. I could not wait seven to ten day!... I got a supervisor who, said "we are not the shipper".. I said Please overnight this to me I WILL PAY FOR IT.. sorry we are not the shipper. .. After begging, and explaining.. the supervisor says she will ship the part. I asked overnight? she continued, we will ship the part. Overnight? ... "we will ship the part and send you a tracking number" Overnight? "we will ship the part, give us your email and we'll send you a tracking number" ... Will you ship it overnight? yes or no.? SHE KEPT REPEATING: "we will ship the part and give you a tracking number"....no e-mail received!!!! The product is cheap plastic. Delivery is careless. Customer support atrocious. The experience below, way below expectations. I'm sure this review will disappear overnight, so those of you who read it... DON'T DO IT! SAVE YOUR MONEY! I'm attaching a photo as proof, of what I'm having to put up with for seven to ten business days!

It is a plastic shed, but seems sturdy once you have it assembled. My wife and I put it together over two days. It was hot, so we did a little one day and a little the next. By a little, I think it took me about 6 hours or more of time. That was at a nice easy pace, collecting tools as we needed them, putting some parts together and having to back them out a few times because we went ahead of ourselves and the alignment ended up off a little. We did manage to correct all of those things and ended up with a nice level, square cornered shed. Issues we ran into: As I have seen comment in several other reviews, the holes on the top support beam are not the right size for the screws given. I found some screws I had laying around that were the same length, but slightly smaller diameter and they went in snuggly and will work great. The ones given in the set are too big and I was not able to turn the screws for those two by hand or with an electric screw driver at all. The screws on the roof support frame going from the wall to the peak also had about 20 percent of them were really difficult to get in for some reason. Others went right in and snugged up nicely, but that 20 percent would not go through the hole easily. Unlike the top support beam though, If I manually cranked hard enough they would work through the metal and into the plastic to tighten it up. I just have sore hands from cranking on the screw driver so hard. I also didn't understand the cross roof support bars. I was assuming they went up higher from the instructions, and when you do that they don't fit. I thought I had wrong pieces sent to me. I googled images of the inside of the roof though and found I was trying to put them too high up. Lower there were nice grooves in the front and back headers for those supports to slide into and that makes them the right length. Maybe tomorrow when it's light I will add some images to show what I mean. I have a cement pad that we had added to the back yard for the shed, so it has a nice surface to sit on. That made it easier to get things level I think. My doors did line up and close correctly. I see some others had issues with that. Over all, I think it is a nice shed, and I hope to start cleaning out some areas around the house and moving things into it tomorrow.

Delivered in two boxes. Have some room to lay everything out and inventory. Quite easy to assemble if you follow the directions. CHeck and make sure the hardware count is there (I had to mix and match to get the doors bolted on as they are last but I made it work). I was able to assemble the whole thing in about six hours by myself. I did the foundation on a previous day with some concrete pavers, having a flat level surface is important. Definitely leave the bolts to the main joyce the runs down the center of the roof loose until after you install all the roof panels. It will help give you some play when screwing the roof panels to the trusses. I live in Southern California and assembled on a warm afternoon with the sun out which probably helped as the panels were flexible. I would not recommend doing this in cold weather as I am sure it would make the install much more difficult. All and all it is a good but given the price. As far as it being sturdy, the area it is located (between house and fence) limits its exposure to high winds and we rarely get rain so I am sure it will hold up given where I am located.

I knew what the dimensions were on paper, but the reality is that this storage shed is Large. Two crates arrived and after opening the two boxes, I realized how well organized it was. The packaging was solid, no damage.The instructions were clear and systematic. I completed the sub-assemblies on day one. The shed came together on day two. Go get some heavy duty plywood to cover the floor. Excellent Quality & materials, everything fit together well, the sky lights are awesome and the doors fit just fine. I'm using the shed for storage and as a little workshop. - Two people on this project would be ideal. It drizzled the first night and it was dry.. Great value & Quality