Arrow Shed Yardsaver Compact Galvanized Steel Storage Shed with Pent Roof, 4' x 10'

I purchased 4x10 metal shed when it was on sale. It is a great shed for the price. Instructions could be better but a lot of things are there. I assembled a lot of IKEA furniture for my home and this one is maybe twice as hard but if you follow the instructions and follow the logic, it will work. Holes do align, i suspect that reviewers that complain about alignment, did not do it right. The holes do not align because either the frame was not square OR the parts were incorrectly positioned. For me all holes aligned, maybe not perfectly, but with a little manipulation, they aligned. There was ONLY one hole where the instructions showed to use a screw but it needed a bolt and nut. The most difficult was the doors - cross members were difficult and would not align 100% and I had to cut 2 mm off the door trim. The rest was correctly given in the instructions. My only improvement was to buy some foam to seal the gaps because I will be storing plants over winter and need as little gaps as possible. Some tips: - take your time with the instructions. When mounting the sheets, the instructions show which holes will be used later and I missed that and had to unscrew a few screws. - if you are using a drill/driver, set it on lowest setting. To secure the edge trimming, do not use drill, hand tighten. I used a Ryobi drill and set to 4-6 for securing the sheets to the frame, and 2 for the rest, and hand tightened the edge trims. - when doing the roof sheets, do not tighten the screw all the way, that way you can adjust the alignment; but then do not forget to tighten all (do not over-torque) - look at pictures in the instructions to see which side is up (in some cases you can see the orientation from the location of holes). - if you need to install the door on the rights side (default is left as shown in the instructions), then the instructions say install the parts (side posts) on the opposite side. It is actually diagonally opposite for the side posts. - when assembling the cross members of the doors, first attach everything on the center and then do the four corners. Doors assembly was the only place i wished I had help because squeezing together parts and trying to put a screw through was a challenge. Again, it is doable and I did it myself. Holes align, instructions can be better but once you understand the logic, it will go smoother.

Directions where terrible, all parts are damage in a way you have to bend things to try and fit. Screws and bolts are so small it hard to assemble. There is way too many parts and pieces that you can't visualize the assembly. Directions are not clear as day and when you follow the steps items don't fit so then you are stuck. I'd never recommend this to anyone. Now I'm stuck with it because box was thrown away.

I expected pieces to be dented, scratched, and bent based on other reviews and that's what I got. Nothing really bad but it wouldn't happen at all if Arrow would put it in a better designed package. Just some additional cardboard inserts and a few cents worth of Styrofoam could prevent this. I am about 14 hours into the assembly and I am ready to start the last step. If I had some help and did everything right the first time, this probably could have been done in 6 hours. I figure this will take me a total of 16 hours to complete. Some of that time was my fault since I put the wrong panels on the roof and top back side and had to redo it. I also must have missed the part where there is only one way to put the roof supports on because I had 2 of those backwards too and had to take the roof panels off, turn the supports around, and put the panels back on. The instructions are passable. Each step has 8 or 9 substeps on each page. Spread out into more pages with some better pictures would be helpful. The shed itself is, well..., it is a metal shed. I have never put one together before but I have owned them. It will serve my purpose for keeping my mower and garden tools out of the rain. One big problem I had was not the manufacturers fault. This shed is 4 feet wide and I am putting it into a space that is 5 feet between my house and my fence. I was able to put part of it together there but had to carry it out into the yard to finish it and will have to carry it back to beside the house now. You need at least 2 or 3 feet clearance on all sides to put this together so keep that in mind if you are placing it in a narrow space like I am. Another tip is to put on gloves when you are positioning those panels. Yes, it is a pain in the rear to put them on and have to take them off to pick up the screws, but it will save slicing your finger open like I did. Those edges are sharp. Would I ever buy another one? Probably not. I think for close to the same amount of money I could have custom built one out of wood that would be more solid and would fit exactly into the space I have.

Took the 2 of us 7 hours to put together. Was worried it was going to be flimsy when we opened the box because the pieces and siding don't seem very sturdy. But once you put it together, it's fine. Do not throw the foam boards away, you need them! The instructions were pretty good, but could be better. The screws, nuts and bolts came in one huge bag all together, not separated. Then there were a few little bags of mixed pieces. Didn't make sense to me. There is alot of unscrewing and rescrewing things in. It's best to look a step or 2 ahead just to make sure you don't get ahead of yourself. Overall, seems pretty nice so far. I'll update review if we experience any problems.

One of the first purchase I did lately. This shed material it's absolutely just a joke!!!!!very poor instructions The amount of time you need to put together for two people is beyond belief I wish I never opened the package and I would send it back !very upsetting experience!!!

Instructions could be better. Some parts are too easy to install reversed and then holes do not line up for the next step. A very nice shed once completed.

Very good Shed for the price, However as many other reviews suggested, Arrow can simplify the assembly process and certainly make the instructions better. I would give a 2/10 for the instructions.

Far too many fasteners to assemble but decent for the price. Beware of the $120 in lumber you will need (and labor) to build a platform. :) My oversight, but considering the labour time and foundation build, I might have opted for a more labor friendly solution!

A couple parts were damaged and it was prob not from shipping. It was packaged like this because the paint and dents are on the interior of the box parts. Also some holes are completely incorrect and miss drilled. The doors are also nothing like the pictures or what I was expecting. It’s a mess. The doors are terrible and designed poorly with the U shaped cross braces.