Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Albert "Two Sheds" Huntington
I went to Home Depot last night, just prior to the rainstorm, to purchase another shed.
There's an area about 8 feet wide all along the north side of my house between the house and the fence that's good for not much else than little cabinet-like storage sheds. For about $260, I picked up something very much like this, but without the wire shelves. It comes in a huge, flat, cardboard box, which I managed to hoist to the top of my jeep and tie down with about a hundred feet of that free plastic twine they have by the exit. I drove home very slowly.
The outside of the box says something to the effect that you can put this shed together in under 15 minutes. I expressed my doubts to no one in particular, but wonder of wonders, it turned out to be correct. 15 minutes and no tools later, I had a fully functional shed - and just in time for the rain to start.
The shed just snaps together, kind of like legos, but stronger and more interlocking. The only real issue I had with it was that it's built from the top down and therefore cannot be built in place - I had to assemble it on the lawn and then lug it back beside the house to its final resting place. The shed even comes with brackets molded into the sidewalls that allow for the easy installation of shelves cut from regular plywood. It was definitely worth the money.
There's an area about 8 feet wide all along the north side of my house between the house and the fence that's good for not much else than little cabinet-like storage sheds. For about $260, I picked up something very much like this, but without the wire shelves. It comes in a huge, flat, cardboard box, which I managed to hoist to the top of my jeep and tie down with about a hundred feet of that free plastic twine they have by the exit. I drove home very slowly.
The outside of the box says something to the effect that you can put this shed together in under 15 minutes. I expressed my doubts to no one in particular, but wonder of wonders, it turned out to be correct. 15 minutes and no tools later, I had a fully functional shed - and just in time for the rain to start.The shed just snaps together, kind of like legos, but stronger and more interlocking. The only real issue I had with it was that it's built from the top down and therefore cannot be built in place - I had to assemble it on the lawn and then lug it back beside the house to its final resting place. The shed even comes with brackets molded into the sidewalls that allow for the easy installation of shelves cut from regular plywood. It was definitely worth the money.
