Lifetime's 11-food wide sheds provide the perfect space for a tool shop, outdoor gear and ATV's, or even a place to park your car. The spacious interior, heavy-duty steel-reinforced construction, and low-maintenance design gives you a durable garage or workshop, and is the perfect solution to your storage needs.
- Storage Capacity: 786.6cubic feet
- Wind Rating: 65Miles Per Hour
- : Plastic/Polyethylene
I have considerable construction experience and thought about building a traditional shed using lumber. However, I decided to go with this product to reduce maintenance and because I wanted something light weight. I believe the shed will do what I want it to do, but what a nightmare to assemble! The instructions are bad, and parts and hardware identification is limited to pictures and drawings. Each section that you assemble comes with a bag of hardware. In that bag there will be several different types of screws and other connectors. The instructions will show only a drawing of a screw and a three letter identification of that screw. The problem is that there is no three letter identification within the bag, and one screw looks much like another. Lifetime could easily solve that problem by putting all of one kind of connector in one bag and then just tell you to use connectors from bag XYZ. Simple. We also ended up with a lot of screws and connectors that were never used. My guess is that they have generic bags of connectors for different products.
One of the roof panels is considerably darker in color than the others. Luckily, it's on the back side of the shed. I intend to contact Lifetime about that. (I just finished the shed yesterday.)
The floor is a snap together affair. It goes together easily, but not straight. I believe that we had some warped panels, and try as we might, we could not get one side to snap together as tightly as the others. Each seam was about an 1/8 inch apart on one end. Not a big deal you might think, but with four seams, that equals out to a 1/2 inch. That's a lot. We ended up rigging up a tourniquet of sorts to draw the panels together, and then screwed them to the floor.
In conclusion, like I stated earlier, the shed will work for keeping things out of the elements. Putting it together will drive you crazy, though. It's certainly not worth the asking price. Building one out of lumber would have been about half the cost. That would have bought years worth of paint or stain. Live and learn, I guess.
Pros: Looks nice...will keep things inside dry
Cons: Terrible instructions and parts identification. A nightmare to assemble because of that.. Jim. Fargo, ND. 2015-07-05 09:39:10