New shed - wood or metal?

[Courier265]

Recently had my 40 year old shed taken down and removed leaving me with a nice empty space and a sweet concrete base.

I'm buying a new 10X6 shed and during browsing on the net I've seen
a few Steel sheds.

I'm just wondering if a steel shed would be better than a wooden one,
I know maintaining a steel shed is a lot easier.

Any thoughts?

[duhawkz]

a good quality wood shed

My neighbour had a metal shed/garage and it got condensation on the inside of it in winter, it was quite thin metal as well
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[Sir Clip]

It depends on your budget, but in your case (based on your previous posts) get the best timber framed one you can afford, sink anchor posts into the base, invest in some alarms.

Metal sheds are nice in the summer, but if you go in them when it's cold they will drip like fuck over you and everything in them.

Also, never use power tools inside a tin shed without ear protection!

[Ste]

Not metal.

[linuxyeti]

For the most part, I would agree with a wooden shed, however, if your budget can stretch that far, an Asgard motorbike garage would be a sound investment..

https://www.asgardsss.co.uk/motorcycle-storage/motorcycle-garage

https://www.asgardsss.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1300x970/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/s/asgard_secure_steel_motorbike_storage_2.jpg

Meant to say, we have one of the smaller push bike metal pent shed, nice and secure, no bikes stolen from it.. We did used to have a wooden bike shed on the drive, but after twice having bikes stolen from it, we invested in the Asgard shed, never looked back.
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[grr666]

Get a BIG wooden shed and a noisy, territorial dog. Works for me.
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[Sister Sledge]

Metal sheds are wank. I've built everything from those small Argos jobbys to massive corrugated Nissen-type arched buildings that you typically see at chemical plants. All of them were horrific for condensation. That condensation can be helped by putting heating inside the shed but costs and heat leakage..
Those thinner metal sheds (Argos type) really are poor. Seriously thin metal and self tapping Philips screws make for a poor construction.

Wood is good. If you have the funds make your own because shop bought ones are thin and although joints work they're weak. You can also preserve the timber as you make it which helps massively.
Wood doesn't need a mig welder and a tin opener to fix it should it need it.
If you get a wooden shed be sure to add preservative yearly or better 6 monthly.
Wooden sheds can easily be made secure. Don't just place a lock and hasp onto the doors - you can do allsorts to make them difficult to enter. One idea is to make randon strips of thinner sheet metal (a cut up Argos metal shed for example!) and screw them onto the inside surface of the shed - the doors, the walls, roof. If someone attempts to break in by removing planks then they'll all be screwed to each other internally via those thin metal strips!
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[linuxyeti]

Can't vouch for the Asgard motorbike garage, but, the push bike shed, doesn't suffer from condensation, but then again, I'm not putting a still warm motorbike in there. I'm not against wooden sheds by any stretch, but, I'm also saying, don't rule out an Asgard garage.
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[Sister Sledge]

I'll admit to not knowing the Asgard shed but from experience other metal erections have had some nasty consequences. Not so much the wet inner surface of the buildings and not so much the internal 'rain' dripping from the roofs. It's more about how the moisture destroys electrical gear. Power tools and hand tools would age rapidly if stored inside and I expect bikes would be similar.
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[grr666]

My shed is ventilated along both sides, a 3" gap where the roof overlaps the walls. My main gripe with that is dust,
as the prevailing wind hits the shed square on the side. Next year it's being moved to face the other way in a big
garden redesign which should help a lot. It certainly isn't damp in there. I've had two bags of cement in there for 18
months and I used one of those a few days ago on my slabbing job. Hadn't clumped together at all.
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[doggone]

Somewhat off topic but do people leave helmets and jackets in shed with their bike? (as in pic^)
I know I wouldn't. Not for security so much as mildew, anything you wear gets slightly damp and won't soon dry in a shed except for about two weeks in July maybe.

Wood will age more gracefully than metal and look better, which is important for most of us.

[BTTD]

[thx1138]

salt

https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/bolivia/articles/welcome-to-the-hotel-thats-made-entirely-from-salt/

[sulphur]

What about building one from breeze block? Little diy project.

[thx1138]

salt and breeze block for a nice sea breeze

[cyberglass]

Avoid metal at all cost.... i have one and it rains more in the fucking thing during winter than outside.
all tools rusted toolboxes full of water and anything electrical damp or wet. can be improved by replacing the roof with a wooden one to stop the rain inside when you knock anything.



i wish i had gone the extra and bought wooden lol
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[colink98]

[oouche]

second hand concrete garage most are modular and can be made smaller often free or cheap

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Plastic for me. I have a Keter 8x8 shed and it's bone dry. No condensation at all.

Takes about an hour to put up too.
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[Riejufixing]

[stinkwheel]

A quick google shows you'll get a brand new, precast concrete 10x6 shed delivered and installed for £1800.

Buy once.
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[Sister Sledge]

Concrete garages are great but do they not fall under planning permission rules? I know wooden things are classed as temporary structures - anyone know?
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[stinkwheel]

[Riejufixing]

[grr666]

FWIW my 8x12 shed was £600 quid delivered and assembled. I'm on year 5 with it now, still good and strong although
it had a coat of fencelife stuff at the 2 year mark, mainly because the factory finish was a bit crap.

On planning, my next door neighbour has a wooden outhouse with a jacuzzi thing in it. It's shown as a permanent
building on the land registry, so presumably they had to get planning. I might have had a letter about it not long after
we moved here, but I don't mind about stuff like that too much. My wifes studio had to be approved by planning due to
proximity to the boundary line rather than anything else what with it being brick built. That's about 4.5m square and
about 4m tall. It sits a metre from two different boundary lines in the corner of my back garden but is pretty much garage sized. .
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