re: Shed Advice

If it's a 5 year plan, might just go with the cheapest solution for your immediate needs.

I came across a killer deal on the skeleton material for this. Each 12' stick of 4X4 material I got for $8.25. I bought like 120 sticks from a guy that needed 120 twelve footers and he ordered 120 twenty four footers and he needed to offload them. So maybe $200 in the structural steel, I think the siding and roof was around $2,500 plus a few hundred in trim pieces. I built the doors to be solid steel too so a few hundred there. The flooring was $750 or so. It was a lot more economical that I would have imagined. Just need to know how to weld and have the welder to do it.

I'm sure you could build a wood frame with metal siding on it for a comparable amount. Doors are the "trickiest" part. I wanted to do roll up doors but that damn near doubled the cost of the whole project.

3x3 galvanized tube steel is usually about 3/lf so you got a great deal. There’s a place in kentwood called the pipe shop that will cut and fab columns beams and trusses out of it, they do a good job

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I see Tuff Shed is offering 50% off upgrades (windows, vents, shelves, etc.) for October. About to start the process myself.

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I'm meeting with a Tuff Shed guy on Friday. I'm not sold on Tuff Shed, especially since I'm learning of so many other possibilities from this thread, but it's a starting point for me. I believe Tuff Shed is also doing 6 months 0% financing, Home Depot may be doing 12 months. Any time I can keep my money in the bank earning interest, I listen.

if you are in the houston area, Texas affordable sheds did a great job on mine about half the cost of tuff shed.

survived derecho and beryl so its not a complete shite box

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but I really don't have a lot of stuff.

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Wish I had that problem

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Bought a kit shed for cheap

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What brand?

Trust me, I'm going as big as I can. I just don't want to go over $7500, and I have about as much handyman skills as a donkey.

Once I decide on a size, I will be pouring a slab before I settle on a brand, style, etc.

Quote for 12x12 Tuff Shed installed at just about $5000. Good starting point for me. Now I can play with some larger sizes to see what I can do and still stay around the $6000 sweet spot. I will also be working on some more quotes from suggestions in here. I knew Tuff Shed would be higher than most others, but it's a damn good shed.

May be common knowledge to some but Tuff Shed has certain requirements on the slab. It either has to be the exact same size as the shed or have a raised area the exact same size of the shed. They do not require a slab for certain models, though, as they raise the structure themselves if you don't have a slab. I was sold on having a slab, and I was going to pour one much larger than the shed, but seems kind of a pain to trust a contractor to be that precise only to have Tuff Shed come out and have issues with it and prolong the process. Their requirements obviously make sense, though.

Also, you will need a permit. Jefferson Parish, for reference. And, in order to get a permit, you will need a survey. If you don't have a survey on hand, the parish might. If the parish doesn't, you will need to pay for a survey.

Just some other things to consider for those as dumb as I am about this stuff.