Somerset 10 ft. x 14 ft. Wood Storage Building Kit

This shed is well built and serves its purpose very well. Be aware that you will easily spend $400 to $600 or more additional to get everything else you need. Easy to assemble, I put the entire thing together by myself with the exception of raising and securing the rafters and roof. Arrived on the day it was promised in good condition. I had already prepped the site. Built a floor with 3/4 inch plywood for durability. Secured that to 2 x 6 x 14 treated lumber with some cross braces, made the joists 16 inch on center as well, much stronger. Put the entire thing on 4 x 4 treated. You will also have to buy shingles, tar paper, drip edge, roof nails, and caulk/paint etc. I used five bundles of shingles. I also used a starter shingle strip to make things easier. When it arrived I unpacked the entire thing and separated it by section (wall, door, roof, etc) for easier access. Not all of the pieces were labelled, I had to figure out some of them based on measurements. It had all the required pieces plus a few extra. All pieces were in pretty good condition, a few were warped or dinged, but hey, I am building a shed not a mansion. I also purchased extra lumber to make the studs 16 inch on center instead of the 24 in the instructions. This changed how I had to nail the siding on and I ended up adding a few more studs at the joints of the siding. I also replaced some of the wall lumber with 14 or 10 foot sections instead of cobbling together the pieces that come with the kit. I used 3 inch wood screws or 1.25 inch wood screws in most places instead of the provided nails. This made things much stronger but did add some construction time. Overall I am very satisfied with this shed. It is strong, looks good and the 10 x 14 size is perfect for all of my tools and toys. I ended up putting cedar shake shingles on to match the house, that added a lot of time and effort but the end result is great. A fun construction project well worth the investment and time.

Missing some boards I had to go have cut at a local lumberyard. Lots of the lumber that came with it was warped really bad and made it hard to get anything to line up. Would make more sense to not have so many spliced pieces that get put together instead of full length 2x4's. Definitely disappointing to say the least for 2600.00. So far the only thing that has halfway been okay going together has been the floor kit even though it has a bunch of splices as well. With all the hassles it should come with shingles and a roll of tar paper.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Great!!!! I love this!!!! I needed a sturdy shed and this is exactly what I needed.

Instructions should be on the outside such as packing slip would be nice to know how many bundles of shingles or the size needed for metal roof

The shed is awesome...HOWEVER, the fact that every picture shows windows and a gable.....Which are NOT mentioned in the write up...They tell you paint and shingles are extra...also the floor is extra...but no mention about the windows or gables...IT IS included in the phrase OPTIONS SHOWN IN THE PHOTO ARE EXTRA....How is the normal public to know what options that they are referring to??So the cost of my shed, which is not cheap...was increased by my having to buy windows, roof tiles, ramp, floor strong enough to hold a lawn tractor, and of course....paint...

No forklift to get it off truck, forcing us to take it off in pieces.

Ordered 10 x14 to be delivered but it was consigned to a carrier that had no way of unloading it at my driveway. Thank goodness local Home Depot staff intervened and had their contract driver deliver it. Shed design is pathetic! A 10 X 14 foot floor has to be constructed in three sections, 8X10, 4X10 and 2X 10. No self respecting engineer or carpenter would do this. The 14 ft wall is also in three sections, which makes it less than strong as a wall. I refuse to build this way so spent the extra bucks to buy four 14 Ft and four 10 ft. bottom and top plates to give it some integrity. Who ever the genius was that put the package together put the wall joists at the bottom so I had to move all the roofing materials, doors and trim to get to the joist. Pretty sick joke! Also, my bad, didn't see the walls are only f 6 FT so I added a one foot perimeter around the top and put clear plexiglass in it to give me a seven ft ceiling and allow some light in. All in all, I wish I'd just purchased the materials myself and made a shed from scratch. Would have saved money and head aches. Lastly, you have to tear the package apart to find the instructions. Would have been simpler to put them in an envelop with the packing slip so you could read the construction before.

The wood in the kit was bowed and in poor shape. With the wood being in poor shape it was extremely hard to get the shed squandered. The roof kit need to be more heavy duty it was poor and low quality. The instructions are very confusing and hard to understand. Long story short I had to put together a 10x10 and add the 4ft section later. I would not recommend this kit to anyone. You are better off building your own. The cost would be cheaper and you can have a better quality shed......

Overall, we are happy with the purchase. Getting it delivered was a different story. We were notified with common carrier that the shed kit would arrive within a 4 hour window on a certain day. I called early that day and found out that kit could not be delivered by them due to weight restrictions of their lift gate and the need for 2 drivers to handle it. the common carrier was to resolve the issue. a week passed and i finally went to my local HD store where I asked why the shed was in a location only 50 minutes away for over a week and sent to a place that couldn't deliver it? When another trucking company got involved they arrived as expected, on time. However, they had no way of getting it off the truck, so they proceeded to open the box and unload by hand, piece by piece. Everything was there needed to build the shed. I have to say though that the labeling of the pieces is lackluster, forcing one to decipher sizes and make assumptions. They state something about nominal dimensions verse actual but some aren't even close. The quality is what you would expect, plenty of fasteners to build it. Make sure your ground is level or make provisions to support the floor structure (came with kit) as 2x4 floor joists are undersized for this application. Its up to you whether you build the floor yourself with your materials or pay for theirs. If I were to do it again, I would design and build the floor myself.

I had the same experience as many of the other reviewers. the kit came with several missing boards and then several boards were so badly warped, i had to go and get new ones made at home depot. but on one step, with the trim, the Handy Homes company sent trim pieces to another kit i did not buy and the home depot people could not make these items for the kit i bought as they had a unique texture that was not in the store. so i called the shed manufacturer and they sent more trim pieces. but amazingly, they sent the wrong ones again that went to a different model shed. this is after i told them the exact part numbers of the missing pieces i needed from their assembly instruction manual. i ended up just fabricating an entirely different trim that looked halfways decent. but i had to get that trim on as the roof shingles could not be put on until that roof trim was on and the HOA was going to cite me as this construction of this shed had been taking weeks due to above problems. But my biggest complaint is with the instructions and the way they package the kit. the instructions are made such that you can configure it differently, which is good. but its hard for the consumer to find his configuration and then follow the steps for that configuration when assembling the shed. then they do not label the parts in the kit. since there are literally hundreds of pieces, identifying each and every one of them is a daunting project when there is no sticker or marking on the part saying its "ZPT" or whatever. then i found some instances in the instructions where they were outright wrong. when i called the Handy Homes 800 number, they looked up the part i was questioning them about in the assembly instructions and they tell me "oh, thats a misprint. there is no part by that name, the part is actually... " But like everyone else, the home depot store was very helpful and the people who would answer the phone at Handy Homes were polite and tried to help. but sending me the wrong trim pieces after i specifically told them the missing parts to send by using their own numbers?? . but what they need to do is redo the assembly instructions so they are easier to understand, label all the parts, and then make sure the quality of the boards they are sending out are usable and not warped so badly they look like a pasta noodle. but as this kit is being sold now with these deficiencies, i would not recommend it to anyone