The Shed Review Guide
A free, printable checklist for judging any shed before you pay for it, whether it's a kit online, a model at the garden centre or plans you'll build yourself.
- PDF, prints on letter or A4
- Six short chapters
- Fill-in worksheets
What's inside
Write your shed brief
Seven questions to answer before you browse: what goes in it, where it stands, and how you'll use it on a wet Saturday.
Sizes, measured
Footprint templates for a ride-on or push mower, bikes, a workbench and garden tools, so you can sketch your layout to scale.
Materials compared
Timber, metal and resin side by side: upkeep, weak spots and what each one needs from its base.
Base options and a cost worksheet
Gravel, blocks, grid and slab, with a worksheet to price your own pad from local quotes.
Reviewing a shed listing: 15 checks
Cladding thickness, frame size, floor, roof covering, door and hinges, fixings, warranty terms. What to look for and what the vague phrases usually mean.
Assembly day checklist
Tools, helpers, weather and the order to put the panels up, so you're not holding a wall with one hand and reading with the other.