Premade Shed for Quad advice?

[UpStateRedNeck]

Does anyone have experience and recommendations with those prefab sheds you can put up?

I'm looking for something I can throw my Quad (grizzly 550), the mower deck for the lawn/trails, a wagon for the quad, and possibly a few cords of wood either under a large overhang, or in the shed itself. So not exactly a teeny affair. I Do have a large concrete pad just begging for a shed to be thrown on it right on my property (basketball court sized).

[burmjohn]

I bought an Amish shed deal, but unfortunately its not cheap, and its no where near as big as you would need it. You could build something, but still, nothing is cheap. You could looking a metal shed? (I'm not a fan of those).

[Single_shot]

Just a thought here...but if I had that big of a pad,I would think about buying a junker but good mobile home and placing it on it. Open the end of it up,build a ramp/door and gut the trailer. Beef up the floor,walls and cieling a bit. Around my area in Pa you can find a junker (trailer that has broken water pipes etc) for sometimes free,just remove it kinda deals. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

[noodle one]

I am building a shed out back now. Before I started I looked at a lot of premade sheds and was not happy with what I saw. They are built very cheap, and cost alot for what you get. I am putting a 16 x20 shed with log siding. and alot of treated lumber because I had to put it on posts. It also has 16' ft Polynesian truss ( gable roof) it has a 9' ft. garage door plus two windows (24" x36") I had to hirer a guy to come in with a post hole digger to do the holes (20 holes) and I hirer a carpenter who worked by the hour and let me work with him.I am almost done with putting the log siding on. I have done this for $10,000.00 . A premade shed of that size will cost you 7 or 8. and I have what I want and am very happy with it. I also had a friend wire it for me for his labor. You already have the pad and if its level you have it made. You can knock off $4,000 right there. All you have to do is ask around and you can find good people who work on the side (weekends and evening.) Do not hirer a contractor because your cost will double. they come in and put it up fast ,but cost more. Hiring someone who works on the side take a little longer and will let you work with him will save you a lot of money. I also got a used garage door for half the money installed. All you have to do is ask. No madder what you put in ,your taxs are going to go up, so you might as well get what you want and be happy with. Sheds are never big enough so put one in as big as you can. good luck.

[nyslowhand]

Not sure where you are located, but check out www.woodtex.com.

Located on Rte14 in Yates county, originally Mennonite carpenters but not so sure any more.

Mine is a 12" x 24" with 12" OC floor joists with 3/4" floor sheathing.

OH garage door, steel entrance door, couple of larger windors and a single smaller window.

Mine sits on a prepared gravel site. Does heave slightly. but nothing where the doors won't open/close.

Love mine! Do wish I'd gone with the fully insulated option.

Like John mentioned, they're not cheap but one of the best investments I've made.

[sits in trees]

buy one of those chinese shipping containers, they come 40 ft or 20 ft, completetly water tight and last forever. there sending them here with their chinese goods en em and we are just stacking em up here, the prices on them are getting lower and lower. bout 1600.00 for a 40 footer.

[First-light]

Had a custom shed built, 12 by 18. I keep the quad, mower and trailer in there plenty of room. Matches my cabin and doesn't look junky.

[sweet old bill]

the china continers seem to be a good way to go. I have seen on another site a guy got 3 of those for next to nthing except the cost to move to his site and he made them into a hunting camp. At my camp I had just a small alum building that would hold the 3 wheel big red and a hand gas mower. I had a 7 foot rod put into the side and had a heavy duty chain go thru the big red so no one if they broke in could walk off with it. Never did have a problem. Used it for over 10 years. Then had a guy give me a car port for a single car that over a weekend I had several old windows to close it up and made a 8 foot front door.

[growalot]

The closer to the "end of season" the Amish buildings go on sale around here....don't understand that...winter is the time everyone wants their things under cover...who knows..... any ways watch out for the metal buildings...hunting camp down the road put one up...had a bunch of stuff in it and we had a heavy snow fall.....flattened the entire thing

[UpStateRedNeck]

Thanks for the advice Fellas! I don't think the wife would appreciate the container thing, but you've definitely given me food for thought as to what I want to do next year. It is nice that I have big concrete pad to start with, all I really have to do is slap something down on there. I'm actually headed out to the wifes home town out in Chatuaqua next week, so going to poke around Amish country and see what they're asking.

[coyoteman]

Check out the Versatube buildings. They would bolt right on the concrete pad. There isn't any wood on them they are made of all steel.

[HUNT6246]

Looked seriously at the premade/ prefab (2 story) sheds and heard tales from friends about the wood flooring rotting out. Decided to go with a wood frame, steel covered pole barn. Ours totals 36 x 36ft. The enclosed portion is 24x 36 with an open 12 x 36 ft. covered porch. 12 x 12 OH door in one end, 8 x 8 OH door in the other, two mandoors and 4 windows. Concrete floor under it all. Firewood goes under the porch along with a small boat. Lawn tractor, ATV, lawn trailers, work bench etc. go inside. No regrets whatsoever. Wish we'd done it years ago. Price was only sightly higher than the prefab stuff and everything is on the ground floor. Clearing the wooded site was the biggest job for our family. Wish though that I'd followed advice of others and put water to the shed when we did the electrical. BTW run 240 volts to your building while you're at it. If you ever want a welder or other toys, it will come in helpful.