Let me start by saying, I rarely leave reviews unless something was such a great purchase that it changed my life for the better in some way... Bad reviews are reserved for products that are so terrible I don't want others to have to experience the same frustration. This is one of those:Unlike some reviewers, I didn't have problems with the screw holes not lining up. My issue was that there were several places that I had to make my own holes (at least one on each piece of the front and back roof pitches and a couple in other random places on the bottom frame holding the bottom of the sidewalls. This meant taking what I'd just installed apart and counting the holes to ensure it wasn't just misaligned... The instructions were a bit frustrating as well in certain places, though not terrible in a lot of cases. That's about the only thing I can say that is somewhat positive...The aluminum is so thin and flimsy that I was able to bend the pieces back into shape that were bent on the end (probably from someone dropping the boxes on their ends) with just my bare hands. I feel it's important to note that I am a middle-aged female with crap for upper body strength and arthritis in my hands bad enough that my husband has to open jars and gatorade bottles for me.It's especially important to note: The screws used to hold this 10'x8' shed together are 1/2" long with MAYBE 1/4" screw heads to be combined with thin plastic washers.We have not completed the roof yet and as a result, I've had to use 4 slide clamps to hold the front and back roof pitches onto the upper frame to keep them from falling forward or backward and ripping out the screws and screw holes. I'm hoping that the roof trusses will actually provide some stability there. Based on what I've seen so far, I'm not optimistic.Either one side panel is too wide or the bottom frame is too short, and therefore, is not perfectly square. The screw holes matched up, so it's safe to say it wasn't just an oversight or misunderstanding of the instructions on behalf of my husband or myself. That piece (or one panel) just simply does not fit correctly. I'm guessing these two issues are part of the reason for the underwhelming structural integrity as described below.The design flaw I mentioned in the title is with the upper side frame used for holding the sidewalls on the top. There are two 4 ft pieces of heavier aluminum that are fastened together by a cheap plastic plug that does not fit tightly enough to hold the two pieces together prior to getting the side walls attached. When I say heavier, I mean that they are slightly thicker than the wall panels, but still grossly inadequate for what they're supposed to help support and stabilize. Still, I assumed that they, at the very least, would have a sidewall piece that would overlap the seam where those two pieces of frame meet. I was wrong...Instead they have the seam of the wall sheets lined up perfectly on either side of the seam line of the upper frame. There is nothing to reinforce the upper frame on the 8 ft long sides nor brace the 10 ft overall width. Even with the walls up, the plastic fastener is so loose that the weight of the walls (which again, are flimsy as hell) caused the whole side to sag. Also, the sides of the wall sections on the two panels that overlap just behind the upper frame seam do not sit flush against each other, leaving a gap that puts additional pressure on one side of the already ill-fitting plastic fastener causing more instability on the upper frame. For those reasons, I've also got a heavy duty slide clamp holding that portion of the frame together to stabilize it.. The front and back upper frame pieces are 5 ft each and are held together with 4 screws each toward the middle on the interior side of the upper frame. Aside from the tiny ass screws with plastic washers, there's at least hope for some level of stability with those.Finally, they provide gloves and suggest you use them. They are thick cotton gardening style gloves and look like they would easily have fit O.J.... needless to say, I've lost enough blood to make me light-headed and almost lost a couple digits.... In all seriousness, I have cuts on virtually all 10 fingers... Working in those gloves proved very frustrating and difficult for my husband and completely impossible for me. My husband had difficulty even using his own, well-fitting gloves to put it together due to the size of the hardware provided... he has also lost a good amount of blood during this process.Conclusion: before I can finish this thing, I'll be going to home depot for heavy duty brackets to stabilize and reinforce this thing so that the weight of the roof (or first big gust of wind) doesn't cause the whole damn thing to collapse and decapitate of us. God forbid we were to add hooks or a pegboard on the walls to hang tools.

Needed some additional outside storage and didn't want a plastic unit. After finding this one on Black Friday for a great price and reading the reviews, decided to take a chance .. very happy I did. It takes a little time to put together and you really need to follow the instructions and pay attention to all the photos as you do. It came extremely well packed, with protective wrap on many of the parts to protect them. There are a great number of screws, a power screwdriver is highly recommended in addition to a regular Philips. Although it may seem a little flimsy as you start to construct it; but once it's finished, it is very sturdy and stable. If you're looking for an outside storage unit that holds a great deal with a fairly small footprint, I would highly recommend this one.

This is the second shed I’ve bought from this company. The first has worked out very well so far (going on a year and several extreme hail storms) and I was in need of an additional one. I didn’t have an issue with hole alignment or needing to make additional holes. I will say that I initially rushed through the first shed assembly, and I placed pieces with the wrong orientation from what the instructions showed. This caused me to believe that there were alignment problems, but it turned out to be user error. The assembly instructions are clear to “pay attention to distinguishing the direction when installing”. I don’t know if this is why other buyers had that issue or not, but with both sheds I’ve experienced a 100% success rate with alignment (once I realized my errors) and not having to put in additional work than what the assembly instructions said I would.There were a few dents on pieces of my second shed, but they were easy to pop out. I caught the delivery driver dropping the package about 4ft upon delivery, so this could have been the cause. Regardless, this only had a small impact to the appearance of the shed and didn’t impact the functionality.I saw some complaints about how flimsy the pieces were. The width of the pieces relative to the cost of the full product makes sense though, and I’m pretty certain the product description was clear about the width of the pieces. Once assembled, it’s all pretty sturdy. I would recommend two people do the assembly, with one person to hold the pieces in place. However, from experience, it is possible to do it alone (I was impatient with the assembly of the first shed lol).Other than my user errors, the assembly was pretty straight forward. I thought the instructions made sense with the pictures being very clear, and the pieces were clearly labeled.Overall, this is a great shed, especially with consideration to the cost.

This puppy arrived promptly and in perfect condition. Assembly was time consuming as there are about a thousand screws! The engineering design is very clever but it is quite hard to build. Many pieces that need to be held in order to piece them together. The door latch screw holes are obstructed and it was very hard to fit the nut in the narrow space and line the screws up to thread them. But it fit together really well, it looks amazing, I just wish the engineering was a little more user friendly and that the hardware to secure to a base was included.