Title: What is the difference between Outbuilders’ Sheds and Home Depot’s Tuff Sheds
1What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- Our last article explained the difference between
our sheds and Costco sheds. It was quite shocking
as the cost
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2What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- Our last article explained the difference between
our sheds and Costco sheds. It was quite shocking
as the cost, material and labor were extremely
toward our favor. Needless to say, we were less
expensive, better quality and built within hours
versus months. After we released this
information, we were bombarded with questions
about Home Depot and their Tuff Sheds, so here
is the article you all requested!
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3What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- First things first, Home Depot doesnt
manufacturer the sheds nor do they own the
company. In fact, the sales representatives at
Home Depot are not trained too well on Tuff
Sheds. When asking about what they are built with
or what kind of materials, they simply do not
know. Tuff Shed just offers their materials and
Home Depot helps with financing and hires a
person to build it onsite. This kind of
arrangement has many side effects because there
are many elements that are missing when it comes
to custom designing, measuring, professionalism
and the actual building of the product itself.
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4What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- When investing in an outdoor shed, garage, barn
or lean to, its important not to miss any
details as the project could get expensive with
errors, so every little detail counts. When you
are at Home Depot, your choices for customization
are limited from the people they hire to measure
and build on your site to the customizations
itself. Home Depot prefers you do not make many
customizations because they know they cant sell
it. Customizations for a Tuff Shed can become
costly, and they set it up that way to discourage
anyone from attempting to change the simple
designs. For example, if you wanted to add a
window, it practically could double the cost of a
simple shed alone!
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5What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- Home Depot hires a local licensed handy man to
build your shed. This is an added cost that is
non-negotiable. They have to first find one that
is available and then schedule them to come to
your house for measurements. Hundreds of reviews
mention that it takes at least 2 weeks for
someone to get to your house just to measure,
then another two weeks to a month to schedule the
building of it. In some cases, after paying all
funds up front, customers do not get their Tuff
Shed installed for 2 months! This is fine if we
are talking about a large project like a garage
or a mini house, but a shed? That is ridiculous.
Here are some reviews.
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6What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- Another issue we have found from Home Depot Tuff
Sheds were the foundation. Many installers do
not know the code for building in their county
and often ask the homeowner to pour a foundation
prior to installing. Some county codes will want
you to have a permit for the shed if it has a
foundation and if you build one without a permit,
you could be eligible for fines or worse, have to
tear the whole thing down. This happens a lot!
That is why it is so important to have a local
shed building company like us be there from start
to finish to protect your investment from little
mistakes that turn into larger ones.
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7What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- One last issue is the material. Tuff Shed
manufactures the shed parts at their facility in
Redding, CA and ship the materials to your home.
You are at the mercy of a conveyor with
deadlines. The wood choices are not a priority
nor are the materials when boxed and shipped. By
the time the materials reach your home, you are
at the mercy of a green installer whom doesnt
understand how to fix bowed boards or worse not
have the right equipment to install the shed
according to the specs. The installer has their
own equipment and many times will have to delay
the build in order to find missing parts, correct
equipment or worse not know what they are doing.
Not all sheds shipped to your house from another
state come with the proper materials as human
error definitely comes into play.
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8What is the difference between Outbuilders Sheds
and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
- According to Home Depot, The Home Depots custom
shed installers are local, licensed, insured, and
have undergone a thorough background-screening
process before conducting a free consultation.
Sounds good right? Well, not all of them build
sheds all day long like we do. The installers
that Home Depot hires are on call to do side
projects only to make extra income. They are not
full time shed builders! You really do not know
what to expect from your installer. With
Outbuilders, we build 2 - 5 sheds a day. Its all
we do! We know the county and the city codes in
Central Oregon, have the right equipment, hand
pick our materials and can have your shed build
within hours and not months and for less money!
Sounds like a no brainer to me. - http//www.outbuilders.com/difference-outbuilders-
sheds-home-depots-tuff-sheds/
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and Home Depots Tuff Sheds?
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