Forest Garden Overlap Pressure Treated 6 x 4 Pent Shed

Good product, went together well with excellent instructions.

Ok so to get a 6 x 4 pent shed in wood for under £300 you have to know it is not going to be the best quality wood and it will not be a craftsman solution. With this in mind the shed I bought is up and may actually be weatherproof. Below are a list of good things , bad things and things I wish I had known or see clearly now I have 20/20 hindsight....Ordering and initial tracking was awesome. Arrived on the date it said it was due too, which was very quick BUT a key piece was missing. Both the driver and a note attached to the rest of the parts told me this but both also stated the replacement was on its way. It wasn't, and after waiting a few days I phoned to check it was in transit. It wasn't, a number of calls and emails exchanged the part was finally delivered some 3 weeks later negating all the previous good vibes about delivery.I am not a tradesman or gifted DIY person but I was able to follow the instructions provided which are sufficient and plentiful. It's a building by numbers schema and it works (there are some areas where a bit of trial and error is needed as well as adjustment to minimise some of the wood and build mis-shapes). There are plentiful screws and the parts matched the diagrams to a large degree.The quality of the wood is as expected in a 'value' shed not great. The main struts are not necessarily straight and the featherboard in places is extremely thin but probably most annoying is the splits in boards where nails have been driven in and the very high number of boards with knot holes, some of which fell out during construction leaving holes all down one wall (the knot holes are repeated in every board in a panel making the whole wall full of holes and potentially weak). I found I had to structurally upgrade the shed with additional battens inside and fill each of the knot holes and cover with additional wood to make the panel weatherproof.The door is an appalling fit, it is not cut square and has warped planks in it leaving huge gaps down the middle (I will probably replace it at some point along with the awful cabinet hinges which do not open beyond 35 degrees if installed as per the instructions). Again battening and filling the gaps helped it although it doesn't look straight no matter how I fitted it and the door is too small for the opening which needed additional battening as door stops and weather shield.The roof is OSB wood (wear gloves throughout the build but especially when handling the roof) and fits well. It was light enough for me to handle on my own and securing it to the panels adds additional and needed structural stability.There was a roll of felt to cover the roof 4.4 meters long. It covers the 2 meter roof in 2 lengths but there is no room for error when cutting or securing. One thing I wish I had done was check the roll before accepting it as it was packed under the rest of the shed on the lorry and when I came to unroll it there were clear cracks in the felt where it had been crushed flat. Make sure you get a roll and not an oval shaped roll. The facias like the rest of the wood in this build are knotty pine but are better finished than the featherboard. Watch for knots mis shaping the facia (as happened with mine) I simply replaced as the request for a replacement went unheeded.It is now up and finally finished but looked a bit unsightly so it was decided we would paint it. Make sure to brush the panels down before trying to apply any exterior coating as there is sawdust on every surface.Things I wish I had done... Checked each panel for knots before assembling and not had to move some panels around to hide the poor aesthetics of a 'holey' panelHad more scrap wood around (b&q do a recycle wood section where we gathered off cuts and rough wood etc for a charitable donation that was used to shore up and cover the worst of the quality issues.Gloves for splinters,Forgefast or other self drilling screws are a must (even pilot drilling every hole the screws provided split the wood so quickly and easily)Brush the panels before assembly and check each panel in the layout so you can move them around before screwing any of them in. Fill the knot holes etc or cover with scrap wood before assembly in case they are hidden behind another panel etc.In conclusion: the shed does what it states it is a box to house things in (I personally would not put in anything I wanted to be safe from adverse weather or anything valuable) but if you need a low cost wooden building to sit in your garden this will fit the bill.Do I regret buying it? No. Will I buy another one? Probably not, I will probably take a shot at building one myself as the putting together of this one has shown me how easy it is and how I could make it much better using better quality materials although that will cost more, take longer to build and maybe have the same or similar issues/limitations as this one so its a balancing act...Photos attached

Overall not bad,took a while to assemble as was only me,however destructions not that clear,and ended up with 3 pieces of timber left over, where for the love of me couldn't work out where they were supposed to go.the back came in 2 pieces, the front in 3,crazy!! Some joker at forest must be utilising offcuts,and say this will do.theres a piece of timber to go in the middle of the window as in picture, however, even with left overs,no where to attach it to,and make it look the same.Not disappointed in it overall, its better than some,I only bought it as a quick fix,as not got the time with work,to build my own,like I built my fathers last year.

I wasn't expecting a high quality shed at the price. But thought it woukd ha e at least met the advetised expectations. Very disappointed at the quality of some of the timbers, as you can see from the photo, the base has split board, in fact i had to re-nail all them back down, shame the split price was missing, we had a few other boards split too.. very thin cheap slats. 25 years garantee is being very optimistic 🤣 i gave it three coats of paint tonat least give it a chance. I contacted the manufacturer about the floor, as it turned out.. not an easy task via Amazon, a week later still no response. So basically no customer service either. I guess you get what you pay for. Wafer thin, split boards. No customer service.. disappointed.

Seems sturdy enough for the price. erected by myself although an electric screwdriver is recommended .

Poorly manufactured. Warped frames and other woodwork. Broken and cracked slats. Even when erected and square by spirit level joins are out of true. Instructions very poor, many pictures of things but not clear in vision. It's cheap for a reason.

Brought for my daughter as extra storage space to declutter her home. It arrived promptly and without issue. It was easy to assemble, and was good quality and excellent value for money. Very pleased with purchase, and still has plenty more room for additional storage

I am half way through putting the shed up - i am not a DIYer and i think many of these companies expect everyone to think like them! So it would be better if the instructions were clearer and maybe it would make it easier if every section was labelled (wouldn’t take that long to do). The shed quality is ok for the price but not the best. I will wait and see if it is weather proof. As for the delivery, this was absolutely shocking and i was not given any phone call or text to say that it was being delivered. When it turned up i had to send it away as i was having other work done on my house and hadn’t expected it. Again, it arrived a few days later (when i thought it would) but there was zero communication about this - it turned up whilst i was in an important work meeting - it was lucky that my wife was at home. The driver was rude and when he asked where we wanted the shed, my wife said to put it down the side of our house, his reply was that he couldn’t do this because of health and safety reasons and then just left it in front of my garage. This courier company is a discredit to both Amazon and the shed company. I have emailed the shed company and will await a reply and at the very least an apology. Once i know who the courier company is, i will be following this up with a formal complaint too.