Should i buy a metal apex shed or wooden overlap shed? Does the rain make a noise on the metal shed?

Question

Should i buy a metal apex shed or wooden overlap shed? Does the rain make a noise on the metal shed?

Answer 1

gosh, everyone seems to have such a downer on good old tin sheds. At least if you get locked out of your tin shed all you need to get back in again is a tin opener. And tin doesn't catch fire either. Let's hear it for tin sheds!!

Answer 2

Metal sheds are suprisingly flimsy and condensation builds up to a HUGE level in them

Wooden ones need lifting off the ground by some bricks put along both of the long sides and 4x2 timbers lead across the bricks, like a lintel to keep shed off ground, stops rotting and paint with cresote subsititute every other year.

Answer 3

Metal or wooden sheds have pluses and minus metal sheds suffer from condensation, not good if you want to store electric lawnmowers etc, but you can get a lining kit, another thing against is they dent very easily,and I would say not easy to get the dents out, but you can get one which looks a bit like wood, and it isn't prone to woodworm problems, and you wont have to paint it every year.Also you have to get free standing shelves, as the metal is very thin  I don't think they

would take to riveting anything on to them.

Wooden sheds well I've had one for more than thirty years I paint it with wood preserving paint almost every year and it still leaks at the joints, Ive filled the joints with silicon filler, and still it leaks Ive painted the outside with rubberised paint and yes still it leaks, yes time I had a new shed but I will still go for wood.Good luck to your decision.         Alex

Answer 4

I bought a metal shed and regret it. They are very cold and prone to condensation inside, quickly spoiling anything you store inside. You either need to run a small heater in them, or fully line the insides with polysytrene tiling/sheeting (not easy to stick to the metal sides either). Yes, they are noisy too.

I have had wooden sheds in the past and they are far superior, assuming you buy a reasonably good one, not one of the really cheap nasty ones around. You do need to paint them with preservative every so often, but still better than a tin shed anyday.

Oh, and building a metal shed is much more complicated and fiddly than a wooden one.

It's hard to think of anything good to say about metal sheds, sorry!

Answer 5

wooden ones look nicer and are not noisy when it rains, and are not saunas in the summer. Metal ones are flimsy, noisy, boiling hot. Don't forget to fit gutters & pipes to collect the rain water in a butt. Premium grade water for your garden!