YardMaster International Arvostelua 255

i bought a 6x6 shed from them 2 years ago and the base has rotted out i contacted them by email as they are supposed to have a 15 year guarantee i got a reply asking for photos which i sent i then had to phone them to find out what was goping on as they did not contact me to be told "oh our technicians will just say something has been spilt on it" which is un true i have still had no reply from the 16th of september.

This is my second Yardmaster shed. The first, supposedly 6 x 4 was actually about 5.1/2 feet by 3 ft 3 inches inside, the dimensions they give are the roof overhang. It went up easily enough in 1.1/2 days with my son helping although the plans were drawn incorrectly with some of the flanges drawn on the wrong side. We decided to get a bigger one 8 x 6. This where the trouble started. It arrived quickly from Argos. I'm a retired engineer and my son has a science degree so we're both reasonably capable. It took 1 day to assemble the roof from plans which were rather ambiguous in places, especially which screws to put in and which go in later. We assembled the base the next day and bolted it down. The next stage is to attach the 10 or so uprights. Unlike the drawing, when attached at the bottom they just bent and fall over. With some difficulty we attached all the sheet metal panels, but even then they just flop about and the back leaned outwards at 45 degrees. I had to cut and make angle battens for all the sides just to keep them straight enough to lower the roof on.. This operation took 5 of us, just to line up the uprights with the holes in the roof while we lowered it down. This is also where we found we had to remove screws we had previously put in according to the plans and put others in that should have been put in first. All in all it took 4.1/2 days. The parts were badly formed and all the right-angles had opened out to 120 or more degrees. The Roof framing channel was very poorly formed and was round in section and not angled. This made putting the roof on difficult and I had to drill all new holes and attach it with nuts and bolts. The doors went on easily; they were same as previous shed. When finished the shed looks very nice, but it is totally misleading to say assemble by 2 people in a day. If you're prepared to drill and fit screws where necessary, spend almost a week building it and have friendly neighbours to lend a hand, then buy one, but I think the designer should be sentenced to 6 months assembling these and then be required to make alterations to the parts and the instructions.

I too wish I had read the reviews here!!!
The experience lets go though step by step:
I have bought a 13x10 I think 3.9 x 2.9. The instructions say 6hrs for 2 people wrong 10hrs before modifications which will be another 3hrs. The instructions, what an ambiguous hopeful set of pictures !!! I am an engineer who works with construction drawings and machine drawings and these were hard work, I got very frustrated.
The steel sheets, mine have horizontal cross bow difficult to determine if its shape from steel manufacture or press shape either way the sheets bow in the wrong direct and let water penetrate on the overlaps.
The framework, like others have stated once you add a screw do not remove it as its game over and to be honest 1st application is game over.
My roof leaks due to poor torque because the screws spin out when tightened and the shape on the overlaps. I am going to remove the roof and refit using Tek fixings and sealant on every length and hole. £575 this experience has cost me!!!! before modifications.
My biggest gripe and if you take nothing else away, the panels are screwed from the outside, even the dumbest of thieves could remove the screws, remove a panel and walk away your contents, something else I need to address. If yardmaster want to contact me and make good and learn from my engineering experience then i'm all ears, i wont lose any sleep waiting for a response i dare say.

Wish I had read this before purchasing the most expensive long awaited.
( several months) piece or should I say several pieces of metal that don’t fit together. Customer service, well several emails between my son and Pauline, these abruptly stopped once order number given. Still awaiting phone call from the expert dept to assist . DO NOT BUY the 6x 4 metal shed. Hole not aligned, useless, yardmaster are thieves. No communication, product not fit for purpose. Considering contacting trading standards as people will buy and be in the same boat, shed less and penniless. Shame on you yardmaster.

don't want to waste too much time here, as I've wasted enough on literally the worst designed and engineered piece of rubbish I've ever seen, what a waste of time and money. The metal 10'x6' is so badly designed it begs believe! I've got the shed up and it looks ok, but I fixed it pretty much all with self-tapping screws and nuts and bolts just to hold it together, (the supplied screws are worthless and don't fix properly...4mm; after you've had to take them out twice to fix different bits the holes are too big....these are instructed to hold the roof down, hahaha...no chance). Fixings were missing.....good job as their useless anyway......what idiot designed this? I used proper tek roofing screws to sort it out in the end! Absolutely shocking, please, please don't waste your money and more importantly your sanity on this worthless piece of rubbish.

The build quality is really not good and the design isn't great either. Both make for an unpleasant experience putting it together. But it is now up and looks reasonably solid. It hasn't seen rain yet and, judging by the amount of light coming through the roof, I may need some sealant. Would I buy another one? No, I would take more time to look around for better quality, which shouldn't be difficult. Its only 8x6 but it took me 2 weekends plus a bit and at some point you will need help. Even the delivery was not a smooth affair. Shockingly poor from "Europe's Top Manufacturer".

Not happy with the whole experience with yardmaster. Ordered a shed which took more than 2 months to be delivered. It was delivered with several nuts and door runners missing. I contacted them about this and they have spent the last more than 2 months saying they are working on it. So fruatrated with Yardmaster

Brought a Yardmaster Store-All 64PZ Pent Metal Shed 6x4. It is quite flimsy. The guys that put it up for us had to Google how to put it together as they said the instructions were useless. The doors do not close properly. We are having to use cable ties or the rain will get in. No joy from Yardmaster as to resolving the problem.

Took two of us to assemble which is fine but it took us 10 hours to do it! Edges very sharp which is probably expected but just be careful, both of us ended up cutting ourselves and getting blood everywhere lol. Looks good and seems sturdy enough.
Instructions very difficult to understand and the doors are ridiculously stiff even with lubrication. Buy at your own will haha!

Do not buy this absolute joke of a shed , I’ve been fitting windows doors and conservatory’s for the past 25 years , I’ve never seen anything as badly designed as a Yardmaster shed , It’s made from what can only be described as wafer thin bits of tin , felt like I was on Jeremy Beadle , don’t know how they have the front to sell them , There must be at least 2000 screws that arnt worth a carrot , I could go on for hours how bad this shed is ,
Do not buy if you want a good shed
Absolute joke !!!!!!!!!!

No problems with leaking needs to be screwed up tight but not to tight, no problems with hole alignment shed flexible enough to align holes as long as you put roof on last, roof was fiddly and needs 3 people to lift 10x8 shed, instructions terrible to follow, once up really sturdy shed, overall quite pleased. Air vents needed, need to line shed to help with condensation, also plastic corners and embellishments should be the same colour as shed or a colour that tones with the shed not white makes the shed look cheap and tacky.

It took me and 2 helpers 4 days to construct one of their largest workshops/ sheds! A nightmare from the start. At one point was considering taking the whole lot to the scrap yard. I have a degree in mechanical engineering so read through the instructions several times, laid out all the parts in order, used extra clamps and timbers to support but had to give up on first day due to slight breeze! Once up not a problem if you pop rivet all connecting components. Do not buy unless you see this type of thing as a challenge. DIYer forget it!!

After one month of waiting I get a letter to say it will be another 2 weeks before anything is ready to be shipped to me.
I then finally email to ask where the sheds are another three weeks later to be told ring the shipping company, which I did got the run around for a week then told it will be there tomorrow nothing was delivered or a phone call to say when they will be. so two months still no sheds just annoyed waiting for a delivery that never came.

Assembly instructions are useless and the shed is a bit flimsy once constructed. Ideally it needs bolting to a solid foundation. The "sliding" doors are anything but sliding. Two plastic bits at the top of each door that slide on a metal rail. The door grips to the rails, it buckles, twists and often comes off the rail. Because it's so flimsy the door bends easy too as it's just a thin sheet of metal with barely any reinforcement to it. Not worth the money.

For gods sake don't buy one of these sheds unless you are prepared for many hours of torture. The design is unbelievably bad and the instructions are complicated and confusing. The end result is a flimsy tinny thing that rattles in the wind. But you can't send it back as the prospect of taking it down is horrifying too.

If I could rate it with minus stars - the yardmaster would get solid minus 10 stars.
I am absolutely disappointed of extremely low quality of the garden shed they "design and produce". The instructions are very vague if not nearly nonexistent, just a sketch and a brief description. Panels are unbelievably flimsy, made out of paper thin sheet-metal, so you have to be extremely careful not to damage them when only handling. Assembly is like a nightmare, like living hell. No pre-drilled parts fit to size, nothing fits, like supposed to. You need an engineering degree to assemble the shed. Luckily I am a Mechanical Engineer, so eventually I managed to figure it out.
It wasn't so bad with the roof, but got much worse when I had to do fiddling with side panels. Some of them fit quite good, but at least one panel needs to be overstretched to force it into place. After lifting the roof on the 'overstretched' body, some of panels buckled. For my own safety I decided to build a timber frame inside the "shed" to secure and reinforce it. After the very first rainfall I found the roof leaking, so I had to seal it. I deeply regret, that I haven't built the shed out of timber and osb sheet. It would be solid, secure and weathertight right away. Basically buying the "shed" from yardmaster you buy quite expensive, fancy low quality set of cladding. I won't make the same mistake again - I will never buy a shed from yardmaster again EVER.

Overlap of panels don't hold down no screws or holes to do so.holes don't line up.screws dont tighten up just continue turning. When put together can see holes and daylight from inside due to gaps everywhere. Instructions are useless because you screw together and when you turn the page you have to remove some of the screws to fit next panel. They say 2 men 6 hours to put together but you have to stop and ask for parts missing to be received through post. Had to wait for missing bits and Instructions 3 times. Has cost me over £300 for base metiereals. £150 for builder to lay base. £160 FOR BUILDER TO PUT TOGETHER. AND NOW I HAVE BEEN TOLD TO DISMANTLE AND RETURN BY LITTELWOODS WHERE I PURCHASED ON BUY NOW PAY LATER. SO AT LEAST ANOTHER £160 FOR BUILDER TO DISMANTLE AND HAS BEEN GLUED AS WELL WITH GORRILA CONNTRACTORS GLUE. SO WILL HAVE COST OVER £600 FOR METIEREALS AND PUTTING UP AND PULLING DOWN. AND I STILL WON'T HAVE A SHED.PLEASE DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT

Ok, please think twice before going a head with yardmaster shed.. The instruction are very poor better use is for wiping my backside.. Nothing makes sense after several calls to the helpline they advised you need to start from the front. It took beat part of a day to get the base right and true. Another day to build the sides up minute the panels then another day for panels a day for the roof and another day for the doors. It took about all in 5 days to finish the shed starting early morning and finishing late nights. The roof was leaking even with it all fitting as the instructs 5 packs of silicon sealent and then a bitumen paint for arond the base rail....

If you are to take any advice please take mine!
Do not purchase from Yardmaster!
I did through a company called Buyshedsdirect.
I had to save for a while to get my 10ft by 4ft shed being a single parent to 2 kids it was also going to be a challenge building it.
Although When it arrived I waited for the first dry day off work to build it.
Built the roof first as instructed then the base. I was baffled that it was only measuring 9ft by 3ft, had I made a mistake?
No I hadn’t, apparently the advertisement for the 10ft by 4ft shed is the size of the overhanging roof?!?!
I’m not putting my bikes on the roof.
Appalled at the lack of help by the company they were rude and not a bit helpful, no exchange or refund due to no original Cardboard packaging intact which was because of the heavy rain we had. You literally do not get what you paid for. Do not be ripped off like me :(

Like many many of the others that have written negative reviews I would say do not touch with a barge pole if you value your mental health and your freetime.
The instructions are IMPOSSIBLE to understand, the screws fiddly and like many of the others short in supply.
For those who say it's easy if you are used to to these things.....UNTRUE.
My husband is very practical, can build a flat packed wardrobe twice the size of the shed we bought and in half the time. And why, the instructions are outrageously difficult.
Two days later, we are still not finished.