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About this product
Product Identifiers
BrandWestwood
MPNA076036
EAN5055418318976
eBay Product ID (ePID)28031188852
Product Key Features
MaterialMetal
TypeGarden Sheds
Roof ShapeApex
Additional Product Features
Custom BundleNo
Ratings and reviews
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- 27 Sep, 2016Most favourable review
Don't know what all the fuss is about...
Having read the bad reviews I was dreading building this, but truth is it's not as bad as some may make out. Yes it's fiddly with hundreds of screws, but I only found a few holes that needed re-drilled, most screws went in fine with a screwdriver and some brute force. The instructions are ok, you can make out what's going on, but what I found was it's easier to put up the 4 corner panels, do the support rails then the rest of the panels, I managed to do it that way myself with no help, until I needed a hand to lift the roof on. Don't build in the wind as the panels aren't too sturdy (they're fine when the thing is complete though). Overall, decent enough quality for the price, straightforward to build if you read the instructions first and not as much of a complete pain as some make out.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 05 Aug, 2019Most critical review
Great shed but do the right thing and get SOMEONE ELSE to build it for you!
Let’s start by saying I have given this product three stars because it is what it says on the tin, a metal shed, that you self-erect and can store things in. It was green as advertised. It turned up within the timescales stated, and on the three questions asked: 1. Would I recommend it. Yes, it’s a good shed (so far) 2. Is it good value. Yes 3. Is it good quality. It’s not bad so I cannot say no, so again a ‘yes’ So on that basis I would say this shed is ‘OK’ and well worthy of three stars. That’s the good stuff over with. What seems to be understated is JUST HOW DIFFICULT THIS THING IS TO BUILD!! I am fairly competent at DIY and was sure that I could achieve the build within the ‘eight hours for two people’ stated, how wrong I was…. ROUND 1: Open up the four packages, check all of the parts are present. Check. The panels are all covered in a kind of protective plastic. For the record we didn’t bother to take these off, I hope this won’t come back to haunt us. Assemble the base, already going wrong, the sides to not appear to match up not sure how we are expected to screw the bars together when there are big holes in the joining parts, nothing for screw to bite into? Then the side panels, ok these start OK, and, as others have said, we leave the screws ‘loose’ to allow some flex in the shed, even so a lot of the holes do not align, particularly with the top support struts. Next the door slider, we cannot work this out, we study the instructions, what’s the point? at this point they may have well been written in ancient Greek, it is just not making sense, eventually we work out what goes in what direction and aligns to which part, at this point you make your own fixings into the ‘soft’ aluminium runners, so no idea at this point if our guess is right, we cross fingers and toes…. Now we try to assemble the door frame, after a lot of head scratching and foul language we eventually work out we have them inside the shed (as per the rest of the build so far) but realise they should be on the outside. Now the pièce de résistance, the roof struts!! We bolt the eight pieces together after studiously examining the instructions, we fit them to the razor-sharp end sections. At this point we have possibly lost a few pints of blood due to the lacerations but keep going, the roof section is proudly put into place. It is screwed to the top bars on the sides and back and then through the ‘soft’ aluminium door sliders in the front. Although it is worth noting that some of the angles are nearly impossible and screw holes do not want to align however we do manage to get this done. We hit the six-hour mark, the roof panels are next, the first one up. IT DOES NOT LINE UP WITH ANY HOLES! What is this trickery….?? So, a further close inspection of the instructions goes by, ah, we have a section of parts ‘13’ & ‘14’ the wrong way around, silly us, take it down swap it about but no, IT STILL DOES NOT LINE UP. Turns out it also matters which way the beams are screwed together so that the roof fixing holes align. Something as important as this is NOT in the instructions. We have to disassemble the entire roof section and start again ☹. At this point we are despondent and wish we had paid for it to be installed, or bought a readymade one, this shed is sucking the life, and quite literally, the blood from us! This done we fit the roof panels, they are all different sizes but never mind, they do eventually go on and with twisting and straining we get all of the screws fixed in. The roof capping (I don’t know the correct term) does not screw together in the middle, there are two big holes (like the issue we had with the base) whereas the instructions would suggest one has a bigger hole, the other a small hole for the screw to cut into. We cannot have got this wrong as there are only two pieces and they were identical at both ends. At this point we were desperate and just made our own holes. It was now 8:30 and darkness was descending, both literally and metaphorically, upon us. The doors and trimmings will wait another day… ROUND 2. Full of fresh hope we return to the doors, they are fitted fairly easily although they do not sit well in the frames and you’ll need to apply a liberal helping of grease to the runners to make those doors glide open and shut. Now we fit the floor assembly, instructions are almost as bad as for the main shed, again we have bits that cannot screw together, not sure what a lot of the holes were for and some bits were bent but this looked on purpose so not sure why. The biggest pain in the backside is that it is all too easy to knock it out of place whilst moving about, in the end we used electrical tape to hold it together, at least then we had a fighting chance when putting down the flooring (8’ x 2’ sheets from our local builders merchants). We’ll be screwing this down in Round 3, but that’s not happened yet. TIP: mark on the wall where the floor supports are, we didn’Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 30 Sep, 2018
Poor complicated design, flimsy metal.
The overall quality is belowt average, and the design is over complicated. It is too easy to construct the framework wrong, as the pieces often look identical, but the drillings are in such a way that you put it together according to the instructions diagrams and find holes are way out. The instructions do not make it clear there is a wrong way of putting the frame together and the illustrations are not easy to understand and the process is not in sequence. The piece numbers can be wrong and the open end for the doors is very flimsy as is the apex end plates. I have put several sheds together by myself, but this one really is a two man job. One to wear gloves to protect against the sharp metal edges and drill holes, and one to screw the fixings. Note that the shed is much lower than most and there is little headroom, and I am only 5" 8". I would not buy another westwood, go for the yarmaster or ketter.Verified purchase: Yes
- 21 Dec, 2017
Never built in 2-3 hours
Found the build difficult, many of the holes were not inline and had to be re-drilled. Structure was very flimsy and trying to build anything absolute still day without even slightest breeze caused the structure to sway for no reason. This caused twisting of whole structure and none alignment of holes, due to flimsy structure. Found the diagrams very misleading and not very clear. Took a couple of building and taking apart before could recognise which way parts went. Especially with the doorway frame. Doors would not slide easily and this caused flexing of doors. The biggest joke was statement could be built in 2 to 3 hours. Both my friend and I have been in engineering for over 40years, so we should not have had problems in assembly. Would certainly not recommend.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 23 Aug, 2019
Disappointing
We brought this shed as it stated it was a tall one, but if you are over 4’ 6” inches tall you can not stand up without hitting your head and having to stoop to go through the door. We had to re-drill a lot of holes as they didn’t line up, even tried changing the panels around didn’t make any difference it was certainly not well made. Would I buy this again NO as led to believe that it was an easy structure to put up as well as a tall item which it is not.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 15 Jan, 2020
Not great.
Shed is so short that my head touches the ceiling in the middle making it impossible to work in for extended times. Putting it up was also a nightmare as the instructions are unclear and the predrilled holes are often in the wrong place.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 16 Aug, 2016
good value for money.
took me about 12 hours to put up on my own. take your time getting the base flat and square and the rest is strait forward. be careful with the 4 panels marked P2 , two of them dont have center holes in them and go next to the doors ,not mentioned in instructions. I also had to buy extra self tappers (about £1.50 from screwfix). I found that 6 packs of loft flooring fitted exactly without any trimming. The finished item looked good.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 21 Nov, 2019
Good overall
A well designed shed did take two of us to put together but has to sit on a level surface just the doors are not very secure if your looking to put expensive tools in there it’s not the oneVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 10 Jun, 2020
Metal shed? Would I buy another?
Quite flimsy and difficult to erect. Would use wood in future.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 14 Oct, 2016
AVOID AVOID AVOID
Avoid like the plague. The metal is no thicker than a baked beans can, the plastics are worse quality that what Tic Tacs come in, the instructions might as well be in Chinese and NOTHING lines up. I am a very skilled DIY guy and no matter how well you put this together you will be disappointed.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
