Esh’s Utility Buildings of Kentucky and Tennessee is looking forward to an outstanding year in 2017 in its storage building production, the company reports. Where it sold three buildings before, it wants to sell four. Where it was decently efficient in the past, it wants to improve efficiency. And where[Read More…]
Matt Poe
Matt Poe is the Editor of Shed Business Journal, previously of Shed Builder Magazine.
Father-and-Son Team Start DIY Shed Website
Shed-building father-son duo Guy and Cody Burdett of Salt Lake City have launched DIY-Plans.com, the pair report. They say they have created a niche market for do-it-yourself shed building, riding the wave of popularity with DIY projects. With their decades of expertise, the Burdetts say building a shed has become[Read More…]
Tyler, Texas-Based Atlas Backyard Sheds Celebrates 35 Years in Business
For 35 years now, three generations of the Downs family of Atlas Backyard Sheds in Tyler, Texas, have been transforming backyard spaces into living spaces with the construction of sheds, garages, decks, fences, patio covers, hot tubs, pools, and other small, custom-built-buildings, according to the company. To celebrate its 35th[Read More…]
Grandview, Texas, Shed Builder Helps Habitat for Humanity
Leland’s Barns, located in Grandview, Texas, is founded on the principles of honoring God as leader in all they do, creating opportunities for individuals to make a difference, and creating a culture of excellence to serve the community with a level of service that is second to none. So, it[Read More…]
Utah Shed Builder Opens New Location
Wright’s Shed Co. recently opened and new, larger location in Kaysville, Utah, the company reports “We needed more space to make builds easier and faster so we can get them to the customers in better time,” says owner Dan Wright. “This new building will give us more space to[Read More…]
Moving and Growing
The International Shed Manufacturers Expo (ISM) took place September 14 and 15 at the Williamson County AgExpo Park in Franklin, Tennessee. Major sponsors of the fourth ISM Expo were Capital Forest Products, A&L Paint, Cardinal Industries, and Pine Hill Trailer Sales. “This was the first time we have moved the[Read More…]
Q & A: The Customer Is Always Right
Not every part of the country is the same. Whether it’s the land, the people, the economy, each region of the United States has its own certain needs and wants. That’s true when it comes to sheds as well. Outback Wood Products of San Diego started in 2001,[Read More…]
Consistent Quality
Shed builders look for consistent quality lumber, and Paul McGrath knows it. That’s why his company, McGrath Lumber Co. Inc. in Greenfield, New Hampshire, strives to ensure that every truckload of 2-by-4s that leaves the shop is good, quality material. “We developed a niche, a recipe, and a brand name[Read More…]
Q & A: Student Solutions
Hillyard Technical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri, seeks to provide training for the workforce of tomorrow. In the center’s carpentry department, that includes building sheds to teach and practice construction concepts. Shed Builder Magazine had a chance to talk with George Hoeffner about the tech center and the shed building projects.[Read More…]
Software Tools!
When Lenny Stahl started off at Dakota Storage Buildings LLC in Milbank, South Dakota, he says inventory and manufacturing control was backwards. “When I came into this company, it was on QuickBooks and pen and paper. It was just…I couldn’t handle it,” he says. “I couldn’t function with that. Oops,[Read More…]
