Back in 2000, Pine Hill Trailers was a home-based business run by founder Dan Petersheim and one employee who helped build the earliest products, a skid-steer trailer and dump trailer. But after a local shed hauler asked Petersheim to do some service work on his trailers, a new direction into[Read More…]
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It’s All About Location
Many shed builders offer both stock buildings and onsite custom builds in order to meet the needs of all potential customers—those customers cruising by your lot looking for an instant purchase, as well as those with specific needs and site constraints. However similar the end result might be, there certainly[Read More…]
Navigating Shed Transportation Hurdles
Building a topnotch shed is one thing—getting it to the project site is another challenge altogether. And what about those shed builders who do such a fantastic job with the end product that the homeowners want to take it with them when they move? For these on-the-go professionals, it takes[Read More…]
Reliable and Trustworthy
When Barton Choate began moving portable buildings a decade ago, he was one of only a handful of people in the region around Abbeville, Louisiana, who recognized the potential to make a living serving this niche. Today the owner/operator of Barts Portable Building Movers LLC works hard to support a[Read More…]
True Green
There are lots of ways in which shed builders can claim their products promote green properties: the use of local labor and locally sourced materials; stains and paints that are free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), those solvents that are released into the air as coatings dry; and reduced waste[Read More…]
Calculated Risk and Hard Work
They may not have realized it at the time, but in 1983 when Sanford and Barb Lapp moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Himrod, New York, to found a shed building business, they were setting a vision for the company that would last more than 30 years. Son Kent Lapp,[Read More…]
A Brief History of Sheds
How times have changed for homeowners and shed builders. A shed in Salem, Massachusetts from Historic Sheds The fact of the matter is, since the nomads first settled into villages, people have accumulated stuff and, as a result, have needed a place to put that stuff. Thus was born the[Read More…]
A Style Evolution
For the HGTV-watching, Pinterest-pinning, Houzz-obsessed consumer, there’s no longer any reason the backyard shed shouldn’t be a part of the overall landscaping statement—at least that’s what an increasing number of homeowners seem to expect. Today’s sheds are being designed to add new value to homes through a style that matches[Read More…]
What’s a Building Without a Truss or Rafter? Often, A Shed
During his twenty-plus year career as an engineer for Tuff Shed, Owen Bunker, currently president of Innovations Manufacturing in Denver, found that engineering load values and other factors for shed roof rafters and trusses was particularly challenging because, technically, shed roofing systems use neither rafter nor truss. As Bunker points[Read More…]
Is It Time to Update Your Roof System?
For many shed builders, rafters are the unquestionable way to go for a roofing system. They’re the simple solution for the quick stick-framed construction favored by many builders. And the traditional wood gussets that hold these rafters together often are a good way for shed builders to use up their[Read More…]
