When you go to most home improvement stores, you’ll find sheds for sale. They may be on a lot or ordered at the store, but still, many have some type of outdoor storage for sale. But it’s a safe bet that the structures offered by most stores aren’t like those[Read More…]
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Shed Trade Show Visionaries
The trade show is a cornerstone for doing business in almost any market, and the shed-building industry is no exception. Builders, dealers, and suppliers and vendors have found trade shows vital for meeting face-to-face and making deals that impact future shed-building and sales efforts. It takes vision and effort to[Read More…]
Sturdy Flooring
As a shed builder, you know how important it is to ensure each part of a structure is built with precision and quality. But have you considered how vital it is for a shed floor to be built properly and sturdily? If the floor isn’t built right, the quality of[Read More…]
Training the Trainers
As much as we’d all like to keep a successful shed-building team together forever, it’s just not possible. One builder might be ready to retire. Another may find a new job. Or, most desirable, your business grows and you need to hire new builders. That means you have to train[Read More…]
Sheds in a 3D World
Russ Whitney was never involved in 3D technology before he founded a company in 2012 specializing in just that, but the world of 3D design has always fascinated him. So, after a lengthy career in the computer software industry, he decided to fill what he saw as a niche in[Read More…]
Shed Financing Consolidation
According to Investopedia.com, companies consolidate with other businesses for several reasons. Among them are to stimulate growth, gain an edge on their competition, increase market share, or impact supply chains. It’s no different when a player in the shed-building industry consolidates with a competitor. And, according to Phil Falls, CEO[Read More…]
The Shed Mover
About 10 years ago, Terry Scheetz was endeavoring to create a scrap metal reclaiming business in Nevada. As part of the business, he built a trailer. “In Nevada, we get a lot of illegal dumping, and scraping shot-out cars was legal,” he says. “Then the law changed and so did that[Read More…]
Countdown to The Big Shed Show
It’s less than two months to the shed-building industry’s premier trade show—The Big Shed Show. This year, the show heads to the Cincinnati area and the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky, October 3. The one-day event, co-hosted by Capital Forest Products in Annapolis, Maryland, and Union Grove Lumber in[Read More…]
Increasing Capacity
When Mike Doherty first investigated frame building equipment, he knew that this type of equipment could improve operations for his Maine-based company, Shed Happens. That was almost 10 years ago, and this past winter he took a huge step and capital expenditure by adding a Diamond Quad framing table (Triad),[Read More…]
The Backyard Greenhouse
Raymond Anderson retired from the military with disabilities and in October 2018 started Big Red Shed in Hayesville, North Carolina. Anderson doesn’t manufacture sheds; he’s a retailer for others like Old Hickory, Eagle Carports, and Clarks Woodwork. As we’ve seen in the business of superstores (think WalMart, Target, and even[Read More…]
