In traveling around the country, you will find many different types of shed lots. Some will be full store fronts with indoor and outdoor displays of many outdoor products ranging from sheds and other portable buildings to poly furniture and windmills. Others will be a few sheds on display outside[Read More…]
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Beyond Your Basic Website
It’s no secret that the internet has transformed marketing and sales for certain industries like books, clothing, and entertainment. However, many shed builders incorrectly assume that digital is not critical to their business because they still do much of their business over the phone or face-to-face. The reality is 80[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…]
Tuff Shed Opens New California Location
Tuff Shed Inc. opened a new location in Redding, Calif., the company reports. A Grand Opening celebration took place November 10, 2016. The company says the event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Redding Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Tuff Shed raffled off ten $100 Tuff Shed Gift Certificates and offered[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…]
OSHA Focuses on Safety of Small Builders with New Guide on Recommended Practices
Maybe you’ve been building sheds your whole life and know your tools as well as your own hands, but can you say the same for your new employee or the seasonal help you bring on? Creating a safety-specific program can be a challenge for any contractor, but particularly so for[Read More…]
To Pour or Not to Pour?
It’s difficult to build anything without a proper foundation. While most sheds stand just fine on blocks, in some cases regulations or customer needs demand that the foundation be concrete. With blocks or even a gravel pad, the biggest consideration may be ensuring that the foundation is level. But with[Read More…]
How Do You Identify Your Sheds?
For more than 20 years, Blue Ridge Impressions in Port Republic, Virginia, has been selling nameplates for a range of purposes. About five years ago, however, the company began to explore an expanding niche where it saw a need for better identification: sheds and other backyard structures. Like many shed[Read More…]
Why It’s Important to ‘Learn the Lingo’
When I first entered the lumber business in the early ’90s I was a manager trainee at 84 Lumber on the east side of Toledo, Ohio, in a town called Oregon. At the time, it was the epitome of a blue-collar town and in dire need of being put through[Read More…]
The Importance of Setting Goals
German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” Maybe that’s why so few people follow through and act on their goals, let alone set goals. My question to you[Read More…]
