Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

If making a 10ft wide shed, plan on adding collar ties to the trusses, the metal gussets just don't seem to be strong enough to hold the trusses solidly. Also I found the slots in the gussets for inserting 2x4s needed to be bent open a bit to get the wood in. The side wall design for the 10ft wide shed is not great. There is no double header on the side wall to securely tie the side walls to the front and back walls, so the side wall studs tended to lean out under the weight of the trusses. I added a support in the middle of the side walls to hold them in. Plan on toe-nailing the studs, the metal pieces provided to hold the studs upright were not strong enough when the weight of the gussets for a 10ft wide shed is added. The tops of the side wall are at an angle so the seem to direct the weight of the trusses outward rather than downward more than a traditional side wall double top would. If you are making the 8ft wide shed, perhaps these metal pieces are strong enough to do the job. With most plans on-line for 10ft wide sheds, and other shed kits specified as 10ft wide, the 10ft width is of the base and framing, not including the sheathing on the side walls - but this kit's plans assume 1/2" sheathing so the base you build is really 9ft 10 inches wide. The instructions in the cut list for the 10ft wide shed did not seem to specify the length of part NN, a part for the front door jamb assembled near the end, however, from the step of building this jamb it can be seen that NN is 97" long. I am not an expert, but I have built one previous gambrel-roof shed from scratch before. The roof trusses are a critical component. I hoped the kit would speed up the building of a 10ft wide shed by expediting truss assembly, however, due to the factors above, the kit actually slowed down the process, since I had to add members for structural integrity.