Sheds Texas

Portable Sheds Shed Kits Sheds Built On Site

Lately we have had several questions com via e mail concerning portable buildings as opposed to storage shed kits. To help cut down on the confusion we thought we would try to cover the subject here. We have talked before about what constitutes a shed, as opposed to a building, but have given in to the common terminology, so that is what we will use here.

Portable sheds

Portable sheds can be any kind of movable shed, like portable garden sheds. Of course, if the shed is attached to a concrete foundation, or to poles set in the ground, it does not meet the criteria for “portable”.

Shed kits

Shed kits are portable, at least they are portable while they are kits. Some shed kits are built to be portable after they are assembled, and some are designed to be permanent fixtures in the landscape.

Sheds built on site

Sheds built on site are a lot like kits. If they are built as post frame structures like pole barns, they are not portable in the normal sense of portability. It would take a good deal of work to make them so. The same is true of those shed structures built on a concrete slab.

While we are at it, lets talk about a few other similar terms:

Utility buildings are buildings which can be used for many purposes such as storage, workshops, and a variety of other uses. Storage sheds and storage buildings are terms used interchangeably in most cases.
Small Barns are usually just storage sheds or utility buildings used for barn like purposes like garden sheds, and tool sheds. In other words, they are all really just utility buildings tooled for a variety of purposes.