4 cheap sheds from trusted UK retailers
Our cheap 10x8 sheds are the biggest garden storage you can buy here for under £550: Yardmaster galvanised steel sheds from around £380, with room for a mower, bikes, garden furniture and a proper workbench. Each 10ft x 8ft shed has lockable sliding double doors, a 15 year anti-rust guarantee and nothing to paint or treat, ever. Every one is sold by Shedstore. Need less room? See our cheap 8x6 sheds, or go bigger with cheap large sheds.
At ten feet by eight, a garden shed turns into a room. The steel ones here measure 2.85m x 2.26m at the base, about 6.4 square metres of floor, roughly half as much again as an 8x6 and three times a 6x4. In practice that fits:
It won't take a ride-on mower with all of that, and the metal ones are too low to stand at a bench at the sides all day. For a true workshop, look at our cheap large sheds; for just tools and a mower, an 8x6 saves around £100 and frees up lawn.
Here's how the 10 x 8 sheds on this page line up, from Shedstore's own specs. All are hot-dipped galvanised steel with an anti-rust guarantee and a padlockable door. Base size is the footprint without the roof overhang (3.03m x 2.37m with it). Prices move daily, so check the cards above for today's figure.
| Shed | Finish | Base size | Eaves / ridge | Door opening | Floor | Guarantee | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yardmaster Castleton apex | Anthracite grey steel | 2.85m x 2.26m | 1.63m / 2.02m | Sliding double, 1.20m wide x 1.57m high | None | 15 years anti-rust | £370 to £390 |
| Yardmaster green apex | Emerald green steel | 2.85m x 2.26m | 1.63m / 2.02m | Sliding double, 1.20m x 1.57m | None | 15 years anti-rust | £380 to £400 |
| Yardmaster Balmoral apex | Brown wood-effect steel | 2.85m x 2.26m | 1.82m / 2.24m | Sliding double, 1.25m x 1.78m | None | 15 years anti-rust | £440 to £460 |
| Yardmaster shiplap-effect apex | Taupe/brown steel, 2 clear roof panels | 2.85m x 2.26m | 1.82m / 2.24m | Sliding double, 1.25m x 1.78m | None | 15 years anti-rust | £510 to £530 |
The Castleton and the green apex are the cheapest outright and share the same frame: pick on colour. The Balmoral and the shiplap-effect model cost £60 to £140 more but are about 20cm taller at the ridge and eaves, with a door you can walk through without ducking (1.78m against 1.57m). If you're over about 5ft 6in, that extra height is worth paying for.
Every shed on this page is made by Yardmaster, with a baked-on, seven-layer finish over the zinc. That's why a metal one this size costs about half the price of a wooden one this size: steel panels are cheap to make and ship, and there's no timber treatment to pay for. You never paint it, it can't rot, insects can't get in, and sliding doors don't catch the wind or need clear space in front. The trade-offs: there's no floor (a steel floor support kit is sold separately, without boards), it must be bolted to a solid base with the anchor kit supplied, and the walls are thin for hanging heavy shelves. They suit:
Every size in steel is on our cheap metal sheds page.
Timber at this size costs more. At Shedstore the cheapest are Forest Garden 4Life overlap sheds at around £740 to £800: pressure treated with a 25 year anti-rot guarantee, 7mm overlap walls, a 12mm solid floor included and a 3.01m x 2.61m footprint, with double doors in apex or reverse apex styles, with four windows or windowless. Forest's Beckwood shiplap models start nearer £920, also with a 25 year anti-rot guarantee. Wood gives you a floor, easy fixing for hooks and shelving, and better insulation for a workshop; it also needs a check of the felt roof each year. We've asked for the 4Life sheds to be added to this page, and until then the full range is on our cheap wooden sheds page, with thicker-walled options on our shiplap sheds page.
These are the three ways a wooden shed is clad, and the biggest reason one costs £740 and another £1,500.
The brown shiplap-effect steel shed copies the look of shiplap timber in steel, so you get the style for less, with nothing to treat.
All four sheds here have an apex roof: two slopes meeting in a ridge, so you get the most headroom down the middle of the shed, where you walk. The low eaves (1.63m to 1.82m) are where the shelves go. In timber you can also buy:
More shapes and sizes on our apex sheds and pent sheds pages.
On a shed this size you'll be wheeling things in and out, so the doors matter as much as the floor. All four have sliding double doors opening to 1.20m or 1.25m wide: a mower, a wheelbarrow and a bike with wide handlebars all go straight in. Sliding doors also won't blow shut on you. Forest's wooden ones at this size come with double doors as standard too. For other sizes with wide doors, see our double door sheds.
A big shed holds the expensive stuff, so security counts. The sliding doors have pad-lockable handles with anti-tamper bolts, and the sheds are windowless, so nobody can see what's inside. A padlock isn't supplied: buy a closed-shackle one. Bolting the shed down with the anchor kit stops it being lifted or levered, and for bike storage add a ground anchor inside. Check your home insurance for what it covers in an outbuilding.
None of these sheds comes with a base, so have one ready before delivery day. Build it to the footprint, 2.85m x 2.26m for the steel sheds, not the 3.03m x 2.37m roof overhang, so rain drips off rather than onto it.
Shedstore delivers the sheds flat-packed for self-assembly (delivery options and dates are shown at checkout). Building one takes two people about 4 to 6 hours once the ground is ready:
Yardmaster's website has the instructions and floor kits for its sheds, and Forest Garden's 10x8 range has the assembly guide for each timber model.
Usually not. In England a garden shed is permitted development if it's single storey, isn't in front of the house and, with other outbuildings, covers no more than half the garden. Within 2m of a boundary it can be no more than 2.5m tall (Planning Portal outbuildings rules). The tallest shed here is 2.24m to the ridge, so any of them can go next to your fence. Listed buildings, conservation areas and National Parks have tighter rules; the government's permitted development guidance has the detail. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have similar but separate rules.
A steel shed needs almost no maintenance: hose it down once a year, clear leaves off the roof, and check the bolts are tight after the first winter. Leave a gap behind the shed for air, and put a few pallets or a floor kit down if you'll store anything that hates damp, as condensation can form under a steel roof. A pressure treated wooden shed only needs the felt checking and the walls kept clear of soil and plants; it never needs re-treating.
The Castleton 10ft x 8ft anthracite metal apex shed, at around £380, closely followed by the green apex. The cheapest wooden 10x8 shed at Shedstore is a Forest 4Life overlap apex at around £740.
Nominally 3.05m x 2.44m. The steel sheds here measure 3.03m x 2.37m including the roof overhang and 2.85m x 2.26m at the base; Forest's timber ones are 3.01m x 2.61m.
A lawnmower, two or three bikes, garden tools, folded garden furniture and a workbench with shelves, with space to walk in between.
The ones we list are. Each comes with a 15 year anti-rust guarantee, lockable doors and an anchor kit. Cheap sheds earn a bad name from thin dip treated timber and chipboard floors, not from steel.
Yes. A steel shed has no floor and must be bolted to level concrete or slabs; a wooden one twists and rots without firm, dry ground under it.
Flat-packed in boxes of panels, on the delivery date you choose at Shedstore's checkout. Make sure there's a clear route to the back garden for the long wall and roof sections.
Yes, same footprint. Shops quote it either way round; what changes is whether the door is in the short or long wall.
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