Keter Darwin 4 x 6 Plastic Garden Shed

Keter Darwin 4x6 Shed is a Waste of Money – The first thing I noticed when I opened the box is that there were no assembly instructions. I looked on the Keter website and couldn`t find instructions to download. I emailed Keter to complain and about a week later I got a 2 line response saying sorry for the inconvenience. That`s it. No emailed instruction file and no link to the… Read more

instructions on their website. Good thing I managed to find the instructions on my own. I also noticed there was a part missing - a connector piece between the two back panels. Whatever quality control procedures Keter has in place are NOT working. I found the instructions difficult to interpret in places as they only use pictures and no explanatory text. One of the metal pieces on the door frame was a little bit short with the result that one of the corner screws wouldn`t go in because the two holes for the screw didn`t align - poor workmanship. The roof is held down by 2 screws. On one side of the roof, the screw went in fine and held well. On the other side, the screw did not catch on anything. I finally had to put the screw in at a very sharp angle for it to finally catch on something and the result of this is that the screw head doesn`t sit flat. The shed is not insect proof - you can see daylight through the floor joints and some of the wall joints, the bottom of the doors, and the two vents. I used roof and gutter seal to glue insect screens over the vents. I also used roof and gutter seal (2 long tubes) to seal all the gaps that I thought insects would come through. For the door, I wedged rolled up pieces of insect screen into the gap at the bottom of the doors. If you don`t seal the gaps, then not only insects will come in, but also water. In a flood, water would definitely come up through the floor and the bottom of the doors. The shed has no insulation value at all and gets very hot when the sun hits it. Keter suggests a few bolts through the floor and into your cement pad will be enough to keep the shed from blowing over in the wind. I doubt this. So, you need to position the shed in full shade and with full wind protection or devise a strong anchoring system. I will be building sandbag walls around my shed for insulation and wind protection. And finally, Keter says the shed is lockable which is a big joke because anyone with a box cutter can easily slice through the thin plastic panels that make up the doors and the walls. DO NOT buy Keter sheds. They are really poorly designed and manufactured. I wouldn`t buy anything from Keter. And shame on Bunnings for selling such poor quality merchandise.