Urban Sheds
Urban ShedsOutfit your shed
Power, shelves, hooks and light, installed while he is there.
Pick what you want and add it to your list. You buy it online, and your builder installs it onsite while he builds the shed.
- You buy onlinefrom Amazon, delivered to the house before build day.
- Your builder installs onsitehe will add the install charge as its own line item on the estimate.
Solar electrical packages
Light and charging with no trench and no electrician. The panel goes on the roof or the sunny wall, the battery and the lights inside.
Your builder mounts the panel on the roof or the sunny wall and runs the wire through the wall before the siding closes it in. Say which kit at the site visit.
Lights and a place to charge
The small kit: a panel about the size of a sheet of paper, one or two LED lights on a switch or a remote, and a USB port for a phone. Enough to find the mower after dark.
Good for: Any storage shed.
Lights, a radio and tool batteries
A portable power station charged by a panel of about 100 watts. Runs LED lights all evening, charges drill batteries and a phone, and can come out of the shed for a camping trip.
Good for: Storage or workshop.
Outlets for the bench
A kit of two to four panels (about 400 watts), a charge controller, a battery and an inverter, so a wall outlet in the shed runs a battery charger, a fan or a small tool. A saw that runs all afternoon wants a permanent line from the house, and that line is an electrician’s job, separate from the shed.
Good for: Workshops.
Shelving on the wall
Screwed straight into the studs, so it holds what a garage shelf holds and keeps the floor open for the mower and the bikes.
Your builder screws the brackets into the studs before the wall is covered, at the height you want. Tell him what goes on each shelf so he spaces them right.
Heavy-duty shelf brackets and boards
Steel brackets into the studs, a 2x10 or a plywood shelf across them. The simplest shelf there is and the strongest for its cost: paint cans, bins, the things you lift with two hands.
Good for: Any shed.
Wall-mounted wire shelving
A wire shelf on wall brackets, 48 inches wide, that lets light through and does not collect dust. Two or three up one wall hold the bins and the seasonal boxes.
Good for: Storage sheds.
Adjustable track shelving
Vertical standards screwed to the studs, with brackets that hook in at any height. Move a shelf up when the boxes get taller, or add a shelf later without a new hole.
Good for: Any shed; the workshop favorite.
Pegboard with hooks
Every hand tool in sight, above the bench or beside the door. The studs give the hooks their gap, so the board screws straight to the framing.
Your builder screws the panels to the studs where you want them, above the bench or beside the door. Hang the hooks yourself once the shed is done.
Pegboard panels
Quarter-inch board, 24 by 48 inches a panel, in hardboard or steel. Two panels cover the wall above an 8-foot bench; four cover a short wall of a storage shed.
Good for: Any shed.
Hook assortments
A box of hooks in the shapes that hold real tools: straight hooks for hammers and pliers, curved hooks for cords and the extension cord, loops for the level. Get more than you think.
Good for: Goes with the panels.
Bins and baskets for the board
Small bins that hang on the pegboard for screws, bits and the things with no hook shape. A basket at the bottom takes gloves and the tape measure.
Good for: Goes with the panels.
Freestanding shelving
For the heavy things a wall shelf should not hold. Measure the wall first; the drawing in your plan shows what fits.
No install to speak of. Your builder can assemble it and set it against the wall while he is there, and anchor it to a stud so it never tips.
Steel shelving, 5 shelves
Boltless steel with particleboard or wire shelves, 72 inches tall. The 36-inch-wide rack fits the end wall of a 6x8; the 48-inch rack suits the 8x10 and up; the 72-inch rack fills a workshop wall.
Good for: Any shed; check the drawing in your plan.
Wire shelving on wheels
Chrome or black wire, five shelves, casters on the bottom so the rack rolls out when you need what is behind it. Adjustable shelves; lighter duty than boltless steel.
Good for: Storage sheds.
Resin shelving for damp corners
Plastic shelves that never rust and wipe clean, for the fertilizer, the pool chemicals and anything that drips. Lighter loads than steel.
Good for: Storage sheds, garden gear.
Exterior lighting
A light over the door makes the shed usable after work in winter, and finishes the look. Solar needs no wire at all.
Your builder mounts the fixture over the door, centered and level, and blocks behind it in the wall if it is heavy. A wired fixture is connected to the solar kit or left ready for an electrician.
Solar motion light over the door
A small solar floodlight with a motion sensor, mounted above the door. Comes on as you walk up with your arms full, off again a minute later. No wire, no switch.
Good for: Any shed.
Solar wall lanterns
A pair of lantern-style solar sconces, one each side of the door, that glow at dusk and fade by morning. Softer than a floodlight; the look of a porch.
Good for: Traditional rooflines especially.
Gooseneck barn light
The classic: a shade on a curved arm, over the door, in black or galvanized. Wired, so it runs off the solar kit’s inverter or a line from the house; ask your builder to mount it and leave the wire ready.
Good for: Any shed; the workshop finish.
Path lights to the door
Solar stakes along the walk from the house to the shed, so the last thirty steps in the dark are lit. Push them into the ground; nothing to install.
Good for: Any shed.
Your list, for your builder.
Add anything above to your list and it shows here, and on My page.
The links on this page go to Amazon; the order, the price and the return are between you and Amazon. Every product is a suggestion, not a spec; your builder is happy to look at what you have picked. Prices are on Amazon, not here, because they change.
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