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Shed Construction, Theft, and Wind!

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We bought a shed kit on Amazon (the only one that would ship to Hawaiʻi) and though a bit, uh, short it was fine. We planned to rIse the roof a little, a slight mod. But, life. When I went to fetch the wall panels, they were gone, stolen. And the roof panels. Probably they are making a nice roof for a hunting dog kennel somewhere. The company was semi helpful, offered to ship new panels for $200 something, plus $500 shipping. Gee thanks. The solutwas to get ondura panels for the wall and polycarbonate for the roof, which worked and cost about $250. Ondura is okay, but it isn't corrugated metal. It's corrugated recycled tires masked into a panel, not strong but weather resistant. They were inexpensive ($22 for a 33"x 79") and weathered one good windstorm and rain so far. We anchored it with the same screw in ground posts used gir the solar array base. About that windstorm.  It also shredded our hybrid screen/greenhouses a...