What size shed do you need?

Size a shed for the hardest thing you need to fit, not for the pile of small stuff. Small stuff stacks on shelves. A quad doesn't.

We build barn-style sheds in nine footprints, from 6 × 8 to 10 × 16. Measure for the right one before you look at prices, then check the price list anyway, because a couple of sizes give you a lot more room for the money than the ones next to them.

Measure the biggest thing first

Get a tape on your largest item and write down its width and length. These rough sizes are a starting point, but models vary, so measure your own:

• A utility quad is roughly 4 feet wide and 6½ to 7 feet long.
• A lawn tractor is about 4 to 5 feet wide with the deck on, and around 6 feet long.
• A trail snowmobile runs about 10 feet long. Mountain sleds are longer.

The doors matter as much as the floor. Before you settle on a size, ask us for the door opening on it and which wall the doors sit on. A big floor does you no good if the quad won't go through the doors. Every shed comes with wood barn doors, and a steel roll-up door is a $350 option.

Leave room to walk

A shed packed wall to wall turns into storage you climb over. Leave a walkway at least 2 feet wide down one side so you can reach the back without moving everything in front of it.

Width is where this bites. A 4-foot-wide quad in a 6-foot-wide shed leaves a foot on each side, which is a squeeze. In an 8-foot shed you can walk past it.

Then look up. Our walls come anywhere from 4 feet to 7 feet 6 inches tall, and the steep lower slope of a barn roof keeps more headroom out toward the walls than a regular peaked roof does. Shelves along the long walls put that height to use.

All nine sizes

Starting prices for the barn style as of October 2026, before options and GST. Delivery is free within Edmonton and $2.50 per km, one way, outside it.

Where the price list works in your favour

Prices don't climb evenly with size, and two spots on the list deserve a second look.

The 10 × 16 costs $500 more than the 10 × 12 and gives you 40 more square feet. That's about $41 a square foot against $50, and only the 6 × 8 comes in cheaper per foot. If you're stuck between those two and the yard has room, go bigger.

The 6 × 12 has 8 more square feet than the 8 × 8 and costs $300 less. The 8 × 8 earns its price when you need the width, like the quad above. For bikes and yard tools, take the 6 × 12.

At the small end, going from 6 × 8 to 6 × 10 adds $1,000 for 12 square feet, the steepest step on the list. If a 6 × 8 holds what you've got, keep the money.

A rough guide by what you're storing

If you haven't measured anything yet, these are sensible places to start:

• Garden tools and a wheelbarrow: 6 × 8 or 6 × 10.
• A lawn tractor plus the yard gear: 8 × 10 or 8 × 12.
• A quad or a sled with room for gear around it: 10 × 12 or 10 × 16.
• A workbench you want to use year round: 10 × 12 or bigger, so the bench doesn't eat the parking.

Need something past 10 × 16, or a different shape? We build custom. Tell us the footprint and what it's for, and we'll price it.

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