Login
Start Free Trial Are you a business?? Click Here

Garden Buildings Direct Reviews

1.1 Rating 392 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Garden Buildings Direct
1.1
Based on 392 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 35%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 28%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
Read Garden Buildings Direct Reviews

About Garden Buildings Direct:

Garden Buildings Direct manufacture garden sheds, summerhouses, log cabins, playhouses and other garden related products. We import a large number of products from Eastern Europe and Asia on top of the 120 SKU’s we manufacture in house.
Garden Buildings Direct also operates a home delivery service throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

Visit Website

Phone:

0800 169 6016

Email:

Sales@Kybotech.co.uk

Location:

Parry Business Park, Sutton-On-Trent, Newark, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Nottinghamshire
NG23 6QX

Write Your review

Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 6th December 2024
Laura Barker
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 6th December 2024
Laura Barker
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd November 2024
Allison
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd November 2024
Allison
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
Stuart Cavey
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
Stuart Cavey
Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
Stuart Cavey
104
Anonymous
Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Absolutely shocking company. I ordered a shed and it was delivered to wrong address. They sent photos of the house it was delivered to .I sent photos of my house .and they said I had to call the police and get a crime reference number. For them to to to take it further. Eventually after all most 2 weeks and many hours on the phone I got one delivered today ...never again ...wish I had done my research..
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
I wish I had done my research before purchasing from this company. I had similar issues as everyone else has had on here. Extremely poor quality, poor finishing, poor workmanship, incorrect instructions, unassembled T&G roof when advertised as assembled. Was provided with V3 instructions when the latest is V7. Lesson learned but not sure my 5 year old daughter will see it that way as this was her birthday present, how bad do I feel!!!
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
DO NOT BUY FROM THEM! nothing they advertise is true, i went for the thickest log option they had, most expensive i should add, it was delivered and at the time driver reported faulty felt. they said they would replace it but after i got rid of the damaged part they asked for pictures! With regards to the shed itself, nothing fits properly. Wood was most likely stored i damp condition, as everything is warped, i had to hire builders to come in and fix it all as these guys were not interested. Keep emailing me same messages - most likely automated, saying how sorry they are to hear about the issues, but they never action anything. I told them in the end i would like to return it all and get my money back, thy said someone from cancellations team will call - and they did leave me a voicemail after 8pm - i called straight back and guess what - they don't take calls at that time as the office is shut! i told them i will take partial refund after and they are not interested - only wanted to recover the extra £400 i spend on fixing that cabin. They said as per their T&C they don't do that and if i want to return it they will collect it but i have to take it down myself and then they will charge me another £400 for collection!!!! this company is an absolute joke, there is no customer service, their sales guys will read you scripts saying "its like lego, quality is great and it all fits" this couldn't be further from truth. DO NOT USE THEM, THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER COMPANIES WHICH ARE BETTER QUALITY AND CHEAPER!
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Same company as BillyOh, Kybotech Limited & Gardenbuildings direct - NOT GOOD EXPERIENCE, should have trusted reading all the reviews they are a complete waste of time. Ordered a 10x9 metal shed on Sunday 17th March. Arrived as promised on Friday 22nd, on order BS99068. Centre cap section that runs along the top of the roof missing, all recorded as requested and replacement requested. Promised delivery 29th - told 29th not arriving. Promised delivery 5th - told 5th not arriving. Promised delivery 10th - guess wot just told not arriving and no new date yet. Will it ever get here - Probably not. The UK call site is extremely rude - pleasure to initially purchase then basically no words, just instantly transferred to overseas call centre - ignorant and not interested in helping. Overseas centre are pleasant, but absolutely no help - can only spout pre-agreed excuses and generate a new promised delivery date that 4 times later is just a waste of a promise and an email. I'm now going to local DIY store to buy couple of 2m aluminium ridge plates for £35 and fit myself. Please, please avoid this company - nothing but pathetic excuses and no real effort to resolve issues - they only want your money and make it very hard to initially refund and just try and time waste to over the 28 day rules - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED - they are no good.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
I wish I had read the reviews on here before buying from them. Our experience is similar to most people's. The product description is completely untrue. We purchased a BillyOh Pent shed. Poor quality does not sum it up, it is so terrible, and I am so upset that they will not sort this out. We have to pay to return the item, despite the fact they have totally misrepresented the product online. I stupidly trusted the reviews on their website, but in hindsight it is clear that the reviews relate to other products. It does not fit together, it will clearly leak water, there are no steel beams as per their description, and so on. Absolute joke of a company - I was told on the telephone that their Finance Department would call me to discuss collection without paying as the product description was so misleading, but we had no call and so back to communicating by email with their standard line of... we will refund if you pay for collection.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Poorest quality item I've ever had to fit!! really not fit for purpose. I fitted one of their summerhouses at the weekend for a friend, it was an embarrassment, just cant believe how they can get away with selling such a pile of junk! cant see it lasting more than a couple of years and we are having to spend more to strengthen it. P.S. I'm a joiner and I would never fit one of their products again, after reviewing their prices I think I could have competed using quality materials. Poor design, poor timber and extremely flimsy, sorry to go on but I felt bad for the customer.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Nightmare of a company. Firstly although id already paid 3 grand for a log cabin they wouldn't send as delivery address was different to billing, 2 weeks later the shed arrives and after starting install 2 side base beams missing and a high percentage of badly warped beams. Foreign call centre worse than a chocolate fire guard. After 6 calls and many hours im still trying to get the missing parts. Despite many promises no parts and none of the promised emails arrive! Buy from this company at your peril as you have been warned.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
put the sides of the shed up when it came to fitting the roof the roof was not square the roof trusses would not support the roof so had to make a strong perlin out of 3x2 wood at my expense the double doors are twisted and very flimsy to say the least framing very thin I used to erect sheds my self but this one is very mind numbing as nothing matches up I would not buy from this company again.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
I bought two buildings 10by 6 and 14 by 8 when delivered the driver made 3 different stacks of loose wood . On the understanding I was told they would be in packs, not the case so I had over 300 bits of wood to measure which I wasn’t prepared to do after paying over 1800 pounds. So after many telephone calls I decided to cancel my order as it wasn’t as they said . So now they want to charge me 248.00 pounds for collection when it was there fault . If I was you I wouldn’t use this company ever
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Such an awful company. Never had such a poor buying experience in all my life! Would 'Anonymous' who wrote below that they had successfully won a Small Claims Court case against Kybotech be prepared to share info' as to which County Court this was in and the date and/ or case number? This may help many more of us who have contributed reviews via this invaluable website.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Just had a cold call even before an order was placed. Desperate signs and breach of data use
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Was discussing via email a summer house at £659. Enquiring about floor options etc. Then when I had gone to order they jacked the price up to £869 for the exact same thing and wouldn't honour the price. Terrible customer service.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Damp, mouldy playhouse (on stilts!) within 9 months - USELESS! Bought a Billy-Oh stilted playhouse 9 months ago when we moved house. Fine during the summer months, but when the children went into it last month (February 2019), the roof was covered in mould, it was up the middle strut on back wall and the floor was absolutely saturated. Complained to GBD and they said this is just one of those things that happens and to wipe it down with a soapy cloth! What? How will a soapy cloth deal with a saturated floor? They then said we could have upgraded the floor and roof but we chose not to. No, we didn't because it clearly states that the products are 'pressure treated' to supposedly prevent these things happening. They don't! We've tried really hard to get this resolved as I think £500 for a playhouse is not a cheap product. They now tell us that it's out fault as we should have wood treated it as soon as we got it. They said the treatment they use lasts 4-6 weeks. Nowhere on their website or in our documentation is ANY of this mentioned. They are simply liars who refuse to deal with customers once they have your money! I would suggest people go elsewhere and not think you're getting something good for your money from these people unless you're prepared to pay on top to 'upgrade' everything they offer you and use your imagination on how to 'treat' your playhouse. Next they'll be telling me it isn't designed for children!!!
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Update on County Court. Items unfit for purpose. Kybotech (Garden buildings direct) Lost. full refund plus costs. Don't take their rotten service on the chin. Go to the small claims web site
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
UPDATE#2 (05/03/2019): (UPDATE ON POOR QUALITY WOOD) After 90 hours of painting the wood (1 coat), 3 of us spent the weekend (approx. 20hours total) starting to assemble the building. We experienced long delays to the build as a result of badly twisted and warped logs (Note: we already had approx 20 of the most severely twisted logs replaced). More than 50% of the longer logs will not fit together due to the twists/warps. In order to assemble the building we had make a 4ft long wooden "spanner" to twist the logs straight, before lots of hard hitting with a mallet to get them into place. Still need to felt the roof, fit the flooring, doors & windows, and all the fascia boards. UPDATE#1: THE REPLY FROM KYBOTECH BELOW IS INCORRECT. BEWARE OF BUYING FROM THIS COMPANY - READ ALL OF THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS FIRST! -- Also operating under the name of "Garden Buildings Direct". I ordered a BillyOh Kent Garden office. The sales team informed me that 2 people could build this in a weekend (this is a lie – see below). A team of 3 of us spent 3x 10hour days (total 90 person hours) paining the individual parts of the building with wood protection (before the building was assembled). During this process we discovered many of the parts were severely warped and twisted or cracked. The quality of the wood is very poor (rough-cut pallet wood is used for the window and door frames). After several emails to GardenBuildingsDirect, they agreed to send replacement parts. These replacement parts arrived, but several of these parts were also severely warped. We spend the whole of the next weekend counting the parts and found that more parts are missing. GardenBuildingsDirect are not willing to accept their poor quality control and send the replacement parts - They are insisting that photos must be provided. We have wasted 2 weeks now in lost time waiting for replacement parts to be provided and met with resistance from GardenBuildingsDirect. The building comes with over 2,500 screws and nails!! They say that the whole building can be assembled in 2 days including the 2,500 screws and nails and hanging doors and windows. I’m expecting it will take at least 7 more days with 2 people to assemble this building (on top of the 90 hours for the first coat of wood protection) and feel that I have been lied to by GBD when told that this can be done in 1 weekend. Beware of the lies about assembly time and the very poor quality of wood and parts!!
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
I've had a terrible experience with this company. Firstly, not all of the product was delivered and they have already admitted fault. Secondly, one of the door windows was broken. Thirdly, the product was delivered untreated and finally, I'm left very disappointed with the quality of building material, the wood is split in many places. Like many I wish I had researched more before purchase. I'm currently in dispute with them.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
Wish I had read reviews before I purchased summer house with side store,all the bad ones are correct ! Warped ,inferior wood, very difficult to erect, save up a bit longer and buy a decent one,I’ll put this down to one of life’s expierience (£950) worth,I will not buy online again ( if I had seen it first I would have walked away) luckily I am able to fix most of the faults but can’t do a thing about the quality,this is an excuse for a summer house and maybe will last a couple of years , buyer beware !!! it will last
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
do not buy from these people our summer house has the worst wood ever its like pallet or orange box wood it is leaking so has black sheeting over the doors windows will have to build another front onto it to stop it getting water logged every time it rains or it just needs pulling down total waste of £1000.
Helpful Report
Posted 5 years ago
You should have an option to score this company 0 or even a minus score. These are rogue traders and should be put out of business as soon as possible. I will add my bad experience to all the other 1 star reviews but if you get a chance, do not buy anything from them as they are hell to deal with and just treat you with contempt. The shed we ordered took a week to erect for 2 trained men. The quality of the joinery is pitiful with joints not lining up and fixings missing the frame altogether. The doors came with no diagonal frame stiffeners fixed, yet in the instructions, they are shown constructed, The frame thickness is too thin along with the floor bearers. They are warped and much of the wood is of very poor quality with splits and decayed bits simply dipped in preservative (which cost extra). This shed leaks like a sieve and will have to be scrapped and I'm taking the company to the small claims court as soon as I can. The problem is that I don't just want financial compensation. I want this company to either clean up its act by a huge margin or cease trading.
Helpful Report
Posted 6 years ago
this company is due in the county court on Friday, I'd suggest using the small claims online service if you feel the quality is not fit for purpose. Update on the outcome next week.
Helpful Report
Posted 6 years ago
Garden Buildings Direct is rated 1.1 based on 392 reviews