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Garden Buildings Direct Reviews

1.1 Rating 391 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Garden Buildings Direct
1.1
Based on 391 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
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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.

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Phone:

0800 169 6016

Email:

Sales@Kybotech.co.uk

Location:

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

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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
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Ordered shed on 27th June. Its now 29th september. No news, no point logging in as it just says in production-it has stated this since i ordered it. Customer services is a joke. Apparantly they are still awaiting parts - its a wooden shed!!!! Really poor service The shed was delivered no problem. This was the only part that went ok, maybe because they had nothing to do with it. It is poorly made. The nails holding the slats in place were not put in properly so we had to repair ourselves. After waiting 10 weeks for delivery i was not prepared to wait further for replacement parts with the rest of the parts left in the elements. NEVER BUY A SHED FROM HERE
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Posted 4 months ago
Do Not Buy From Garden Buildings Direct Summer house did not arrive so I tried to cancel and asked for a refund - over 20 emails on their website and no reply at all. Called them (clearly abroad) and told only the cancellation team can do the refund who would call ….. guess what they never did ! Called again and they refused to give me the cancellation teams contact details to speed things up (let’s be honest the cancellation team simply does not exist!) They wouldn’t tell me which country they are in … they couldn’t even tell me where they are supposed to be located in the UK .. just kept reading the address in Worksop (poorly and mispronounced). They are still not returning emails or contacting me. I am now going through my credit card company to try to get my money back. I WISH I HAS READ THESE REVIEWS BEFORE BUYING FROM THEM ….. DO NOT BUY FROM THIS FAKE COMPANY… THEY LIE / WITHHOLD FUNDS / WONT CALL YOU BACK OR ANSWER EMAILS / OR TELL YOU WHAT COUNTRY THEY ARE IN “ DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY”
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Posted 5 months ago
Currently taking to court after numerous issues with quality, windows fell down cheap perspex, sent numerous emails inc pics of water pouring in from rain. Panels warped with only an offer to replace parts. Means I need to pay to dismantle it and re build after a few months I don't think so.
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Posted 5 months ago
Absolutely appalling customer service Absolutely appalling customer service. Multiple calls to try and sort a delivery of a shed. Call handler hung twice with no reason or explanation. Each time you call you get a different tale. Complaints service is just as poor bland meaningless responses. Thought I had a solution on 5th September for delivery by 13th or 16th September. Told today this may not be the case. Promised a call back from a manager this never happened. Spent further time on the phone following lack of phone call. When you call and ask to speak with a manager you are told either they won't tell you anything different or no one is available. I have now spoken with a manager and this wasn't terribly helpful either. I have been trying since 19th August to get a delivery date from them - no joy. Product needs to be with me by 16th September. Company needs to sort out their customer care - customer does all the chasing. To date a terrible experience. C Sandy Date of experience: 11 September 2024
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Posted 5 months ago
Either incompetent or a scam, bought a shed 5 weeks later requested an update on delivery (there policy says delivery in 1 month) no reply, 2 weeks later sent another message, no reply. Only managed to get a response from them after sent a email threatening to cancel order only to get generic sorry for your inconvenience your product is in production. Requested a cancellation and a refund after another 2 weeks and 1 month later I finally have a refund, but only after going through paypal arbitration. If you have a masochistic desire too send an endless stream of emails and get nothing but infuriating responses back then this is the company for you Everyone else AVOID!!
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Posted 5 months ago
I ordered three mini greenhouses and had parts missing. I tried ringing them twice but they don't answer the phone. I tried emailing them but they ignored it so now one of the greenhouses is useless. Don't order from they, they obviously don't give a damn about their customers.
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Posted 5 months ago
Terrible company wish I had seen these reviews before ordering. Delivery wasn’t on the day stated the delivery window is 6am-9pm so wasted a whole day. Then they said it would be delivered between two days, I moaned and they said it would be delivered that day and I would be notified a hour beforehand. Went out and the driver arrived, no notification, luckily my partner was working from home so made him wait. The corner summerhouse like others have said is not quality at all, the door was broken, one bit of wood broken and they just glued it together. When nailing window blocks in the supports break off so have to be reinforced. The roof was too small so had to buy more wood to make it bigger as well as reinforcing the floor. The roof is now bowing as you’re given the flimsiest bit of wood as support. I’ve emailed customer service about 4 times now and just been ignored. Customer service is terrible and pretty much non-existent. Although when spending your money they’re all over you like a rash. Paid through PayPal so have now opened a dispute with them, they’ve now tried to get trust pilot reviews up so worth putting reviews on there also.
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Posted 5 months ago
I’m stil waiting on a manager to call me since March an absolute nightmare of a company. Please do not waste your time money with this untrustworthy unhelpful company, it’s a complete joke. Trading standing now dealing
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Posted 5 months ago
I ordered three mini greenhouses and it hard parts missing so I tried to contact them to send replacement parts, Ha!Ha! I've rung with no answer after a good ten minutes, then again and transferred to another department with no answer so I eventually hung up. I've emailed and had no reply so it's fairly obvious they just don't give a monkey's whatsit. My purchase may not of been large but it's no good to me as it is, so money wasted. Don't order from them is my advice!
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Posted 5 months ago
Worst customer service, guaranteed in six weeks 7 1/2 weeks later half of it turned up Payed £220 to a carpenter to come build it and couldn’t do it as parts missing Build quality is ridiculous nails Thanks sticking out everywhere, wood split. Rang up and they didn’t care at all, money back and take this so called shed back
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Posted 5 months ago
I ordered three mini greenhouses from them and when I tried to put them together found there were parts missing. I've tried to ring them and first off it just rang and rang so I eventually hung up. The second time I rang the order line and someone answered promptly (surprise, surprise) as soon as she realised it was a complaint I was transferred, and again it just rang and rang. I tried the online instant chat and after me explaining what the problem was, I was told to ring them if I needed help. Ha! Ha! I was going to try emailing them but after reading the other reviews here I realise it would be just wasting more of my time as they're clearly not interested in sorting out customer complaints. What a dreadful company! Do not order from them!!
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Posted 6 months ago
PLEASE AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS!! This is one of the worst companies I have had to deal with. Placed the order in April and it arrived 14 weeks later!! They even had the audacity to charge over £400.00 for delivery. No positive feedback (when I finally do receive a response from them). The whole process has affected us as a business as we were unable to do what we wanted to do as it took forever to receive the delivery and even then it was flat-packed. 14 weeks for a flat-pack delivery and you are advertising the shed on your website?
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Posted 6 months ago
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Posted 6 months ago
9 weeks and still no complete shed. Wait week after week after phone call for missing parts. First the initial order took 6 weeks to arrive with no roof parts and the gable ends where damaged waited 2 more weeks out shed up but missing door panel so another 3 weeks and still waiting parts to arrive. I call and get told it will be next week...over and over again.
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Posted 7 months ago
Good price, good delivery, solidly built
Garden Buildings Direct 4 star review on 11th July 2024
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Posted 7 months ago
After waiting about six weeks for our Billy Oh 10x8 summer house to be delivered, I was surprised to find that most of tye panels were incomplete very few of tye end timbers were fitted, this explained the piles of 2" square pile of sticks, upon erecting the building it became clear that this was a very long way for good quality, some of tye panel end timbers that were fitted had two nails instead of the neccecessaty three, the doors are warped, the door opening is so badly finished (irregular slight overlap of panels between window and door opening) that it is not possible to fit the hinges to allow outward opening as shown on the photo of the finished building, the framing timbers are too thin for the height at the back in particular, flops about like a tent when painting it, upon unpacking the plastic windows ALL of the ones that were delivered were damaged, obviously NOT real plexiglass, this stuff is used for machine guards, the door windows were NOT supplied, I have two delivery replacement windows the latest was five windows, three of which were broken. The instructions state that the build time for this "SHED" is 6 to 10 hours for two people, after six weeks mine is still unusable due to incomplete and broken parts being delivered. When I have finished strengthening the floppy back and and "with luck" receiving some unbroken windows, in about three weeks time we will hopefully have a summer house that we can use.I AM THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED, and I am unable to say anything good about it or tye company.
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Posted 7 months ago
STAY AWAY! Do not buy from this company! Products are poorly made, bits missing and broken upon delivery and when you ring or use the online portal, they fob you off with dodgy excuses and no assistance. I had a carpenter fit my shed and still it didn't measure up, he had never seen such a poorly produced piece of wood work, let alone a shed! Upon complaining about the 5 week wait and lack of contact as well as damaged upon delivery and missing goods, they told me the won't give any money back and would potentially exchange damaged goods. I cannot wait another 5 weeks for them to put right what they should have done correctly in the first place! Stay away!
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Posted 7 months ago
DO NOT BUY. I am incredibly disappointed with the abysmal customer service provided by Garden Buildings Direct. My experience has been nothing short of a nightmare from start to finish. Four weeks ago, I ordered a summer house, parting with a substantial amount of £2500. Since then, it has been radio silence from the company. Despite numerous attempts to get an update on my order, no one can tell me when it will arrive. The call handlers I've spoken to have been unhelpful and downright rude, providing no useful information and often fobbing me off with vague assurances. To make matters worse, the manager, who promised to call me back, has failed to do so repeatedly. The lack of accountability and transparency is shocking. I was told that contacting their production team to get a lead time is not possible. This is unacceptable for a company that claims to value its customers. Overall, this has been the worst service I have ever experienced. I am left £2500 out of pocket with no idea if or when I will receive my summer house. I strongly advise anyone considering doing business with Garden Buildings Direct to look elsewhere. Save yourself the frustration and find a company that actually respects its customers.
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Posted 7 months ago
Customer service is appalling. Never received item, didn't get replacement and they told PayPal I had received it. Photos even proved delivery door wasn't mine. Do not use!
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Posted 8 months ago
I wish we never went with these, they sent some timber parts different size to others so now i cant get the roof on and the cabin is now starting to warp, they are saying they cant get the parts for up to a week so god knows what it will look like then this is due to lots of other customers waiting for their replacement parts, i said take it back and all they say is take it down and we will collect it instead of trying to sort the problem out quickly, i will take it down its no where as good quality as my last one.
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Posted 8 months ago
Garden Buildings Direct is rated 1.1 based on 391 reviews