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1.1 Rating 385 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Garden Buildings Direct
1.1
Based on 385 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 27%
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
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 6th December 2024
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd November 2024
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd November 2024
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
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Garden Buildings Direct 1 star review on 22nd September 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I bought a 20" x 10" premium workshop from these people. The quality is horrendous. I now have a shed with walls that lean out at the top and a roof that has sagged. The trussses are not of sufficient size to support the roof and have all bent under the weight. The company will send out replacements, but do not seem to understand that there is a fundamental design issue with the the shed. If I replace the trusses with more of the same I will be left with the same problem. They are not prepared to offer any kind of compensation.
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Posted 7 years ago
Ordered and 12x8 wooden shed. Arrived promptly enough, but that's where the good news ends. Upon delivery I noticed one broken panel which I reported and was promised a replacement panel which never arrived. It only got worse. I had a professional do the installation and no sooner had he started when he told me that due to numerous manufacturing defects he would not be able to complete the installation. The panels were so poorly constructed that the shed would definitely have leaked. I still had to pay the installer. Then I had to fight to have it returned for a full refund. They eventually agreed, but wanted to charge me £96 for the collection. Had to argue about that too before they agreed to collect free of charge as the Consumer Rights Act requires. Still no offer of any compensation whatsoever. Just a bunch of scripted emails telling me how sorry they were, that these incidents were rare and that their T&C's requires customers to inspect all parts to ensure their quality! If the people who build these panels and the people who check these panels before they leave the warehouse could not detect the defects, how can they reasonably expect me to? Wish I had read more reviews before going with them! Avoid!!!
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Posted 7 years ago
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU THINK TWICE BEFORE USING THIS COMPANY. ALTHOUGH THEY SEEM CHEAPER THAN THE REST IT IS NOT WORTH THE HASSLE. I ordered a BillyOh 4000 shed from the company. The delivery date got changed the night before it was due to be delivered. I am not able to assemble the shed myself so I booked a handyman to help which I had to cancel and pay to compensate for the time lost. When the shed arrived and was being assembled we discovered that wrong parts were sent, some parts were damaged and the shed was actually made of very poor quality materials. I phoned up to explain that I wanted to return the shed and was told to first provide photographic evidence of the problems. I did that and then had to chase them for several days to agree a pick up date and refund. In the end it took numerous emails, phone calls and online chats before the shed was picked up from my driveway more than three weeks later and then I had to once again chase for a refund.
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Posted 7 years ago
Avoid, avoid, avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!! Local companies will deliver and BUILD better sheds cheaper. After 8 week I finally returned the awful product have my money back - Shed delivered with 4 RHS panels and 0 LHS front/back panels - They came back to house 3 more times over next 3weeks and each time delivered 2 more RHS panels - Quality of parts delivered is awful (4 damaged) - Parts are mis-labelled at factory, and call centre and factory are completely disconnected - each time you communicate with them a different person replies - I have 70 emails in my inbox and spent 5+ hours on the phone - the delivery drivers are stuck in the middle and even they advise you to return it all as so many customers are having these issues I never leave reviews but this was my worst consumer experience in 40years!!!!!!
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Posted 7 years ago
Give them one star because i had too Give them one star because i had too Terible service missing wood on panels and missing 4 inch gap between the doors and also hinges to thick on doors so had to shave them roof covering to short then called customer services abroad somewhere to hear that i cannot claim anything because the terms and conditions stated everything had been delivered so everything is ok although what was delivered was short of wood and material PLEASE DONT WAIST YOUR MONEY WHAT A BAD COMPANY WITH A VERY BAD CUSTOMERS SERVICE WORST PURCHASE EVER
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Posted 7 years ago
PLEASE READ THIS!! I should have known, in all my years I have learnt you get what you pay for. Quality Log Cabins are £3.5k, if you see one for £1k you should know better. This is the single worst product I HAVE EVER BOUGHT. The timber arrives in 200+ pieces. It is untreated. You have to set up a production line to apply 2 coats of preserve, drying in between and 2 coats varnish or paint later. That took us nearly 6 weeks!!! We had to get pallets to rest drying timbers on, saw horses to sit the timbers on while applying, removal blankets to cover the garage floor and driveway to stop the preserve/laquer staining the floors, bike covers to move bicycles out of the garage to achieve enough room to treat, lay out while drying and then store treated timbers until the whole thing was finished. If you live in a house with no garage and no driveway, I have no idea how you would do this?? It is in tiny, tiny letters on the selling website, that the timbers are untreated. It was the delivery driver who really explained that to us. 33% of the parts were missing. Of the 66% we did have, 25% were damaged or incorrectly produced. We were provided with the wrong instructions and wrong parts list (we didn't know that until after we started the build and phoned for missing parts. They emailed us a parts list which was completely different to the one we received with the delivery. The missing parts arrived 10 days later, then they have to be treated, but 50% of the missing parts were missing!! I worked out that I could buy the missing structural pices from the local timber merchants and the rest were all fascia pieces, so we could still finish the build. 2 weeks on I still have no fascia pieces and cannot get any response from GBD. We decided on clear laquer, as we wanted the light timber look. The 2 batches of timber received, plus the ones we sourced locally, are all different colours, it looks bloody awful. The first delivery arrived 15th April and we still have parts missing. The quality of timber is dreadful, its thin and flimsy with incorrect cut outs on view on wrongly made boards. With associated costs, varnish, brushes, local timber etc, we have spent an additional £500 finishing a 10x8 cabin that cost £1000. It's not finished yet and it looks an eyesore. I haven't decided yet whether to paint it and live with it or set alight to it. If you don't have the £3.5k for a proper log cabin, please, please., please, either save until you do, or just buy a tried and trusted shed from your local timber merchant. NEVER buy from these people. They are, by some distance, the overall worst seller I have ever had the misfortune to buy from. Totally my fault, I should have known. But in fairness, even at my most cynical, I couldn't have guessed this. (the above is an accurate and abridged version of the full story!!)
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Posted 7 years ago
My advise is pay a bit more cash and go elsewhere
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Posted 7 years ago
Never ever use this company!!! Their customer service is absolutely appalling, goods don't arrive on time and when they do there are parts missing. It is impossible to speak to someone from the UK and the overseas call centre is the most unhelpful that I've ever dealt with.
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Posted 7 years ago
WARNING!! DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!!! We brought a playhouse from this company for £219 a year ago. It has lasted only 1 year! The customer service is awful and their call centre is in the Philippines, you never get through to the U.K based office and they never ring you back. YOU HAVE RIGHTS CALL TRADING STANDARDS AND CITIZENS ADVICE The more people that do we will see these people be brought to justice! I can't believe they are selling products which are deemed unsafe for children!!
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Posted 7 years ago
Terrible company to deal with; the customer care centre is just a call centre based in the Philippines who claim to only have email contact with the UK company. I received numerous messages that they were still waiting for a part before shipping. I called to find out what it was and was told it was the door, I asked for it to be shipped with the door to follow so I could pre-paint (as they recommend) and build most of the shed before the door was needed. They said they would have to contact the company and phone back. They never phoned back and when I chased they wouldn’t send without the door. When it finally arrived there was no parts list or no instructions (so they had to email these) and a number of warped boards. It took a week for replacement boards to arrive and the replacement order wasn’t correct. When I started building I found the back bottom plate was the wrong size, I couldn’t wait for another replacement so had to trim 5mm off the entire length of the board. One hinge was also locked up and unable to be used. They recommend screw holes are pre-drilled which is necessary, just a shame they don’t take their own advice as many pre-drilled parts had split at the screws. A number of boards were also pretty rough in places, particularly the cutouts – not the quality you expect for the cost of the shed. So overall a very bad experience and I would strongly recommend not using this company.
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Posted 7 years ago
Terrible company to deal with. Bought a home office, was delivered incomplete, we had a second delivery a week later, also incomplete, the 3rd delivery did not turn up so we wasted a day in waiting for nothing, the 4th delivery also didnt turn up, even though on the day we made several phone calls to check, and they assured us it would. Even at 8pm in the evening I was told it was still out for delivery until I pressed them and finally go them to admit it was not. Downright nasty in my opinion to make someone wait in for a delivery which they know is not going to arrive. They also admitted in the end that they dont do Saturday deliveries. I have copies of all correspondance and live chat logs, to back all that i have said up and will be happy to produce all this on request.
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Posted 7 years ago
wish i would have read these review before i bought from them utter rubbish service and poor quality sell you flat pack items without advertising them as flat pack, changed my delivery date 3 times and then finally when it does its very bad quality you get what you pay for - in this case RUBBISH avoid these at all costs
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Posted 7 years ago
do not buy anything from the company. I have received extremely bad experience and havent received all parts for more than a month. Still they can not send right parts!
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Posted 7 years ago
Really poor condition, missing parts comes after two weeks, spending hours speaking with customer service which wasn't helpful at all. Really Disappointed !!!!!!!!!! Don't buy anything from them.
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Posted 7 years ago
Ordered a playhouse in December, first they did not deliver the slide, then the paint they supplied was unusable (very watery with lumps of colour in it). Then after 3 months the wood began to split on the tower and side panels - awful quality. Customer services very unhelpful
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Posted 7 years ago
Do not buy from this company!! The quality of wood is very poor, the playhouse didn't last six months, the roof leaked in and completly soaked the inside of the roof. Water came in from the bottom. Customer service is shocking. They don't care about their customers.
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Posted 7 years ago
Think twice about buying anything from this company. The house look nothing like they do on the site. Instruction quantities don't tally up with how many panels are actually needed so you'll be treat like a criminal when you phone up for the missing parts as the drivers 'take photos' to prove things are delivered. The quality of my house is shocking, I paid £400 for a house full of jagged edges, gaps everywhere, panels which don't line up, the list is endless! I paid a joiner to come and put the house together and when I phoned customer service, they suggested that he remove all the lats from the frames and cut them all to the same length then refit. (Basically how it should have been done by them) they offered me a £40 refund to do this. Absolute joke! It would have took someone days to do this. I had no choice but to go ahead and have it built as it was otherwise I wouldn't have had my daughters birthday present in time. I'm still awaiting a response to my complaint from the resolutions team which was sent over a week ago! Even the drivers who work for them expressed their disgust at the quality of products they send out to customers!
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Posted 7 years ago
Ordered a log cabin at the beginning of February and 2 months later never received. got a full refund in the end but customer service is awful and the company very hard to deal with. would not recommend to anyone.
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Posted 7 years ago
Horrible! Rotted wood, no measurments add up and they refuse to collect and refund! Avoid this company!!
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Posted 7 years ago
Absolutely disgraceful customer service. Lies after lies after lies about the delivery - only letting you know its not coming the next day about 8pm the night before - so planning days off work for delivery is pointless! In the end, they were just useless on the phone - not in sync with logistics at all - so I cancelled the order for a full refund. Not sure how long that's going to take! WARNING : DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!
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Posted 7 years ago
Garden Buildings Direct is rated 1.1 based on 385 reviews