Hi Glen

You'll find it difficult to buy the timber and stuff to build a shed cheaper than a cheap ready-made shed, but you'll be able to build a good shed more cheaply than buying a good one, and if you're resourceful and scavenge your materials you can build a reasonable shed for nothing at all.  It really depends on what you want.  I built a 6×4 last year that cost almost nothing at all but it took many hours of effort over many weeks and I spend some quality tea-drinking hours in it every week, I also put up a metal shed from Argos in the garden as a temporary store (which is still there two years later) which cost something like £70 in their sale and as a temporary store it's excellent though you can hardly stand up in it, and then I built an 8×6 from 2×2 and feather edge which cost something like £350 for the materials but it's a solid waterproof shed that'll last for years.

£750 is a fair guide for the basic materials to build your own solid 10 x 12 clad with featheredge.

Simon

Hi Glen

From previous experience you can't buy the timber for cheaper than it is to buy a ready made shed, let alone account for the time it takes to build it. The problem with buying a shed of this size is that the panels are so big, it isn't easy to get them to where you want to build it! My last shed was actually a log cabin because they come in knock-down kit form with the largest parts being the door and windows as they are built log by log (I found a company- http://www.factorycabinsdirect.co.uk, that could make a cabin to my design, which I think is quite unusual with this type of building?). This made life much easier as it had to be taken through my house - not an option with the floor panels let alone the 10' side panel!