So most of you already know that my new offgrid cabin is a Derksen portable building. At least, if you've been following this channel or my blog, you know that. But as I've been promising all along, here are 5 reasons I won't buy another Derksen portable building.

To be honest, some of these issues can also be found in other portable buildings converted to homes or offgrid cabins. But not all. You have to remember, you're buying a shed, not a tiny home.

But before I bought a Derksen portable building, I had looked at hundreds of other portable buildings over about a year that would be used for my off grid cabin. Portable buildings from local builders all the way up to national builders like Derksen and Graceland. Each has their pros and cons, but I eventually I settled on a Derksen 12x24 cabin (portable building) because of their "reputation", the price and the design. Had I known some of the problems with the Derksen portable building I would have had, I would have probably chosen a Graceland or locally built portable building for my offgrid cabin.

Many people choose portable buildings to be used as off the grid cabins only to start having problems down the road. The average person wanting to move and convert a shed to an off grid cabin fails to understand that no matter how these sheds may look, they're all built like sheds! Not traditional homes! That's why all of the sheds I looked at would not meet minimum building codes! Some people find this out too late when they move their shed onto their homestead and then call the building inspector!

Sheds can be a good choice for an offgrid cabin, but you have to understand that there will be additional work that needs to be done to the structure to make it perform like a traditional sitebuilt home.

None of the problems with my Derksen portable buildings itself are such that I can't fix them. It's just irritating that many could have been avoided all along if a few minutes of attention had been given during the construction of the cabin.

If you have converted a shed into a tiny home or cabin and had problems, I'd love to hear from you. It doesn't have to be a Derksen portable building either, just let me know what problems you've had turning a shed into a cabin!

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