LONG CREEK — The next time you are in need of a personal storage shed, students at the Long Creek School stand ready to help satisfy your need for a quality outbuilding.

Long Creek High School students and the school’s head of maintenance, Mark Yarbor, are currently building their fifth storage shed of this school semester, with their past creations having already found homes in Long Creek and Prairie City.

The idea to build sheds at Long Creek School came from teachers there, according to junior shed builder Tucker Garringer.

“They offered it to us as a possible class, and we said that we’d like to do it,” Garringer said. “And then we started building sheds.”

The group, comprised of Garringer and fellow Long Creek students Charles Kremaier, Pun Leadsuk and two other students, typically build either 8-foot-by-10-foot or 8-foot-by-12-foot sheds, selling the wooden structures for just enough money to cover materials for the next shed they’ll build and ultimately sell.

Prices for the structures vary but are generally somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 depending on the size, paint options and, of course, the market.

“I think the last one I heard the exact price on was somewhere around $2,500,” Garringer said.

Garringer said he had a small amount of experience in shed building prior to taking on the task of building sheds for the school, although not everybody who is now involved in the building process did.

There are some options for customization, from the color of the structure to the size and even the type of doorknob used on the exterior door. The lone 8-by-12 shed constructed by the students so far was built to that size by request and was painted a different color from that which the students typically use for their builds, also at the buyer’s request.

Garringer said he doesn’t think very much has been done to promote the students’ shed-building services, but their reputation is starting to spread. Awareness of the sheds has largely been spread by word of mouth, while the two structures the students built for the North Fork John Day Watershed Council in Long Creek have served as advertisements.

Not content with simply building sheds for his school, Garringer said he’s been in talks with his brother about parlaying his newfound experience into a full-time business model. While nothing has been set in stone yet, the idea is something Garringer said he is thinking about.

Until then, Garringer and the rest of his class will continue to build the structures for anybody who requests them.

For more information, contact Long Creek School at 541-508-9164.