Forever-ODM LLC was originally founded in 2015 by Kathy & Don in Seattle metro area as the Just-In-Time service provider on some mechanical components for a large OEM customer. While the company still serve its OEM customer now, we later also created our consumer business on our own designed generator shed and mobile patio umbrella products under our registered GENSHED brand.
What triggered us to get into the generator shed and mobile umbrella consumer business comes from our personal experience. Like most of the areas in the US, we always have a couple of power outage days each winter, so to get a backup generator is necessary for both our business and home. While to get a standby generator cost more than $10k, we could not find a shed on the market so we can put our portable generator inside for running and storage. As a mechanical engineer, Don eventually designed the generator shed that can fit the portable generator inside for running and storage, just like a standby generator but at a fraction of its cost. The same story for the mobile patio umbrella base/set invention - the Sun moves and after sitting in the same spot for 20 minutes, the shade is gone and we could not find any real mobile umbrella on the market that you can easily move it at full weight, so again Don designed the mobile base with a much larger wheels to make the moves really easy.
While these products are originally developed for our own use, we believed some other people may have the same requirement and may look for the same solutions. So after several round of design changes based on our own experience, we finalized our design and introduced them to the market under GENSHED brand. Even though compared to the generator covers and generator tent design, our generator shed design double or triple the weight of the other designs due to the enclosed steel frame to wrap the generator inside, we are still working on every corner trying to make the cost as close as to the other designs so our customers get the best value of our products.
No marketing tricks and no price game, we encourage you to check and compare what you see on the market to see if we provide you the best choice on protecting your generator in both running and storage condition.