Anyone know about sheds

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:38 pm

As alot of you know I just got a house, it becomes mine in about a week and a half.
http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/pr ... 876860.jpg

Currently it has one single garage, and a big empty backyard.

I need to look at putting a fairly large shed in the backyard, at least 3-car size (park two cars, plus plenty of room for workbenches etc).

Should I just put down a whole lot of square concrete slabs and look around for a cheap tin shed to put ontop of that? Otherwise is it worth building one out of bricks with some sort of flat tin roof? Just need some ideas which aren't going to cost the earth basically

Anyone know any cheap builders cause I kinda like the brick idea...

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:06 pm

Maybe go see Vidlers set up... VERY easy to work on cars there. And has a few added things u may not think about... eg: the cement is very smooth... making working under the car a dream.

Dave

vidler · Post by **vidler** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:17 pm

the dude that lives next 2 my parents bought a giant kit shed and put it up himself. ill find out what the company is that makes them

Suba · Post by **Suba** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:18 pm

There aint no way anything that size made out of bricks is going to be cheap,if you got change from 8 thousand for something like that I would be very suprised.

Mike.

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:26 pm

Yeah.....but typical me.....i've been looking in the quokka - lots of free bricks available. And i've been thinking of taking a quick night course at TAFE on bricklaying.

Also u can get those fast-wall bricks which are roughly twice the size of normal bricks - which means half as much brick laying required!

Yeah Dave, ask Jay - I was inspecting it very closely when I was over there last

subanator · Post by **subanator** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:10 am

Andrew, I got a 2nd hand shed and bought a Ryobi Tek gun for $160 brand new, and pulled down the shed to assembled side panels, and transported the whole lot back to my place on a car trailer towed by the MY from Waroona back to Mandurah. It made a slow trip doing 80kph, did it easy.
Advantage here was it was the shed was originally "sitting on top of the slab", not poured inside as usually the case. (and makes the sheets last longer)
When I put it up I did the same, laid the slab with re-enforcement mesh, then built the shed on top. Another tip is to get a white paint marker pen and number all joins, laps and trusses in an order front to back.
Then you goto get a copy of the original engineered drawings by the manufacturer, as they need to be submitted to the council for planning approval etc. (engineers number required)
Keep looking around, they do come up here and there. Good luck.

chriSTIan · Post by **chriSTIan** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:52 pm

As Subanator said,get council approval,get it 1st before you buy a shed,they have restrictions on size and height.
I did the same as Subanator,bought a 6m/9m shed 2nd hand,only difference being that i have pavers in there and not concrete.
The pavers cost me nothing and i put them down myself,i must say that a slab would be nicer.
I only use my sheld as storage(cars and parts) i can fit 3 cars+all sorts of parts in there.A bit of a tight squeeze.
Don't forget to run power and maybe a phone line too.Comes in handy.

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:43 am

Yeah, I may even use a bunch of concrete slabs - they seem to come up cheap or free in the quokka fairly regularly.
I have to do something asap anyways...
House only has 1 undercover parking spot - and if you park there, you block access to the backyard!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:15 pm

I bought a new 6x6 flat top steel shed for $1000 a few years ago. To buy them this way it can only come in grey because they make it out of the left over sheets & turn them facing inwards. Look in the Sunday times & the quokka, they advertise sometimes.

Make sure you lay a proper cement slab because slabs are a pain. The motor lift doesn't like it & anything small enough that you drop always falls between the cracks. You need about 100 slabs to do a 6x6.

6x6 is not big enough. It is only big enough for the Suba & the wreck but you still need room for the workbench & the pile of spare motors, gearboxes, panels etc. I would definatley have got a 6x9 if I had known better.

Remember to install an I beam with a running block & tackle for all those nasty lifting jobs.

Kev

vidler · Post by **vidler** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:26 pm

if you want bricks, one of my mates parents own a brick yard, so i may be able 2 help you with a decent price... not sure though

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:15 pm

If you want it made out of Lego... i may be able to help... i was good at that stuff back in the day.

Dave