I'm looking to purchase a kit shed to install on my property but first I thought I would ask if anyone who has purchased one and installed it would be interested in sharing their shed plans. Just trying to work out if it would be more cost effective for me to source the materials required to build a shed myself. The shed kit plans list all of the individual components required to build the shed so I would be very interested if anyone was willing to share theirs with me. I'm looking to build approximately a 150m2 shed but any plans from 100m2 up would be excellent if you would like to share. If I can get a few plans together I will host them online so other people can learn from them also.
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Would You Like to Share Your Kit Shed Plans?
Assclown on 11/07/2022 - 03:19
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My shed is 400m² but I don't have the plans. Previous owner installed it. It's friggin awesome.
shed flex
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If I saw a 100m x 4m shed I would think it were friggin awesome as well.
It's actually 400m x1m 🙂
Are you serious? So, you can't fit a tractor in there?
Maybe 400 or 800 hand mowers?
That's nothing, my dad has a shed that's 4km x 10cm!
No, you can't see it. It's in another state.
Recently poured concrete for an 800m² shed /flex
Needs to fit a plane and some Ozito mowers
Perfect for your PC12 you keep banging on about.
LEGO planes :)
My shed is 400m²
Had to have somewhere to store the power racks. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/711610
If you need help on what to buy, the chances are you don't have the skills on putting it together safely. Might be better off leaving this one to the pros.
I think you need to get a slab put down, for a start. I would start by Googling a lot of videos on how to put up a shed.
Our family put up a kit garden shed, when I was in my teens, and the ensuing chaos was so hilarious my brother’s friend had to leave because he was laughing so hard. Pity, he was the only one with any height.
Do not put it up in a wind.
Have a lot of people to help you.
Understand the instructions before you start.Dad ended up drilling new holes to bolt things together because he, just, couldn’t get it to all line up. The thing was wonky but it did stay up.
I think you need to get a slab put down, for a start
Not necessarily. Some installers on larger sheds pour the slab after the shed is erected.
It was more a slab will, probably, be needed. Is the OP intending to do that as well?
You will probably need development approval or exemption confirmed before either,
Even if you do get a set of plans and source the material getting the material pre punched and marked for fitment etc will be very hard to do. This will make assembling the shed a lot harder. You will also find that some sizes of material are only available to the kit shed manufacturer as they are not standard retail lines.
I looked at doing exactly this and these where the things that made me choose just to buy a good quality kit. A quick calc of how much material was required and the cost mean't it was cheaper to buy the kit than it was to buy the parts at retail pricing.
Yeah this. ^^^
Unless you can get tradie pricing the kit will probably be cheaper.
I'm currently designing my shed as it is on an odd shaped block and I was up for the challenge. There are a few plans online you can find with enough googling (some councils haven't set up their websites correctly, you can use google to find unlisted pages on their sites where they have uploaded plans for approval).
What is you plan? Are you looking to look at a few shed drawings, get an idea of what sized steel is needed, draw up a design yourself, then purchase the steel and erect yourself?
If so, I'd just go to a shed building company and pay them to design and supply the steel. This would give you a certified design and everything you need delivered to your house.
There is so much more to designing and building a shed than meets the eye, especially if you're in a cyclone region
I have a few contacts with Bluescope, hence I'm trying to work out if this will be more cost effective. When you buy a shed kit they give you the instruction manual on how to build it along with the engineering drawings which itemise the components required to build it. Obviously I'm not interested in any of these having people's personal details or the company's details on them for that matter but I would be interested in seeing them. I'm quite capable at building stuff and I will be doing my own slab as well so that's not an issue. I've found a few shed plans online but not quite what I'm after but I will continue looking for these council plans you speak of.
You can buy just the plans from some shed companies. That way you can source your own steel and build it yourself and be confident it'll pass an inspection.
Any chance you have a contact at Lysaght who can get a price list? I've been asking them for pricing but since I don't have an account it's incredibly difficult to get a reply
Not from Lysaghts sorry 🙁
But leave it with me
Watching with interest, but doubt you'll get much here. People skilled enough to draw up plans for a shed that big are unlikely to do it for free, or if someone has paid to get plans from a pro, then they probably don't have the right to redistribute it.