Advice on Building Plans for Shed Installation

Lkook0000 on 21/08/2022 - 14:51

Not sure if the is is the right place to ask but I’m looking for some advice in regards to a shed I recently purchased.

I went through a local company and custom designed my shed, on one side of the shed I have two windows and a door. All the general drawings and plans of the shed had the top of the windows in line with the door. The shed has just been put up and the windows are a fair bit higher then the door and it looks weird.
I went back to the company and they told me that the shed is put up as per manufacturing plans and the general plans I were given are essentially meaningless. They send me the drawing in question which was one tiny drawing in a whole bunch of others that shower where the framing went. So for me to know that the windows wouldn’t line up I would have had to add 2 of the framing measurements up, add the height of my windows and compare that to the height of the door.

I just feel like this is a bit deceitful as I’m not a builder and I employed them to design the shed how I wanted, all I have to visualise it was the general plans.

Is there anything I can do to make them change it or should I triple check every drawing from now on?

Home & Garden Garden Shed

Comments

  • SF3 on 21/08/2022 - 14:54
    +3

    any mspaint, photos/draws for us to compare the planned design vs built?

    e.g. like the classic swing

  • donkcat on 21/08/2022 - 22:23
    +1

    Shed companies don't normally give out their manufacturing drawings until you have signed contracts and paid for the shed.
    So based on that I would have thought that the design drawings are what your contract is based on and the manufacturing drawings that followed are not really relevant.
    You have signed a contract that shows the doors and windows lining up and at the time of the contract signing you didn't have the contradictory manufacturing drawings,
    as such I think it is on them to build this to the contracted drawings.

    So if this is correct I'd be going back and asking them how you could have possibly known at the time of contract signing that the windows and doors wouldn't line up when the only drawings you had indicated they did. Unless they got you to sign off on the manufacturing drawings I think this is on them.

  • Euphemistic on 22/08/2022 - 11:46

    So what do you want done?

    Just make a bit of ‘dummy door’ and place it above the door to line it up with he windows.

  • nswnotill on 23/08/2022 - 14:56

    Most sheds have steel colorbond cladding with a specific profile. They are normally attached vertically and overlap one another. The sheets are fixed with Tek screws to the steel frame.
    A possible solution may be to unscrew the sheet(s) around the windows and remove them. Reposition the window frames up or down as necessary and then refit the cladding sheets. You may have to purchase a few more sheets of the correct colour and profile and cut to fit.

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