Thread: OK show us your shed!!!!

Has anyone poured there own slab before ?

Is there any "gotchas" if I was to try this myself .... I'm thinking of doing a 12 x 12 or 12 x 18 meter slab. There is no way you could drag a levelling board over 12meters. Possibly pouring the slab in four sections would work. ie: four 3 x 18 meter sections (dragging a 3meter levelling board should work).

seeya
Shane L

Four sections would also give you Expansion Joints.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Has anyone poured there own slab before ?

Is there any "gotchas" if I was to try this myself .... I'm thinking of doing a 12 x 12 or 12 x 18 meter slab. There is no way you could drag a levelling board over 12meters. Possibly pouring the slab in four sections would work. ie: four 3 x 18 meter sections (dragging a 3meter levelling board should work).

seeya
Shane L

I have helped pour a few, drive a half inch reo peg in at about 3 meter spacings at slab height, when the pour starts you put a pad of cement around the peg and then screed and level off the pad, then run along with a hammer and tap down peg and plug. job done.
when I built my shed, I boxed it all and fixed reo etc, then payed a concreted gang to pour and finish. A lot easier
cheers
blaze

Well my brothers shed hasn't happened yet (he's just moved out of his industrial shed that he was renting) .... so probably in the future.

In the meantime I've been driven crazy as there is nowhere to store higher stuff....

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I have already thrown up the very low leanto down one side of the shed..... I'm thinking the same thing for the other side..... well it won't really be a leanto, it'll be a skillion, as its self supporting. I'll but it up against the shed, and have the wall height about 5meters .... dropping down to 4.2. I'm thinking for cheapness of build, I'll go a 12meter span with a row of posts down the middle ( so a 12 x 12meter extension, but with supporting posts at 6meters). Where it butts up to the existing shed (but is probably twice the height) I'll put lazerlite as wall sheets to fill the gap in heights, to allow light in.

I've been hunting around facebook marketplace only for a few days. First time I looked I found a pair of cheap 3meter high roller doors (unbelievable .... those thing are impossible to find) ...so I quickly grabbed them. Then I'll be damned, 3 days later, someone in town advertised two sets of big industrial roller doors.... 4.2 x 2.2 ... Obviously I sent them a message instantly and said "mine, mine, mine, mine.... I'll bring money over". I couldn't care what the doors look like, I'll modify there sizes to fit and re-clad them with new sheets. What I wanted was the rails, 4 sets of rollers and the track awnings. I'll make three 3meters doors with the frames and run them along the shed wall out in the paddock... that way caravans and trailers can easily be put in the shed without all the dodging, swearing and frustration of trying to maneuver around everyhting in the yard.

I think I've gathered enough materials here now to keep me busy for the rest of winter! What I didn't realise is my brother just dropped his forklift off for storage. If only the damn ground would dry out enough, that is going to make getting roof sheets and purlins 5meters up in the air very easy. The tiny looking look toy forklift must weigh 4tons .... it sank the second it left the drive ....

seeya,
Shane L.

Sooo ..... this person here decided to start throwing up a leanto beside the shed here ...... And someone dobbed me into the local council (weirdly not one of the neighbours I think..... Twice someone parked along side my place and sat there watching me for a few minutes .... then drove back off down the street). sigh .... anyway.... So now endless hassles just like the house extension.

First step is I'll need to get engineering diagrams for what I'm building. It should pass but I'll need someone to write them up which may prove difficult. I emailed one mob and they got right back to me. They however use a design program by the sounds of it, and it couldn't handle the skillion I'm (attempting) to throw up.

I downloaded sketchup and tried to make a dodgy layout so they could understand what I was trying to build ( a few pictures is simpler than a thousand words).

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All the uprights and trusses will be C200 (span tables say they should span 6meters fine) and all the rest is 64mm top hat batton (which should span 3meters at 1.1 meter spacing unless I've completely muddled the specs on it). Does anyone have any suggestions on an engineer I can approach

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Sooo ..... this person here decided to start throwing up a leanto beside the shed here ...... And someone dobbed me into the local council (weirdly not one of the neighbours I think..... Twice someone parked along side my place and sat there watching me for a few minutes .... then drove back off down the street). sigh .... anyway.... So now endless hassles just like the house extension.

First step is I'll need to get engineering diagrams for what I'm building. It should pass but I'll need someone to write them up which may prove difficult. I emailed one mob and they got right back to me. They however use a design program by the sounds of it, and it couldn't handle the skillion I'm (attempting) to throw up.

I downloaded sketchup and tried to make a dodgy layout so they could understand what I was trying to build ( a few pictures is simpler than a thousand words).

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All the uprights and trusses will be C200 (span tables say they should span 6meters fine) and all the rest is 64mm top hat batton (which should span 3meters at 1.1 meter spacing unless I've completely muddled the specs on it). Does anyone have any suggestions on an engineer I can approach

Pm coming your way

Oh that might not make a lot of sense. This is what I'm aiming for.

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3meter high roller doors so 4wds/tractors/caravans should fit in.

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yeah I know to open the end door, you need to slide all 3 along. I can put caravans and high stuff in here as the doors will be about 4meters high.

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I know it looks really dumb in the diagrams. But in reality. you will only see this from the house (the two 3meter high roller doors will sneak in behind those trees). The rest of the shed is out into the side paddock. You can turn a semi-trailer (so also turn caravans ) out there very easily. So big/long stuff won't be a problem to get into the shed any longer.

I'd probably have this up by now (well probably no doors yet but anyway ..... ). But now I'm probably looking 12months down the track.

I'll probably need:
-vic gov approval for extension (as it's over 100sq meters, so it needs a permit)
-engineering diagrams.
-a surveyor that won't tell me to go jump in the lake when he sees I already have some of the uprights in .... This might be the hardest bit. As the surveyor has to check the post hole depths and get the council permits
-i might need to get a home builders license if the surveyor deems the structure over $14K in value. even though it will cost less than that, they will probably use an "average cost" formulae to decide.

This bull**** took nearly two years for the house extension as the council and draftsmen etc... are so incredibly impossible to deal with. I was hoping to just throw this up and not deal with any of this crap (none of the other sheds or out buildings here have permits. They never did when we bought the place and never will). I did have to sign something accepting them them without permits when I bought the place.

Why not build the shed in stages, under 100 sq m each?