Thread: OK show us your shed!!!!

Hello All,

Well it has almost been 15 years in the making... earlier tonight I could make inside my shed shine when there was darkness outside. The shed was constructed in August 15 years ago. My idea at the time was to concentrate on the cost of building the shed was the most important thing. Back then I figured that getting electricity hooked up to the shed would be a simpler thing to achieve at my leisure. It is a wonderful experience to flick a switch and have a dark shed become fully illuminated.

There are also 20 amp circuits and 10 amp circuits located in strategic positions within the shed. I can now get my 16 amp MIG welder out of its box and use it.

Oh happy day ... oh happy day...

Kind regards
Lionel ... I see the light! :0)

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Yeah, they make it so easy we all want to follow the rules. I'll tell you a story someday about trying to get approval for our house extension. If you can avoid dealing the council ..... Do it .... take the risk. If they weren't so hard to deal with, more poeple would do the right thing. You would think any sort of building on rural acreage with no overlays, not vegetation removal, no fire issues, no native flaura of fauna, not easements..... would be simple right ? You just pick your bit of grass across the acreage and start building .... Yeah right I was also concerned as none of the shedding here has permit.... so what if they "decided" the shed I was building next to required a permit ... or to come down as well (don't laugh, this is the council we are talking about, they can do anything they feel like). When we purchased the house about 10years ago, we had to sign something saying we are accepting liability for existing shedding (or something similar to that) as it has no permits. a couple of the old sheds look like they were build with already ancient/used materials 30years ago.

Either way, I've contacted a few places and as soon as they see what I'm planning they say "oh our software doesn't deal with skillions". I'm guessing I'll need a proper engineer that actually knows what they are looking at rather than a shed company that must use software that does any checks and balances. I think I'll just change it to be a normal 12 x 12 gable so engineering is simple. The purlin brackets mob so they can do engineering for a 4.1 meter walls with 5meter gable which means I'll still be able to use all the same materials that are already here. I spent a fortune buying new cladding for this shed and the house roof. So it will look "brand new" an not an eyesore to the neighbours.

with regards to the floor. That will come later, it'll just have gravel put down for now. A floor is big money ... a lot more than I have to spend!

I'm just dumbfounded at what is involved in all of this.

So I have the permit as per above
-plans from shed brackets .... I thought this would be simple now.

Moving on.
-I had to hire a registered draftsman to draw a square box on the plan I had
-Get a certificate of instrument
-get a certificat of plan
-get a certificate of register
-Complete the damn home builders course

Finally I sent the documents (a whole god damn of ****load them) out to a local surveyor .... thinking we'd be looking a few hundred for site inspections to check the footing depths .... and maybe the structure. They came back with "build permit assessment $1654 + GST ", site inspections $468.30 + gst, council info request $48.80, levies $51.20, lodgement fee $125.80...

Get this ... We are looking at $2400 to have someone check the post hole depths .... What on earth is the "permit assessment $1654" for ??

So I asked them, "how deep should I dig the holes"...... They say I want an engineer for that and helpfully suggest someone. I'm thinking "couple of hundred for soil test, and maybe the same of the hole size". Get this $2750 just to tell me how big to dig the holes.

This is just absolutely insane. I think I'll just sell everything I've accumulated and forget it. How in the hell does it cost $5100 just to have someone tell me how big to dig the holes ... and someone to look at the holes and say "yep, they look big enough".

I'm looking at easily $6000 if just bull**** to before I can even touch a shovel. Most carports and shed won't even cost that much to buy these days.

seeya
Shane L.

Agree it’s crazy Shane, although I’d be stunned if a shed is only $6k

Mine was $13,000 plus install over 10 years ago.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Agree it’s crazy Shane, although I’d be stunned if a shed is only $6k

Mine was $13,000 plus install over 10 years ago.

Yes of course. but even if this was a 5 x 3 carport. All the same stuff needs to be done (similar to a house build). Structure $1500 to buy .... $6000+ in fees, permits, engineering, etc...

Its all fun right


I just had a look. Double garage kits $6400 .... Carports $1750. However its quite interesting. ebay is full of "temporary" carport structures. So obviously a lot are trying to avoid this minefield

I came across an interesting way to avoid all the permit bulldust a few years ago; a residence that I turned up to whilst at work had a carport that was on wheels. They were small train type wheels, there was a track set into the concrete driveway, probably long enough to move the carport structure it's own length- which they said they had never done!

When I purchased mine back in 2017, the company that I purchased it from organised all the permits for me. Don't remember the cost, but it was not that much.

Nothing like the exorbitant charges Shane is talking about. And yes Shane, you are not wrong about the cost of the floor.

For my shed the floor doubled the price. The way prices are now, I would hate to think what a slab would now cost.

My shed is 12m x20m and the slab from memory was a tad over $20K.

We have a shed.
Just waiting on power, PowerCor made us shift the meter due to the setback on the block. More money out the door.
Waiting for the weather to warm up before painting the floor.
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May I ask where you got that shed.

Looks similar to what i want.

Cheers