Thread: My shed extensions

Should be a worthy shed extension..... I'm jealous. You going to post this in the "shed" forum and make em cry?.

What at 18x8m extension!?!

My 3x5m shed envies you.

how did you get on getting the trusses passed, I want to extend my car shed and join it on to my carport but the local council reckons they have to be tested before I can put them up, the local steel merchant wants $250 per truss to build them, I can do it for around $90, nice extension by the way, I'm jealous

I have a licence...

Originally Posted by .RC.

Pictures are as follows and are clickable thumbs.

... or not. RC, why do you bother thumb-nailing them? Why make us click again? Or for some of us, manually edit out the 'th_' from the url every time? Sorry to whinge but it just seems pointless. If you want to show us a picture, just show us the picture.

Originally Posted by Dave50

how did you get on getting the trusses passed,

My licence is a drivers licence but it says open which I assume means I can do anything

AFAIK there are no restrictions on what you build where I am as far as anything other then a house goes... In any case they would not care I am not in a town...

Originally Posted by Graziano

Should be a worthy shed extension..... I'm jealous. You going to post this in the "shed" forum and make em cry?.

I just realised there was a shed forum.. I might ask a mod to move it there...

Originally Posted by Bryan

... Why make us click again?

Images directly displayed via the IMG tags here are restricted to 800X600 in size... In my opinion that is too small..

Originally Posted by Dave50

how did you get on getting the trusses passed, I want to extend my car shed and join it on to my carport but the local council reckons they have to be tested before I can put them up, the local steel merchant wants $250 per truss to build them, I can do it for around $90, nice extension by the way, I'm jealous

Sounds like you need a structural engineer to do all the calculations on the design.

Our new block is getting another shed which will be 18 x 9 m. I included this in the permit for the house and it is basically my own design, but does resemble the shed I bought as a kit back in 2002 when things weren't as exxy. The kit back then was around $7000 and eight years later it has increased to nearly triple that.

Yes the price of steel has increased but that much of an increase is incredible.

My own design is from heavier RHS, has heavier connecting plates and uses high tensile bolts throughout. I drew it up in Autocad and had the calculations done and the council granted the permit. Probably cost me about half of the kit price.

Some of these shed companies make a lot of money out of people's ignorance- on current prices for the same shed they are making $10000 for cutting a few lengths of RHS, welding a few plates to the ends, and ordering the correct number of roof and wall sheets and tophat purlins. Of course this is a little bit more work for me but I don't have to buy the materials all at once and can do things at my own pace.

You can do it yourself and save a packet. It would be worthwhile talking to an engineer- it only cost me $500 for the calculations for a shed this size. And I can use the same design again for shed no.3, and even sell the design myself, or even sell a whole shed kit.

However shed no.3 might receive some opposition from the Minister for War and negotiations have already started . Councils can be easier to deal with.....

.RC. Wish I had enough room for another shed, mines 36' x 24' and I'm running out of room, maybe a second floor

Bryan thanks for the tip on the thumbnails

Originally Posted by Gerbilsquasher

However shed no.3 might receive some opposition from the Minister for War and negotiations have already started . Councils can be easier to deal with.....

What do you mean shed no.3? Its the second half of shed no.2

Stuart

Ha! Ha! Ha! Good point Stuart!