Steel Sheds - Plans, DIY?
We just bought a 4 x 3 steel shed from Stratco and it cost about $1000. Seems to me there's only a few hundred dollars worth of steel in what was delivered to us.
We need a bigger shed, later, about 10 x 6 or maybe even bigger. This little thing and the apparent ripoff made me think we should design our own, buy the steel, build it.
Found a thread here that talked a bit about that but it was from 2006, things may have changed a bit.
It suggested that you can't buy the steel yourself any cheaper than you can buy these 'kits' from the suppliers.
Is that still true?
Was I wrong about this 'ripoff' on the small 4x3 ? Or was I perhaps right on the 4 x 3 but when the sheds get larger the ripoffs get smaller or diminish to nothing?
I started googling because to design our own we need to know something about how they need to be built. We needed some plans. I couldn't find any. That thread mentioned that, too, suggesting no one is going to let you have plans until you buy the shed.
And some of them don't even give you plans then.
But the best ones do and this is a selling point, because the councils will accept their plans no problem.
So does anyone know about that aspect? Are plans available somewhere?
In a nutshell: what's the best way to go for sheds about that size - 10 x 6?
regards,
ab