DIY Shed Kits contain all pieces you require to install a shed of your choice. Generally, the kit will contain everything required even a tube of silicon to finish off roof or window joints.
Shed Plans are also an especially important inclusion. The quality of plans varies just as the quality and simplicity of plans vary with goods bought in Ikea so make sure you have good instructions before buying.
The simplicity of installing DIY Shed Kits
Shed Kits can usually be installed by most DIY handyperson but two people are usually necessary, even installing small sheds. Often one person is just holding while the other drills.
There is usually little cutting or drilling involved in installing a small off-shelf shed. A good custom design will also have little cutting or drilling but expect to do some. The main thing is that you have full instructions like the 45 pages supplied by businesses like Professional Choice Sheds.
A DIY Shed kit can be made of vinyl, wood, or metal and all share the same basic design of four 4 walls and a roof but the most popular storage shed kits in Australia are made of metal with Australian Colorbond cladding. Steel sheds offer you the most flexible design, a variety of sizes and long-lasting durability.
Is it Australian Steel? – DIY Shed Kits
Sheds in Australia, particularly the cheaper garden sheds, are usually made with less durable, thinner imported steel. Colorbond is a trusted, proven, durable product. Colorbond colours such as “Classic Cream,” ‘Shale Grey” or “Monument” are Copywrite to BlueScope Steel. Often your colour choice may be Smooth Cream, Slate Grey or Riverwood, all cheap imported cladding that does not have the 20-year Colorbond warranties.
Base Metal Thickness (BMT)
Colorbond will have a minimum BMT of 0.42BMT. The majority of imported steel used in Garden Sheds is a lot less than 0.42BMT and the thickness quotes often include the thickness of the Paint applied to the cladding!
DIY Shed Kits – Off Shelf
Garden sheds can’t usually be customised as most are off-shelf designs. With an off-shelf, what you see is what you get. In larger sheds, you may be able to add additional windows or another door, but you will not be able to alter the dimensions of the shed you buy.
To keep prices low, and the fact that you do not need approval in most cases for a shed up to 9 square metres, a cheaper Australian-made shed using imported steel is adequate. There are a vast range of these smaller garden-shed styles off-the-shelf sheds to choose from. They range from small, narrow under-eve designs to larger garden sheds with roller doors. A full range of these can be found by clicking here.
Custom Designed DIY Shed Kits
The custom-designed range of sheds is as large as your imagination! Here is a list of some of the sheds you can have designed in shed kit form: –
- Garden /Residential Sheds
- Garages
- Workshop Sheds
- Farm Sheds
- Industrial Sheds
- Hay Sheds
- Commercial Workshops
- Warehouses
- Storage Sheds
Cost of smaller Custom-Made sheds. DIY Shed Kits
The types of sheds that can be designed is endless. Every shed must be supplied with site-specific engineering designed to all Australian Standards. This means that you have a specialist engineer working on your personal shed kit. In the medium to large sheds, the cost of the engineering drawings, plans and certification becomes a small percentage of the overall cost. In a small shed around or under 10 square metres, the engineering costs may be around the same price as a much larger shed.
The reason why a small custom shed can be expensive
An engineer may spend a couple of hours designing a 10 x 10 shed, but it may be around exactly the same time to design a 3 x 3 shed. This means that the delivered price of a custom-designed small shed can be prohibitive, and you may be better looking at off-shelf. There will be a massive difference always in the high quality and high specifications you get on a custom-made shed as opposed to an off-shelf shed.
Where to buy your DIY Shed Kits
When it comes to taking the hassle out of your new shed, Professional Choice Sheds offers the best quality and best engineering plans available in Australia.
Professional Choice Sheds use only Australian BlueScope steel for all their sheds. Professional Choice Sheds is one of the few businesses in Australia that ensure that Australian Standards are met in their product and there is no cheating by business-employed certifiers. You can have confidence knowing that the investment you make in your new steel building will last.
Summary – DIY Shed Kits
If you are looking for a garden shed, residential shed, or commercial shed for your farm or business Professional Choice Sheds or Car Covers and Shelter have got a range to meet your requirements.
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