Custom garage ideas

[atk1]

Hey guys, Im looking at building a big garage to house and to work on my Bedfords and other things. I reckon around 12-15m by 8m by at least 3m stud. Obviously the bigger the better but besides that what other things would make a good Bedford garage? Eg A pitt maybe? A partition for spray painting? Definitely a beer fridge, good work bench. Let me know your thoughts, thanks

[obsession]

buy some pallet racking to make  up a scaffold, the length of the van makes the roof alot easer to do.bar fridge and 5 cougars thanks

[doofhard]

pot belly stove

[Marishka]

if i end up buying the place up murwillumbah im going to buy 4 x 20ft new shipping containers,
put them 2 containers end to end (doors facing eachother) either side,
on a 50 x 50 x 2ft slab of concrete and put a pitched roof between.
be a pisser of a shed for $80,000.

pot belly stove

great minds think alike, lol.
i bought this to put in mine, just havent worked out where in the shed to put it yet,

and need to make some big doors for front of shed also. haha need the doors
before i put the barfridge in and fill it full of Cougars.

marty

[BlackBedford]

G'day

$80,000? ouch!

I have been in the building game for a fair while and have learnt a few tricks.

In 4 days I built a pitched roof shed 10m wide by 8m long by 5m high with a roller door in each end and shelves on 2 walls, for $1000. A 125mm slab cost another $1000 laid! I built a 8m by 7m carport on one side for $400 and a 5m x 6m carport at one end for $150. I am about to build a 8m by 8m carport off the other side for $500.
How?

At auctions I purchased the following:
a large quantity of secondhand corrugated iron at $5 each for 5m lengths,
a quantity of 150mm downgrade C purlins at $5 each,
a quantity of random lengths of W strap found at a tip $0,
2 damaged roller doors at Council cleanup $0,
2 rolls of secondhand fencing mesh scrounged from a Fencing Contractor for $0,
Pallet racking consisting of 10 ends and a quantity of 2m rails for $400. Also included was a large quantity of 20mm pineboard shelving.
4 rolls of insulation for $30 each,
a 20litre bucket of assorted Tek screws for $2,
a quantity of secondhand barge capping for $60,
a large quantity of reo mesh offcuts for $100,
a large quantity of blue metal for $2/ton.

I assembled the shelving into 2 lots of 4 bays and stood them about 7m apart.
I leveled them so that they were parallel and sitting at the same height. On one side I had to dig a bit out, but it leveled OK. I put a cement pad around each of the shelving feet to keep every thing in place.
I made trusses by sitting a 20litre drum in the middle and putting C purlins onto the drum and a shelf on each side, then welding them together. I lifted the trusses up and tek screwed them to the top of the shelving ends.
I filled the ends of the sheds in by welding spare rails together and mounted the roller doors after repairing them.
I put the W strap on the roof as battens and rolled out the fencing mesh to support the insulation.
For the walls I tek screwed the corrugated iron onto the shelving and trimmed to height.
For the roof I tek screwed the corrugated iron onto the W strap.
I attached the barge capping and had the shed to lookup in 4 days.
A mate showed up and helped me do the roof but the rest was done by myself.

I have an old tip truck and there is a blue metal quarry nearby so I did a deal with the boys there and got enough blue metal to lay a base for the slab.
I found every bit of plastic I could to lay down as a seal. I laid the pieces of reo mesh like a jigsaw puzzle and welded them together and to the feet of the shelves without burning the plastic.
I did a deal with a local concrete supplier and they supplied the concrete and one of their blokes screeded it off.

The carports were built out of scrounged  parts as above. The 5m x 6m carport was built in 3 hours by my mate and I so that he would have somewhere to park his campervan as it was going to be a very hot day. We got it finished just as the iron was getting too hot to handle.

I now have a solid insulated shed with plenty of shelving and plenty of carport space. And I didn't spend a lot of money doing it.

Property Valuers will confirm that one of the problems with small acreages is that for every $100 you spend on capital improvements, if you are lucky, you will add $10 to the value of the property. Some "improvements" actually decrease the value of your property, so be careful.

So the tricks are to built things for as little money as possible, and use small and flexible structures that can be taken with you when you move, or sold off.

Regards

[Jock]

Chris,

I like the sound of this shed setup.
Have you got some pics?

Who said bargain hunting and scavenging couldn't save you a bob?
Saved you thousands! 

Jd

[BlackBedford]

G'day
I have pictures:

[Marishka]

looks like a cool shed Chris,
marty

[John Abbott]

Now thats a shed!!! No little backyard sewing room for me!!   Well done Chris...cheers..john.

[BlackBedford]

G'day

A couple of notes.
The shed is not big enough as it is FULL of stuff that needs to be sorted and ebayed or thrown out.
There is a 10m site shed that I use as an office.
There is a garden shed used as a carport for a little car. I assembled the garden shed and then welded a 25mm RHS frame around the bottom and one end. I then removed that end wall and the result is one relocatable carport.