Shedzilla - My first 7x10m garage [AUS] driveway complete!
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Hi all,
This thread has been a long time coming and I'm excited to be able to finally start it. If you would like to know a bit more about me, here is a link to my intro thread: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219977
About 3 years ago, my now-wife and I bought our first home, a modest 3 bedroom brick veneer in Melbourne, Australia, 13km north of the CBD. We rented it out while we did some saving, some traveling, got engaged, and then married, before finally moving in at the end of 2013.
Being a car guy, of course I wanted a place with at least a double garage, or the room to build one. The house we settled on had no garage at all, but a nice and flat 720sqm block of land, plenty for me to build my own shed. So from the day we bought it I started saving any spare money I had, and was lucky enough to have saved up the required amount to bite the bullet once we took ownership.
After much deliberation and research into sizing, I eventually settled on 7m deep by 10m wide. I figured I wanted enough room for my project car, a second car if anyone needed work done, and room for a workshop/storage area. With that in mind I figured a 3-car garage would be ideal, which is 6x9m, but I increased the dimensions by 1m each way just to give me a bit more wriggle room. Not quite "Shedzilla" status compared to many of the builds here, but for me it's huge!
I decided to place the shed at the very back of the block, going across the width. Here is a plan a friend of mine drew up for me (roated 180deg compared to the site plan posted above)...
As you can see I have had to stay off the rear perimeter due to an easement, which I will either pave or put some gravel down and use as extra storage space.
The shed I have chosen is a Ranbuild with skillion roof, in all dark grey with vertical corrugated cladding. Even though the house is quite old in it's styling, I wanted to go for a more modern shed since it is detached from the house, hence the skillion roof. I like the all dark-grey look as I think it blends into the background better, but time will tell I guess.
Here is a rough mockup I created to show the layout, there will be a 5m roller door to the right side, with a personal access door next to it. Later on I will be adding a window to the left which I will remove from the house when we fit some french or bi-fold doors...
And some examples of Colorbond Skillion roof sheds in all-grey. I would like to add some wooden accents later on to break it up a bit, maybe clad the access door in stained merbu slats? My cladding will run vertically, as the horizontal requires more material and more framing, therefore ups the cost considerably.
I have plenty of progress to post and I'm looking forward to sharing the journey with you all!
Finished product:
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Hi all,
This thread has been a long time coming and I'm excited to be able to finally start it. If you would like to know a bit more about me, here is a link to my intro thread: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219977
About 3 years ago, my now-wife and I bought our first home, a modest 3 bedroom brick veneer in Melbourne, Australia, 13km north of the CBD. We rented it out while we did some saving, some traveling, got engaged, and then married, before finally moving in at the end of 2013.
Being a car guy, of course I wanted a place with at least a double garage, or the room to build one. The house we settled on had no garage at all, but a nice and flat 720sqm block of land, plenty for me to build my own shed. So from the day we bought it I started saving any spare money I had, and was lucky enough to have saved up the required amount to bite the bullet once we took ownership.
After much deliberation and research into sizing, I eventually settled on 7m deep by 10m wide. I figured I wanted enough room for my project car, a second car if anyone needed work done, and room for a workshop/storage area. With that in mind I figured a 3-car garage would be ideal, which is 6x9m, but I increased the dimensions by 1m each way just to give me a bit more wriggle room. Not quite "Shedzilla" status compared to many of the builds here, but for me it's huge!
I decided to place the shed at the very back of the block, going across the width. Here is a plan a friend of mine drew up for me (roated 180deg compared to the site plan posted above)...
As you can see I have had to stay off the rear perimeter due to an easement, which I will either pave or put some gravel down and use as extra storage space.
The shed I have chosen is a Ranbuild with skillion roof, in all dark grey with vertical corrugated cladding. Even though the house is quite old in it's styling, I wanted to go for a more modern shed since it is detached from the house, hence the skillion roof. I like the all dark-grey look as I think it blends into the background better, but time will tell I guess.
Here is a rough mockup I created to show the layout, there will be a 5m roller door to the right side, with a personal access door next to it. Later on I will be adding a window to the left which I will remove from the house when we fit some french or bi-fold doors...
And some examples of Colorbond Skillion roof sheds in all-grey. I would like to add some wooden accents later on to break it up a bit, maybe clad the access door in stained merbu slats? My cladding will run vertically, as the horizontal requires more material and more framing, therefore ups the cost considerably.
I have plenty of progress to post and I'm looking forward to sharing the journey with you all!
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Yes the instructions are a bit average, all the information is there but you really have to read it over and over again for it to make sense. What I ended up doing was separating it into sections, like frame, cladding, doors and windows, guttering, etc. Makes it easier to manage.
