The powers that be, my loverly wife, has told me I may be allowed a VW, yahoo! The condition being she gets a garage for our other vehicle, a 12 seater Toyota bus, can be housed in it as well. Her other condition is it not be just your regular tin shed.

So I am wondering if anyone knows of a company who builds kit two vehicle garages along the east coast of Oz that look okay? I guess timber or fibro would be okay but there will be an approval process!

Hey don't ask me my interior design skills are confined to slapping on paint and no I don't choose the colours either!

Thanks..........

I assume this is on LHI, best to get a strong steel frame and clad it with the required materials, brick, weatherboard, flat sheet and texture etc. having recently retired from the industrie (but still retaining my builders licence) I may be able to help in exchange for a bit of a holiday in LHI but at the worst I can stear you along the paths of righteousness, PM sent

Hi Pete,

This mob can do just the frame in kit form and you clad it with whatever you like. http://thesteelframingcompany.com.au/sheds-and-garages

or this mob you could just order without cladding. http://www.customsheds.com.au/products/garages--workshops

Have a google,there seems to be tons of flexible businesses about.

Regards,

Matt.

Best thing about being single is building your own massive workshop and having all YOUR! cars in it and no one to bother you


problem ?

lol ... there's always "one condition" eh dubbyfan?? tell her you need the vw first so you know how big to make the shed... no point building it, only to find out your new car won't fit

Hey thanks everyone great tips and advise, sometimes I think
you Google and get too much info and then get lost. I am grateful for the help, some food for thought great stuff!

One of our big issues is freight, two weekly ship $280.00 per sq metre, do the maths, yep the price you pay to live in paradise.

giving it a bit more thought you may be better off with a timber frame as steel don't like salt air, though there is a grade of steel meant for areas close to the coast, depents a lot on how close to the coast you are and what external finish you want (and of course what building regs you have there in paradise)

wood and painted gal frame, colorbond sheets I recon would be the most corrosion resistance.

zincalum is the most corrosive resistive but it hates salt and acids or different metals in contact with it in a free ion solution (aka traces of salts/minerals in water)

If you do it in Colorbond, you would need at least Colorbond Ultra for corrosion resistance I reckon.

You probably should use Colorbond stainless steel, but it is very hexy.

I remember how salty it was over there when we built Friendly's place.

stratco do kits

greedy, for Stratco it's shit, not kit. I've seen em.