Concrete is easy to do yourself if you pre-mark all your levels and have some basic tools. Like any DIY, the more you do yourself the better the project pride!
Also don't forget to run any pipes under your slab out to your pier before you concrete if you dont want to trip over leads later. I used a 50m pipe so I could get cables with plugs on it threaded though and also a power point near the base of the pier is handy!!
I attached some pics of mine including the roller section if anyone is interested.
- Dave.
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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
Concreter from shed mob showed up (at last) , quoted slab $1200 if I go to 3.9m x 3.3m slab , gravel fill and made to building stardards .... ouch !!!
Looks like overkill to me ----it'll only have two telescopes on piers in it and maybe a desk , a lockable cabinet , and a chair inside.
The chap who came this avo is a bit expensive I think and did the hard sell on the steel garden style sheds for the company he works for.
Called another concreter who I'll ask for quote for the same size slab done REAL BASIC.
I can get 4 cum of readymix for $850 (concrete only).
Seriously considering doing my own formwork ( frame only) and just filling it with readymix , even if I pay someone to smooth out and level the top of the wet readymix when layed.
(gives me about 0.7m minimum walk around room from the business end 10" OTA when horizontal , if I go stuck with a 3.8m x 2.4m shed will have only 0.4m minimum walk around room , tha's a bit tight I think .... OTA not been reassembled yet - guessing COG will be about 1/3 way from bottom of tube .)
Pegged out the spot (it will dominate the yard !! if the roof rolls off towards towards the north boundary fence) , time to reconsider LOCATION and ROOF-OFF direction I THINK.
Now thinking along lines of placing the slab nearer my north boundary and rolling off to the either the east or west.
A timber framed 3.8m x 3.2m shed , steel low pitch gable steel roof or convex (not sprung) roof , clad with zincalume steel sheeting or Hardyplank is looking promising.
GEMs on concrete piers is looking better and better too.
Can't be that difficult to get the treated pine cut to length and assemble (nail together) the wall frames , still no quotes on prefab wall frames yet...
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