HOTFR8
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All happening here 
. A few days ago both the building and planning permits arrived for my extensions. Have been sweating on these for some months not knowing if I would get the go ahead. Council here are not always easy to deal with, although that can be said about many Councils and without talking Politics I think this Council will be voted out at the next election for so many reasons and the one relevant here being delay in issuing permits as that has taken months ( 
seriously as I first started working on the extension plans in January as some of you may know).
Ok as I was never on the forum when I built all this so just a quick history. Well back in 1999 I built this Shed 60 x 30 Colorbond and steel frame but plans at the time required 80 x 40 and Council said no . The Shed was down sized by Council to 60 x 30 and I had to live with that and VCAT (Will not go into that VCAT option here) was not an option at the time. Lucky for me I had not built the house so I changed the House Garage from a two car to a three car and the house was then built soon after and ready to move into in 2000. A few years later I added another two car (well two truck size) Garage so I had more room.
In that time since 2000 I have had many projects pass through my small workshop. I have rebuilt my XP Falcon Sedan both interior, body wise and engine, T Roadster had an engine rebuild. The F4 Truck (HOTFR-8) was built and my C1300 4x4 International truck had all the rust cut out and was repainted. The property was also set up for Solar Power and that has been expanded upon recently so a total of 24 panels in all as well as the smaller two panel system that runs my office (Like a UPS system) in the Shed.
Now fast forward to 2012 and after dealing with a few sad things in my life over the last couple of years that also effected my financial situation, to some extent my health in a small way and also my business I decided it was time to work out how I can expand and improve on what I have so 24 feet will be added on the west end of my present 60 x 30 Shed. So it will be 84 x 30 when finished.
This will give me a lot more room for storage and hopefully a social area (TV and fridge will move out of the office as will some nice comfy chairs but they will move to a more relaxed area of the Shed) in my existing building well as give me workshop space again. The F4 is presently stored in the work shop area. I will still have to keep the F4 in the work shop but it will be in the new closed off area that I intend to build a pit in this new area only due to the fact I do not want a hoist and trucks are better / easier to work on over a pit and the shed was never designed with a hoist in mind all that time ago so I have no way to add a hoist in the extended area.
I have scored many ideas from this forum from many topics and I intend to share them as I progress as I also want the place to gain some character and not just look like a big shed. I will also lose a big part of my driveway and this will change many things on the property (even trailer and car access will change and perhaps the neighbor will no longer call my driveway a racetrack as sadly one of the reasons my shed was downsized by Council in the first place) but the extension is much needed and the access issue can be resolved as I just have to open another access gate into the property.
Sorry no photos I can share with you as yet but they will be following very soon now well hopefully in the next few days weather permitting as the builders will be here this week.
Oh why the name Sheddwellers
? Well I spend so much time here.
. A few days ago both the building and planning permits arrived for my extensions. Have been sweating on these for some months not knowing if I would get the go ahead. Council here are not always easy to deal with, although that can be said about many Councils and without talking Politics I think this Council will be voted out at the next election for so many reasons and the one relevant here being delay in issuing permits as that has taken months ( seriously as I first started working on the extension plans in January as some of you may know). Ok as I was never on the forum when I built all this so just a quick history. Well back in 1999 I built this Shed 60 x 30 Colorbond and steel frame but plans at the time required 80 x 40 and Council said no . The Shed was down sized by Council to 60 x 30 and I had to live with that and VCAT (Will not go into that VCAT option here) was not an option at the time. Lucky for me
I had not built the house so I changed the House Garage from a two car to a three car and the house was then built soon after and ready to move into in 2000. A few years later I added another two car (well two truck size) Garage so I had more room.In that time since 2000 I have had many projects pass through my small workshop. I have rebuilt my XP Falcon Sedan both interior, body wise and engine, T Roadster had an engine rebuild. The F4 Truck (HOTFR-8) was built and my C1300 4x4 International truck had all the rust cut out and was repainted. The property was also set up for Solar Power and that has been expanded upon recently so a total of 24 panels in all as well as the smaller two panel system that runs my office (Like a UPS system) in the Shed.
Now fast forward to 2012 and after dealing with a few sad things in my life over the last couple of years that also effected my financial situation, to some extent my health in a small way and also my business I decided it was time to work out how I can expand and improve on what I have so 24 feet will be added on the west end of my present 60 x 30 Shed. So it will be 84 x 30 when finished.
This will give me a lot more room for storage and hopefully a social area (TV and fridge will move out of the office as will some nice comfy chairs but they will move to a more relaxed area of the Shed) in my existing building well as give me workshop space again. The F4 is presently stored in the work shop area. I will still have to keep the F4 in the work shop but it will be in the new closed off area that I intend to build a pit in this new area only due to the fact I do not want a hoist and trucks are better / easier to work on over a pit and the shed was never designed with a hoist in mind all that time ago so I have no way to add a hoist in the extended area.
I have scored many ideas from this forum from many topics and I intend to share them as I progress as I also want the place to gain some character and not just look like a big shed. I will also lose a big part of my driveway and this will change many things on the property (even trailer and car access will change and perhaps the neighbor will no longer call my driveway a racetrack
as sadly one of the reasons my shed was downsized by Council in the first place) but the extension is much needed and the access issue can be resolved as I just have to open another access gate into the property. Sorry no photos I can share with you as yet but they will be following very soon now well hopefully in the next few days weather permitting
as the builders will be here this week.Oh why the name Sheddwellers
? Well I spend so much time here.
A play on words is fun...."Sheddwellers Inn"
and tell him to look it up on the net 
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