Project: Shed to Games Room Conversion

Just got a quote:

 

Remove roller door.

Batten all walls inside with metal battens.

Supply and install metal grid ceiling.

Insulate all walls and ceiling.

Supply and install acoustic ceiling to ceiling grid, and plaster board to all walls.

Flush joins and sand.

Supply and install glass sliding door unit, 1 x fixed panel, 1 x sliding.

Supply and install skirting to floor and architraves around doorway.

 

Labour / Material

Inc G.S.T. $11,041.00

 

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I'm a bit in shock with this quote, did I accidentally ask for something exotic?

Get a second quote, 11k sounds like a fair price to me , 1 tradie for a week costs around 2.5 to 3 k

Sounds about right.

That's why when I did mine, I did most of it myself.

 

Edit. But definitely get 3 quotes for something like that.

Edited September 11, 2019 by toads

None of this work is particularly hard. Try and find a local tradie who is happy to provide advice and step in when you are out of your depth.

Some of these steps anyone could do, which will reduce the price.

 

ie - remove the roller door, batten the walls and roof, install the insulation.

 

Surprisingly also, a lot of this will be materials. So as you have both sheds start hitting Gumtree and FB marketplace to look for left over building materials which you can store until your ready. I know when I did my shed conversion both the Sliding Door and window were second hand and therefore cheap. Also a lot of insulation installers will have part packs left over from a job. They throw them out as storage is the biggest issue.

 

Lastly it's not a house so a good handyman will be able to do it and be cheaper

Cheers guys, I understand this stuff isn't that hard and heaps of my mates are volunteering saying they can do this or that. I'm not worried I'm being scammed anymore but my wife wont like it.

 

Electrician came today and it'll be somewhere under $4k (as a loose estimate), including the air conditioning system.

 

I estimated $7k for everything so it's looking like it's double or nothing!

Get a second quote, 11k sounds like a fair price to me , 1 tradie for a week costs around 2.5 to 3 k

 

As a guide I go by the cost of materials is about 1/3 the cost of labour and materials combined.

do you really need gyprock? ply will save coin

Just got a quote:

 

Remove roller door.

Batten all walls inside with metal battens.

Supply and install metal grid ceiling.

Insulate all walls and ceiling.

Supply and install acoustic ceiling to ceiling grid, and plaster board to all walls.

Flush joins and sand.

Supply and install glass sliding door unit, 1 x fixed panel, 1 x sliding.

Supply and install skirting to floor and architraves around doorway.

 

Labour / Material

Inc G.S.T. $11,041.00

 

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I'm a bit in shock with this quote, did I accidentally ask for something exotic?

 

And what cost $41.00 you would have thought at that price round down to $11000.

And what cost $41.00 you would have thought at that price round down to $11000.

 

you're clearly not self employed dave.. do you tell your employer to round your wages down?

Turned out he stuffed up the quote and it's 10.1, he was doing another one that added up to 11.0.

 

I'm quite time poor right now, I need this done before summer. I probably should get more quotes and so on to save $500 or whatever but... I also want it to be a well done addition to the house, so I guess it's going to be fast and good not cheap and good.

you're clearly not self employed dave.. do you tell your employer to round your wages down?

 

I was self employed for 28 Years up to 12 months a go when I sold my busines. A small discount could make the differance of getting the job or not!

do you really need gyprock? ply will save coin

 

And you can easily nail and screw stuff to it !

I would be fine with ply but my wife wanted it to be good looking and an investment and so on.

Yes that's the difference Ply is cheaper but it looks terrible.

Mdf looks good with 10mm gap between sheets cheap to

Mdf with a shadow line easy to do

 

 

 

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Work has begun!

 

Been some more progress. Things are moving fast atm.

 

Are you insulating the roof as well?

That was my priority in my Games shed build. Makes a huge difference. Wall insulation helps to keep the noise down :)

Yeah roof has insulation too. You can barely see it in this picture but it's definitely in there :)

 

Things are moving on nice and fast. There must be a catch coming up soon. Probably the A/C.

 

Very nice work. It's amazing how good the humble tin shed can look aye. Insulation makes a big difference. I went two layers of sarking, 100mm gap between them for the roof and then the false ceiling. I used 3 ply plywood. You add it all up, the sarking is R2.5 a piece times 2 is R5 and then the plywood, about R2-3 and the total is R7 -R8. Walls are higher, twin sarking, and R4.5 insulation between with gyprok paneling about R2-R3 again and that total is about R12-13. Pretty extreme but we do get snow.

Thing is, it works a lot better keeping out heat in summer than holding it in in winter. Summer, it can be 32c outside in the shade but inside providing you keep the doors and windows closed, around 20c. Winter might be 0c outside but inside about 8c.

I wish I could throw in some double pail glass windows as well because the glass transfers the outside temperature extremely well. Unfortunately I have to make do with curtains which do work, just not nearly as well as double glass windows.

Not sure what insulation rating it was that went in, but it works well. 40-something degrees today in Mildura and standing in the shed was very much cooler.

 

Need to find a painter now, I have a virus and I'm in no condition to do it myself. Might get some mates and provide them with pizza, some beverages and some money for their time as every painter I ring atm is flat out.

Painting is done. Electrician coming by the end of next week.

 

After that it's just air-conditioning and it's time to move in!

 

Great feeling to see it getting so close to completion. Well done. Look forward to seeing the shots of it all decked out :)

I'm really itching to moving in. I have a lot of consoles and PCBs to setup. (unfortunately I'm supergun only atm, but now that I have space....)