Does anyone know of a reasonably priced agricultural building manufacturer, please? Not the great big ones, its for my goats and sheep ....thinking 60 x 40ft or even 30 x 20ft.
I would be tempted to have telegraph poles up and erect ones ourselves, which is what the farmer alongside our new land has done, but knowing our luck, we would have the council on our backs.
Some of the prices I have been quoted - thats for the shed, delivery and putting it up, are alarming, and way over what I wanted to pay (£13,000 in one case, without the concrete panels down the sides)
I could not justify paying that prices. Want a decent shed, and as they say, you get what you pay for .....but even so. I would also have to add the price of digging out, and concrete base on to the price. May as well build a house11
The price quoted is (sadly, due to the rocketing price of steel and all the VAT) pretty standard. We had a quote from a local (honest we think) chap and it came to approx £10-11k for a shed a little smaller than 60x40 We have the base, electrics and drainage done so it was just for the shed supply and erection.
I would say (that was a couple of years back) that specs have increased since then due to the number of sheds collapsing under the snows/in gales so £13k may not be far off.
Even on an agric holding that qualifies for the most lenient planning you would need to submit an agric building notification to the council, only temporary sheds with no concrete or hardcore base are exempt from any notifications unless you fancy winging it, trouble is something that big is hard to hide :-). 60x40x12 is also just about the limit for the notification process, (it is done on sq metreage so height matters); above that and it does need full PP even on a large holding.
For a larger, higher building like a 60x40 there arent many DIY shortcuts like there are with lower, smaller buildings, the goat shed would be quite possible to DIY but if you want a big span like 60x40, proper floor, electrics and drainage etc you would be looking at 10-15k min unless you can DIY it and dont mind lots of smaller bays with load bearing interim columns to help spread the weight.
If you went for 30x20 instead its a whole different ballgame, you would still need agric notice (or PP if your holding is too small to qualify) unless you go for a moveable temporary building (worth considering?), but it is much much less of an issue structurally in terms of the span and load, so worth considering. It might even be cheaper to DIY build two of them than build one great big 60x40, due to this, if you built in wood.