Reality Check

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Michael

[InterTD6]

You only need a builders licence to build residential structures, if you call the building a office, or farm / machinery / packing shed then no licence is needed, I take it your on acres
regards inter

[funkychicken]

You only need a builders licence to build residential structures, if you call the building a office, or farm / machinery / packing shed then no licence is needed, I take it your on acres
regards inter

umm..acres? We've got nearly 1. We're not in the burbs (thank goodness) but we're not out in the sticks.
I've looked through the owner builder paperwork and I'm pretty sure you need a licence to build anything that's taller than 5ft.

[weisyboy]

im sorry to haev to tell u this but if u have less than 1 acre you are in the suberbs.

in qld you will need a builders licence to build a shed like that. as it will be deamed as liveable

[echnidna]

FC, think about milling your own timber

can you use your bosses lucas in your own time?

or even get an Alaskan CSM and DIY totally.
I know you have been spoilt by a Lucas but it all comes back to money.

[funkychicken]

The maximum discount I could get from milling the timber myself is my wage ($120 a cube). I'll only be cutting about half the timber on the lucas, the rest will be benched.

And I'm not in the burbs

[weisyboy]

hows that?

when i mill for someone the timber costs less than half of buying it.

you are so.

[funkychicken]

The logs, trucks, chainsaws, petrol, diesel, bobcat, lucas mill, etc. aren't mine. The only thing that is mine is the labour

Am not

[weisyboy]

so get some logs and ill come up and mill them

mates rates.

[Calm]

.....................mates rates.

Thats normal plus 20% isnt it?

I agree in the suburbs on a big block.

[weisyboy]

so i calculated

u have 4.8 cube of framing. so u would get it out of 8 cube of logs easily probable less. so it would cost about $1500 to get it cut.

u have 4.5 cube of weatherboards you could get this out of 9 cube of logs easily so would cost about $1700 to cut it.

total for your timber of about $3200 leaving u $6800 to buy logs before you broke even.

you would also have a heap of other sizes left over for making stuff.

just food for thaught.

[funkychicken]

But it's not just about me, I'd rather give the money to my boss because he's a good bloke and if his business dies then I'm out of a job

[weisyboy]

yer so how long will u haev to work for free to pay off the $6000

but if ya got 6 grand lying around

na its your choice mate just not the way id do it.

[echnidna]

me neither , but to each his own likes and dislikes

[funkychicken]

It's only $7818 for the timber from work. How did you work out your price?