Professional Choice Sheds supplies a premium range of carports, garages and sheds of all shapes and sizes for Townsville and FNQ steel sheds. The sheds supplied by Professional Choice are made locally and designed by one of Australia’s most experienced engineers. Your certification will be supplied by Edge Consulting, one of the most reputable consulting engineers in Australia and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Professional Choice can supply carports, sheds and warehouses for your garden, business or farm. Whether its rural or in town, storage sheds, light industrial buildings, covered outdoor learning areas, machinery sheds or barn. Cyclonic grade sheds can be made locally made and supplied as far south as Mackay and to the far north coast and Northern territory. Customers living further south will be supplied from Rockhampton.

 Why is it important to know who is certifying your project?

You should be very comfortable receiving your certification from Edge Consulting, the largest consulting engineering company in the southern hemisphere. You can sleep at night in the knowledge that your shed is built to cover all the Australian Standards for a Cyclonic region.

It is more common than most would like to think to have a shed ‘certified’ by an engineer working on their one-man operation from a home office. The only real concern here is to get paid for the ‘certification’ from one of the large, shed suppliers. Even more common is to get your certification from an ‘in-house’ engineer. Their concern is simply to assist the boss to make more money on their products, it is not to protect you and your family from a product that is likely to be damaged after its first cyclone.

A Shed truly suitable for Cyclonic weather conditions - Townsville and FNQ Steel Sheds

When you are buying a new shed or carport in Townsville or anywhere in Far North Queensland, it should be easy to check your quotes to make sure you are getting what you think you are paying for. No shed should ever be damaged by a Cyclone if it has been truly built to Australian Standards. Some of the main points you should pay attention to are: - 

• Rafter Deflection
• Purlin Deflection
• Terrain Class
• Severity
• Lateral Bracing

 EVERY QUOTE YOU RECEIVE should state what these are AND have a comparison to the Australian Standard for your area.

A great tool to use to compare your quotes is the Shed Test. This is an independent Australian site that allows you to add a few figures to see if what you are buying is truly compliant.

Some quick and simple ‘tests’ Steel Sheds

Probably the easiest ‘test’ is simply to look at the mass (weight) of each shed you have been quoted. There is a massive difference in strength between imported mild steel and Australian High Tensile steel. If Australian high tensile steel is being used and there is enough of it to meet Australian Standards, then the shed will easily be 30%-40% more mass than a non-complying cheaper shed often supplied by some of Australia’s largest shed supplier.

The Chart in the photograph above provided on the Professional Choice website is also helpful.

Townsville and FNQ Steel Sheds – The best available

At Professional Choice Sheds we have no “standard shed designs” and every carport and shed is custom-designed, site-specific, for your project. This means that nothing is “customizable” because every product supplied is designed specifically to your need and for your site. Your new patio shed, garage or carport will be one of a kind and made exactly to your needs. 

All products used by Professional Choice Sheds are 100% Australian steel components ensuring a long-life steel building or structure. All our sheds, garages, carports, barns and farm buildings are certified by Edge Consulting, as stated above, the largest consulting engineers in the southern hemisphere. You can have full confidence in them.

Be careful of “Shed Safe” certification. This group was set up by many of the businesses responsible for the devastation caused on class 10A buildings, (sheds and carports), in 2006 after the devastation of Cyclone Larry. In this writer’s opinion, this was akin to putting the fox in charge of the hen coup. Check out any quote that claims to be “Shed Safe approved”. For the more technical-minded, you can find the official guidelines here.

Professional Choice Sheds software for Townsville and FNQ

Your proposal will be generated by the most up-to-date, state-of-the-art software. This gives you an accurate and fast proposal and quote. Your quote will be inclusive of the delivery cost from Townsville. Professional Choice Sheds can arrange delivery to almost anywhere within Australia through an extensive network of local centres.

The final certification will be accompanied by a Bill of materials, Construction drawings and connection details with a Q-Reader code. This means that if you do have a problem, all you have to do is scan the code to take you to a YouTube Video to assist you with the joint. For added information, we will also supply you with the production drawings for your shed or carport.

Townsville and FNQ Steel Sheds

The best quality and easiest installed carports, sheds and barns in Townsville and FNQ that you can really depend on. Contact Professional Choice Sheds today.