Garages and Sheds Burnie

Tassie Sheds builds custom steel sheds, garages, farm sheds and barns for the whole North-West coast, from Somerset and Wynyard through Burnie, Penguin and Ulverstone. Your building is made in Tasmania, not shipped across from the mainland, then delivered along the coast to your property.

Building on the coast is a different job to building inland, and it is worth being honest about why. Bass Strait carries salt a long way onshore, and salt is what shifts a steel building from decades of service to early corrosion if the wrong product goes on. For coastal and near-coastal blocks around Burnie we recommend COLORBOND® Ultra, which is made for marine and industrial environments, so the cladding is matched to where you actually live rather than to a general spec. It is a small decision at quote stage that makes a big difference over the life of the shed.

A good value shed is not always about price. Two quotes for the same size building can differ by thousands, and on the coast the gap often sits in exactly this: whether the cladding is rated for salt, how the building is engineered for exposed wind, and whether the steel is genuine Australian BlueScope or a cheaper import. We are happy to show you where a quote can come down, and where a little more, like stepping up to Ultra, is money well spent. Call the team on (03) 6165 0204 to talk it through.

Materials and Finishes for the Coast

Our garages, sheds and workshops are made from high-tensile Australian BlueScope GALVASPAN® steel and clad in your choice of COLORBOND® or ZINCALUME® on the walls and roof. On the coast, product choice matters: COLORBOND® Ultra for exposed marine blocks, standard COLORBOND® across 22 colours where you want the finish to match the house or the fences, and ZINCALUME® as the cheaper option when you want the strength without the colour. Choose a deep-pan five-rib or the traditional corrugated profile, and mix in a motorised roller door, personal access doors, windows, skylight sheeting, whirlybird ventilation or insulation wherever the building needs them.

Garages Burnie

A steel garage keeps the car, the tools and the gear out of the coastal weather and out of sight. Start with a single, double or triple bay, then adjust the height, span and length in increments as fine as 1mm so it fits your driveway and block rather than a catalogue size. Every garage is pre-engineered and ShedSafe accredited, with roller doors to suit, and you can add internal dividing walls, a garaport or a lean-to for extra covered space. On exposed blocks we spec the cladding and the wind engineering to the site, so the garage is built for where it stands.

Workshops Burnie

If you want a dry, secure place to work year-round, we tailor workshop sheds around what happens inside them, from a mechanical bay to a woodworking room to storage for a coastal business. Open bays and enclosed, lockable areas can sit in the one building, with internal walls, roller doors, personal access doors, skylights, ventilation and insulation worked in as needed. Every workshop is pre-engineered, ShedSafe accredited and built in BlueScope steel with GALVASPAN® members, so it carries genuine BlueScope steel warranties. We supply in kit form for the owner-builder and can point you to installers and concreters we work with across the North-West.

Farm Sheds Burnie

The dairy country and cropping land behind the coast, up around Ridgley and across the hinterland, needs farm buildings that protect real value: machinery, hay, produce and livestock. We design farm sheds engineered to Australian Standards in 100% Australian BlueScope steel, with spans reaching up to 25 metres and heights up to 8 metres. Open gable-end sheds give you a lot of covered storage, with one, two or three walls enclosed to suit the prevailing weather off the coast, and extended header sheets for extra protection. Open-front machinery sheds let you nominate the number and width of bays, even uneven, with a skillion or gable roof. The whole range is ShedSafe accredited and customisable around how you work the property.

Barns Burnie

Barns are among the most flexible buildings we make, which is why they suit so many North-West blocks. Our barns store machinery, house vehicles, convert into a workshop, shelter horses or become a shed home, sometimes several of those at once. We build American-style barns, with a 20° centre pitch and attached lean-tos at 10° as standard, and Aussie-style barns whose awnings come off at eave height for a cleaner line. The centre and the awnings can each be different sizes and enclosed or open, and you can add up to three roller doors front and back, personal access doors, a mezzanine or ventilation. Finish with a gable or skillion roof in the full COLORBOND® range, or Ultra on coastal sites.

Horse Stables and Equestrian Arenas Burnie

For the acreages around the coast and up into the hills, we build BlueScope steel stables, shelters and covered arenas. Stables and equine sheds are a cost-effective way to house and shelter your animals: height, span and width are tailored, bays can be added and enclosed, and you can fit internal walls, tack rooms, split doors and extended areas so the horses can move. A covered arena gives horse and rider year-round shelter from coastal wind and winter rain, sized to your property, with walls enclosed where you need a windbreak.

Industrial and Commercial Sheds Burnie

For North-West businesses we supply cold-formed steel portal-frame industrial and commercial buildings, custom designed and engineered, from small factory units and workshops to warehouses, offices and larger commercial buildings. The framing uses 450+ MPa steel coil in the major members, allowing lengths beyond 100 metres, heights up to 8 metres and clear spans up to 25 metres, for column-free floor space you can work in. All major components are Australian BlueScope steel, clad in ZINCALUME® or COLORBOND®, with Ultra available for exposed coastal and industrial sites near the water.

Shed Homes Burnie

Our range can be built as Class 1a liveable buildings for extra living space or a full home, supplied in kit form for the owner-builder. Shed homes suit the coastal and country blocks of the North-West, and they are cost-effective because you choose your own doors, windows, fixtures and fittings. On coastal sites we spec the external cladding for salt exposure, so the home is built for the location from the outside in.

Carports Burnie

Keep the car, boat, caravan or trailer out of the salt air with a steel carport clad in COLORBOND® on SHS posts, bolted to a slab or set straight into concrete piers for a stronger carport at a lower price. Pick a skillion or gable roof, whether it stands alone or covers an outdoor area beside the house.

Building on the North-West Coast

Whether your shed needs council approval depends on its size, where it sits on the block and your council's planning scheme, so the first step is knowing which category the building falls into.

Council approval around Burnie

Burnie sits under Burnie City Council, with Waratah-Wynyard to the west and Central Coast to the east covering much of the surrounding coast. As a general guide, a shed of 36 square metres or under is often exempt from a building permit, while anything larger usually needs both building and planning permits, though some farm sheds carry their own exemptions. Thresholds and setbacks differ between councils and zones, so the honest advice is always to check with your council or a building surveyor early. Every Tassie Sheds building comes with signed engineered plans and Form 35 prepared for your local council, so once you know the category you have the documentation your surveyor needs, and our free CBOS Shed Building Cheat Sheet explains the categories in plain English.

Salt, wind and site-specific engineering

Two things shape a shed on the North-West coast: salt and wind. Salt is handled at the cladding: COLORBOND® Ultra for exposed marine blocks, standard COLORBOND® or ZINCALUME® further back from the water. Wind is handled in the engineering. Tasmania sits in wind Region A (non-cyclonic), but the exact design wind speed depends on the terrain and topography of your block, and an exposed coastal site catching the southerly off Bass Strait attracts a higher classification than a sheltered block in Upper Burnie. Because we are ShedSafe accredited, we engineer each building to the wind, and where relevant the loading, of its actual location, rather than to a generic rating.

Areas we serve and delivery

We build and deliver free right across the North-West coast, including Burnie, Somerset, Ridgley, Penguin, Upper Burnie, Ulverstone and out toward Stanley and Smithton. Just around the coast is Wynyard, which has its own page: see Sheds & Garages Wynyard for that area. Free delivery covers this coastal run, so there is no delivery charge to add to your Burnie quote. The area we cannot service on free delivery begins south of Smithton and Waratah, down toward Strahan and the Central Highlands. If your block is toward that edge, call us first and we will confirm what applies before you order.

Why Choose Tassie Sheds in Burnie

• Built for the coast. COLORBOND® Ultra and site-specific engineering for salt and wind exposure on North-West blocks.
• Made in Tasmania. Manufactured in our Tasmanian factories, not shipped in from the mainland.
• ShedSafe accredited. Engineering independently reviewed against the National Construction Code.
• BlueScope steel. Built from 100% Australian BlueScope steel, backed by BlueScope's steel warranty.
• Customisable to the millimetre. Height, width, length, colour and style all adjust, down to 1mm increments.
• The full COLORBOND® range. 22 standard colours, plus ZINCALUME® as a cheaper option and Ultra for the coast.