Connect Sheds
Sheds and garages, built properly.
Garden sheds, kitset garages, farm and implement sheds, sleepouts. Built on a slab that's actually level, with the consent rules sorted — most sizes come with a condition people don't know about.
Roughly what it costs
$8,500 – $16,500 for a shed, delivered and placed
The grid below is the whole shed, built and placed on your prepared site. Delivery from Whangamatā is quoted on distance, which on this peninsula is a good deal shorter than trucking one over from the Waikato. Garages, farm sheds and anything needing a building consent are priced separately.
The 30 m² rule has a catch
Everyone knows you can put up a shed under 30 m² without a consent. Almost nobody knows that from 10 m² up, the same exemption says the work has to be done or supervised by a licensed practitioner, or follow an engineer-reviewed kitset design. A kitset dropped on an unlevel base by whoever had a trailer isn't covered — and it's your problem, not theirs, when it comes up in a sale. We build to the exemption properly.
When a shed needs a consent, and when it doesn't
The thresholds, plainly. We'll tell you which one yours falls into on the first phone call:
- Up to 10 m²: the simplest exemption, fewest conditions
- Over 10 m² and up to 30 m²: no building consent, but the design or construction must be carried out or supervised by an LBP
- Single storey only — floor no more than 1 m above the ground, and no more than 3.5 m from floor to top
- At least 1 m clear of any boundary and any residential building
- No bathroom, toilet or stored drinking water under the 10–30 m² exemption
- Sleeping allowed only alongside a dwelling, with no cooking facilities and with smoke alarms fitted
- Over 30 m², or anything plumbed: full building consent — which we do as well
Your district plan and stormwater rules apply either way, and a sleepout is not a granny flat — that's a different exemption with its own rules. If what you actually want is somewhere for family to live, read the granny flats page instead.
Sizes and prices
Built, delivered and placed. Delivery quoted on distance from Whangamatā.
| Size (m) | Floor | Price | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard — 2.4 m wide | |||
| 3.6 × 2.4 | 8.6 m² | $8,500 | No consent, no conditions |
| 4.2 × 2.4 | 10.1 m² | $9,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 4.8 × 2.4 | 11.5 m² | $10,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 5.4 × 2.4 | 13.0 m² | $11,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 6.0 × 2.4 | 14.4 m² | $12,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 6.6 × 2.4 | 15.8 m² | $13,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| XL — 2.8 m wide | |||
| 3.6 × 2.8 | 10.1 m² | $10,250 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 4.2 × 2.8 | 11.8 m² | $11,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 4.8 × 2.8 | 13.4 m² | $12,750 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 5.4 × 2.8 | 15.1 m² | $14,000 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 6.0 × 2.8 | 16.8 m² | $15,250 | No consent — licensed builder required |
| 6.6 × 2.8 | 18.5 m² | $16,500 | No consent — licensed builder required |
Every size above skips the building consent. But only the smallest sits under 10 m². For all the rest the exemption has a condition most people never hear: the work has to be done or supervised by a licensed practitioner, or follow an engineer-reviewed kitset design. We sort that out as part of the job. Buy the same shed off a shelf and it is yours to sort out.
What's in it
- A straight answer on whether yours needs a consent
- Site levelling and a concrete slab or a prepared base
- Kitset assembly, or a built-on-site shed to your dimensions
- Farm, implement and pole sheds
- Garage doors, windows, personnel doors and guttering
- Power and lighting by a registered electrician
- Lining, insulation and a floor coating if you're working in it
- Consent lodged and seen through when it needs one
- Records of Work where the exemption or the consent requires them
How it goes
- 1
Tell us the size and what it's for
That decides the consent question, the slab and whether a kitset or a built shed is better value. A phone call usually covers it.
- 2
Price
Fixed price covering the slab, the shed and the doors — not a shed price with the groundwork left as a mystery.
- 3
Groundwork
Levelled, boxed, reinforced and poured, with drainage thought about. This is the part that decides whether the doors still shut in five years.
- 4
Build and sign off
Up, sealed, doors hung, power in. Paperwork filed where it's needed, and we leave the site clean.
Questions people ask
Can you just do the slab?
Yes. Plenty of people buy the kit themselves and want the groundwork and assembly done properly. We'll pour to your kit's drawings.
Can I sleep in it?
Under the 10–30 m² exemption, only if it's used alongside the house, has no cooking facilities and has smoke alarms. The moment you want a kitchen or a bathroom in it, it's a different build — probably a granny flat.
Farm sheds?
Yes — implement sheds, pole sheds and hay barns. Some of those have their own exemption pathway with engineering requirements, and we'll tell you which applies.
How long does one take?
A garden shed on a prepared base is a day or two. A kitset garage is two to three weeks including the slab cure. Consented sheds depend on the council.
Do you take away the old one?
Yes, demolition and removal can go in the same quote.
Also from Connect Build
Smaller job, or want a few prices rather than ours? Post it on Connect and vetted local tradies will quote it. Or email admin@connectcoromandel.co.nz.