Clearspan will provide creative assistance with matters of form, structure and function, yet our experience has taught us that your home's greatest potential lies in its reflection of you.
Your own plans or sketches are welcomed. You are not urged to compromise by accepting anyone else's standards because you have an intuition about yourself and your loved ones which nobody else can ever match.
In one of our designs you might find the beginnings of an idea. We might suggest practical amendments which reduce cost, enhance your concept or take better advantage of site characteristics. However, our ultimate commitment is simple: we want to create a home that is beautiful in your eyes.
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Two storey brick veneer home - steel wall, roof and floor frame.
We try to give you real value for your money. Whichever way you decide to build with Clearspan, you will save money where it counts. We offer three different options when building your home, so you can select the way that's best for you.
1. Build your own home.
One option is to build your own home by ordering a Clearspan all-inclusive Home Building Kit and having it delivered to your building site. We will supply you with a step-by-step manual and plans to guide you in the construction of your home.
2. Organise construction yourself.
Alternatively, you can owner-manage the construction of your home by arranging your own sub-contractors and having them do the hard work for you. You will benefit from Clearspan's professional guidance, as we are happy to show you the right steps in order to make your sub-contracting as easy and successful as possible.
3. Let us do it all for you.
A further option is to have your home contract built to lock-up stage or to completion. Clearspan will assist you all the way.
Our zincalume steel frames and trusses are engineered for strength, and are both corrosion-resistant and termite-proof, thus your Clearspan home is automatically super strong and secure. Insurance companies also offer lower premiums on steel framed homes... yet another plus.
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Steel framed house on a sloping site.
- BUILDING FRAME - MADE FROM BHP AUSTRALIAN STEEL
Prefabricated zincalume steel wall frames 2400 high or as specified, zincalume steel roof trusses and framing, battens and all sundry components to enable complete and total erection of frame. Materials for double storey houses include flooring and flooring components, columns and bracing. Screws and bolts of varying sizes in sufficient quantities to enable total erection. (An illustrated chart showing each fixing and explaining its application is included in the erection manual). Frame hold down bolts, supplied for either concrete slab or elevated floor system.
- ROOFING AND COMPONENTS
Colorbond steel roof sheeting plus all necessary brackets and clips, guttering, fascia, barge cappings and downpipes. Alternatively, if a tiled roof is required, additional roof trusses will be required and the price of the metal roof and accessories deducted.
- WINDOWS AND DOORS
Powdercoated aluminium sliding windows, doors and flyscreens. Pre-hung patterned feature front door and pre-hung hardboard doors to all door openings, wall cupboards and wardrobes.
- EXTERNAL SHEETING, INTERNAL LININGS, MOULDINGS AND SHELVES
Fibre cement planked external cladding in standard finish (if brick veneer is to be used then the cost of plank is deducted). Plasterboard internal linings and cornice plus adhesive and setting compounds for all ceilings and walls (excluding wet areas). 6mm Villaboard fibre cement sheeting plus adhesive for all wet area walls. Versilux 6mm sheeting for lining of eaves, verandah and portico ceilings. Architraves and skirting boards for all windows, doors and walls. Square dressed shelving supports for all robes and cupboards. Melamine coated particleboard shelf to each built-in robe and multiple shelving to linen cupboards.
- HARDWARE
Locks, latches and privacy sets for all internal and external doors. Chrome hanging rail and supports for wardrobe shelf. Knobs, handles and catches for wardrobes and linen cupboards. Door stops for all swing doors.
- ERECTION MANUAL, PLANS, SIGNS A comprehensive, well illustrated erection manual. Four full sets of computer drawn plans suitable for submission to your local authority. Owner-builder’s “on-site” building sign as required by the Building Services Authority. Erection drawings, showing numbered sections, which match with components supplied. (The drawings are clearly illustrated to ensure trouble free erection).
- FLOORS: CONCRETE SLAB OR TIMBER FLOOR
Which is best for you? If you intend to build on a sloping allotment or if the soil type indicates the need for a more substantial slab construction then a timber on steel floor system may be the answer. When you excavate a sloping site for slab on ground construction, you face the additional expense of retaining walls. All of this is avoided with a timber on steel floor system. In this instance, excavation is not necessary. Clearspan research has produced a very simple and cost effective floor system that produces great savings over conventional steel framed floor systems. The system is unique to us, and we will be pleased to explain it to you.
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Steel framed home - Colorbond roof.
- Plans: With our assistance, create your own layout (which we will draft) or choose and enhance plans from our library of floor plans and finishes. Then your kit will be costed.
- Complete Costing: Select and cost P.C. items. Decide your degree of physical project involvement and secure quotes from the trades people you will require.
- Council Approval: Arrange a soil test and submit plans for council approval and apply for an owner-builder's permit (if applicable). Schedule construction and pre-plan the order of procedures.
- Progressiveness:Throughout the past twenty years, the Clearspan network has been developing and enhancing a steel-framed building system which offers the new home buyer enormous benefits in terms of value, quality, strength, durability and freedom of design.
- Practicality: Each advance has been engineered so that on-site construction becomes simpler, faster, more accurate and more cost-effective, so that while the product has gained enormous sophistication, it has also become increasingly "user-friendly".
- Safety: Our homes are immensely strong. While the "standard" Clearspan rating is for windspeeds up to 150kph, it is relatively inexpensive to engineer for far more torrid conditions. Termites and insects cannot attach and weaken the steel frame, which is also fire, earthquake and heavily corrosion resistant - and a safer earth in the event of electrical malfunction or lightning strike.
- Appeal: The benefits of the Clearspan Building System apply to the total range of housing, virtually irrespective of site, style, size and layout - whether owner-built, owner managed, or erected by a licensed contractor. Already thousands of vastly different Clearspan homes have been supplied to all kinds of Australians. The system offers universal appeal.
- Reward: Our prices and products are not disguised in any way or loaded by compulsory "inclusions". It is clear from the outset exactly what you are buying and at what cost. And from the moment of delivery, Clearspan clients achieve total control of how every dollar is expended - when and where - and whether work completed by others is acceptable. The ultimate reward is a high quality, unique home and exceptional value for money.
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Concrete wall with a steel Colorbond roof.
Completely locally owned and manufactured,
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