How to Ensure a Successful Building Installation

Thank you for your purchase of a new Salt Spray Sheds Accessory Building. By following the suggestions below, you can ensure a successful sheds installation. If you follow the steps listed below, it assures a building date with NO SURPRISES and no extra expenses.

Review Your Estimate

• Please check your estimate carefully to be certain that it lists what you've ordered. If you want to make changes or have questions, please call our office, 508-398-1900 or email us at saltsprayshedsinc@comcast.net
  
  

Building Dates

• We understand things happen and you may need to postpone or cancel your delivery date. If we can change replace your build date with another build date, we will. However, a $100.00 rescheduling fee may apply if we are notified less than five (7) days in advance.
• Additionally, on your building date, if the building site is not properly prepared, a $100.00 rescheduling fee will be added to your final balance.
• Salt Spray Sheds reserves the right to reschedule due to unanticipated circumstances including but not limited to the weather.
  • A note about inclement weather: New England weather can be quite finicky and for that reason, we may have to make an adjustment to your scheduled building dates depending on the severity of inclement weather. We will do our best to honor your building date, however, we must keep the building team safe and out of harm's way during rain, snow, high winds, or excessive heat and cold. We appreciate your understanding and commitment to the safety of our staff.
  • A note about materials shortages:  Due to the ongoing materials shortage as a result of the pandemic, we do not control how manufacturers produce materials. Items such as cedar shingles, roof shingles, and other materials have experienced on-going delays. 
    
    

Final Payments

• The final balance is due the day your shed is completed.
  • If you will not be on-site, we will gladly send electronic photos either via email or smart phone.
• If you’ve paid by credit card, we will charge that card within 24 hours. You can also pay by check.
• We gladly accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express & Discover, cash and personal checks.

Zoning and Permits

• In Massachusetts, all accessory structures under 200 square feet are exempt from permitting. However, all towns have zoning registration forms that are required prior to building.
• It is the client's responsibility to arrange for all permits and approvals from all the local regulatory agencies and boards as well as to meet local "setback" requirements.
• We build the shed to your specifications only and cannot be held responsible for delays due to any local regulations not being met.
• We will not be responsible for relocation or any structural changes after we begin to build.
• Salt Spray Sheds can process your paperwork, for a fee, and are always available to answer questions regarding the permitting process.
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Shed Site Location
Ground Services

• Ground surfaces may look level with natural vegetation but may leave a building looking unstable or inaccessible from an access ramp due to elevation problems.
  • To ensure an attractive and highly usable building, ensuring that the foundation is as level as possible is important. The area should be clear & level.
  • Options: If you are unsure if the location is appropriate, please call our office, 508-398-1900, to set up a free site inspection prior to your building date.
  • We often recommend hiring a contractor to grade the area. We'd be happy to refer you to one of our vendors.

Building Locations

• Salt Spray Sheds crew needs a two (2) to three (3) foot perimeter, at minimum, to build.
• Trees, overhanging limbs, stumps, fences within the 3-foot work area around your new shed are all obstructions and hazards while working on your new shed. Please ensure that they are not present when we arrive at the site.
• We will use the solid concrete block as the foundation of your building. (Only for building sizes under 20' long). For additional foundation options, visit our foundation page.
  • Options: You can install a stone base of ¾” Native Stone prior to your building date. If you would prefer, Salt Spray Sheds can install the base for you prior to your building date. A charge will apply.
  • Note: If your property is in a conservation area or designated high wind, those department may require the building be secured with sonotubes. Please check with the town prior to building.
• Our delivery trucks are 8 feet wide and 12 feet tall in order to carry all the lumber needed for your new accessory building including our tools. Our workers will carry your shed materials and their tools up to 25 feet as part of our standard pricing.
• Any distance beyond 50ft from where the truck can park and where the shed is to be erected is subject to an extra distance charge. If that distance is over 50ft, please specify at the time of the quotation so we can include it in our price and our estimate of the time required for that extra effort.
• ​If your shed location requires stair climbing, excessive steep terrain or other obstacles such as patios that will impeded us from getting your materials to the shed site in a timely manner, a carry charge will apply,

On Your Building Day

• It may be helpful to visual the size, by using stakes, flags, rocks, or lumber to layout the size in your chosen location.
• If you choose to adjust your shed after we have started building, there will be a charge. Exceptions cannot be made.
• Existing Shed Demolition: If we are an removing an existing shed on your property, it must be free from debris, empty and disconnected from its power source. The Salt Spray Building Team cannot disconnect power.
• Spectators, Children and Pets - We believe in safety first and curiosity may be a hazard. Our nail-guns occasionally fire strays and we want to make sure your family and pets are always safe . In order for us to focus on constructing your shed safely, we must ask that you, your children and pets are kept a safe distance away until the time that we "turn the keys over to you."
• If we arrive on your scheduled building date, and the site requires landscaping, clearing, sonotubes, or other preparation that prevents building, we will reschedule the building dats and a $100 charge will apply. Our building team is not equipped or prepared to landscape, clear brush, remove fence, or complete yardscape to access the building site.
  
  Furthermore, we will schedule you on the next available building dates. We will not be able to adjust our schedule and move other buildings to accommodate a new date. If your building estimate included travel or overnight fees, they will be applied again. 

Access to Electrical Power

• We use a 14-amp compressor plus a 14-amp Skill-Saw and need an outlet able to supply such power and be no more than 100 ft. away. If the outlet is over a 100ft away, please inform us in advance, so we can bring extra heavy-duty extension cords.
• Someone must be available, in person or by phone, in the event the circuit breaker trips during the building time. Please make arrangement with us or a neighbor if you will not be available during the scheduled building time.
• There will be a generator fee of $75 if one is needed at your site.

Landscaping Your New Shed

• You can create new planting around your shed to match your existing landscape.
• If you did not put down a bed of stone, you can add one after the shed is constructed by building a box 2' around the building and filling it with stone.
• We encourage you to not pile dirt or mulch very close to bottom of the siding.
• Stuck for an idea? Download our landscape design options

Thank you for taking time to review these guidelines to insure a successful installation. We find both professional and personal satisfaction in installing back-yard structures for our clients who appreciate the intense and concentrated effort required to install a complete shed in less than a day, on a previously unfamiliar site.