Experience IS the difference !
Same Day Granny Flats is a nationwide business with decades of experience delivering quality, relocatable homes. Originally conceived in Sweden and adapted by our designers to suit Australian conditions our units are fabricated to our own exacting specifications by our exclusive overseas manufacturing partners.
As a Nationwide Group, we deliver over 100 units per month ensuring reliability of supply and short or no lead times.
BEWARE POOR IMITATIONS; Cold room (EPS) panel roofs with strips of adhesive tape to ensure sealing / waterproofing ?Our units are fabricated with 5mm single sheets of fibreglass covering the cold room panelling – no joins, no leaks and offers greatly enhanced impact protection. Premium series units use 75mm EPS panelling - offering improved strength and insulating efficiency.Marine ply flooring, plastic window frames, single glazed windows ?Our units are built with 18mm cement sheeting floors - means no white ants, no waterlogging, rotting or warping. All windows are double glazed and fly screened with aluminium frames.
AVOID INEXPERIENCE AND INAPPROPRIATE INSTALLATION ADVICE;Expensive unnecessary concrete slabs ? Always install units elevated (inexpensive/simple stumps or trailer). Allows airflow / cooling, avoids vermin infestation and most importantly, provides access to services (plumbing). Experience has taught us that if simple maintenance is required, or customers want to run cabling or other services under their units – it’s impossible if installed directly on a slab.
DEPENDABLE SUPPORT AND BACKUP
We maintain substantial stocks of spares at our depots nationwide and our 1-300 National Priority ‘Hotline’ is available 7 days per week giving our customers peace of mind that expert help and advice is always on hand if required.
NATIONWIDE DELIVERY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
While we deliver nationwide, a unit never goes direct from the port of arrival to a customer without first undergoing a thorough pre-delivery QA inspection at the nearest SDGF warehouse facility.
With our founder’s involvement in the industry dating back over 30 years, Same Day Granny Flats has earned its place as the market leader by investing in its relationships and supply chain over many years working with our own ‘in country’ production management teams to ensure quality, compliance, and consistency.
With a proven track record established long before the current housing affordability crisis emerged, Same Day Granny Flats has developed from industry pioneer to now being the largest supplier of relocatable homes in the southern hemisphere with thousands of happy and satisfied customers.
Well Insulated
Our Standard range of Expanders and our Studio model are constructed using 50mm cool room paneling (Expanded Polystyrene or EPS) for the walls and roof. Our Premium Expanders are constructed with 75mm EPS for the walls and roof.
This ensures that your new Same Day Granny Flat is well insulated and can handle the rugged Australian climate.
We manufacture our own cool room paneling which means we can provide a better price and can have better quality control measures in place.
EPS panels are a well known and proven to be one of the best insulation materials you can buy at an affordable price. This means that your Same Day Granny Flat will stay cool in summer and warm in winter. The general rule of thumb is that a 50mm EPS has an R value of about R2.5 to R5.
Fibreglass Roof
Unfortunately due to the way that the PU Panels lock together, water can penetrate the joins.
To combat this issue, we would apply butyl waterproof tape to the joins on the roof. Butyl tape is great, if installed correctly, although in cold weather it can go hard, also excess water, UV and certain climates can also loosen the adhesiveness of the tape. This isn't great for the weather conditions Australia has.
We had produce with a solution to fix this issue.
Same Day Granny Flats now places a 3mm steel sheet over the main pod roof. This steel sheet is in two pieces and has a gentle slope for water run off. The two side roofs have a full one-piece fibreglass sheet. The steel and fibreglass also help to protect the EPS panels from falling branches and helps to reflect heat off the cabin.
Z Flashings
Another crucial component of a Same Day Granny Flat is the Z flashings we have implemented.
When you lift the two side roofs up, there is a step in the roof and in certain weather conditions, water can blow back through the rubber seal. We have specially designed Z flashings that sit over the rubber seal and offer another level of water proofing.
In the early days, all our external walls were hinged, this was great in the fact that it allowed for a faster and easier set up,
however the only way to seal the bottom of the walls was to install a rubber seal. Again, in certain weather conditions, especially if the seal wasn't installed correctly, water would leak back into the cabin. We designed a way to incorporate a Z flashing to go along the bottom of all the walls.
Magnesium Oxide (MgO) Flooring
To help reduce the weight of our caravans and to keep manufacturing cost down, our floors were 19mm marine ply.
The quality of marine ply these days isn't the best. Over time marine ply can delaminate, especially with all the flooding we have had over the last few years. Other concerns of using marine ply is that it is not fireproof and is also susceptible to wood rot and damaged caused by rodents.
Now all Same Day Granny Flats come with Magnesium Oxide (MgO) board flooring.
MgO flooring is an environmentally friendly and sustainable building material that is light weight, semi-flexible, impact resistant and can be fully recycled. The advantages of using Mgo board is that is is water-resistant, highly resistant to flames (non-flammable) and has a natural mould/mildew resistance. MgO boards also maintain all their structural and dimensionally characteristics when wet.
Full aluminium window frames
All the window frames and sliding door frames in a Same Day Granny Flat are manufactured using 100% alumiunium.
Plastic does offer some level of UV resistance, however over time the plastic will become brittle and crack. This isn't the best choice for an item you will use daily.
Aluminium floor strips
All of our expander cabins come with aluminium floor strips, colour matched to the flooring in your cabin.
powdercoated Steel trims - Premium
All of our corner trims, in our Premium Expander, are powder coated steel angles. This gives the cabin a cleaner finish.
Window surround - Premium
The aluminium trim around the window frames are powder coated white to blend in with the window frame.
Bathroom wall lining - Premium
All of our premium cabins have a PVC marble look wall lining.