Recent content by Baker1983

Hi. Yes I am. That’s interesting. Haven’t heard that before.

I had thought this and this would be the easiest way, however the reason for not going down this route is because I’m using box profile steel sheets down the side and thought it would be much easier to cut the wood to an angle / use firring strips than having to cut the steel sheets at an angle.

Part 2 – Virtual Build Firstly, thank you to everyone for your advice and support. Apologies if I haven’t directly responded to each one of your messages, however they are all very useful and very welcome. Before continuing with the physical build, I thought I would confirm some of the build...

Hi Inspector. Thanks for the quick reply. After digging through the top soil, the rest was almost entirely clay and quite soft, which has got me worried. When I had an extension on my house, the building officer required is to dig down 2 metres.

Thanks for the quick response. I did go down a fair way, typically between 80-100cm. Beyond the top soil, it was clay all the way down. Quite soft clay at that. When I had my extension built, the building officer required 2m deep foundations, so that’s what I’ve been thinking about. As you say...

Update Hi Everyone. Have been giving more thought to the base I’ve constructed and after a quick calculation of the overall weight; base, walls, cladding, doors and roof, etc. I’m concerned my pier foundations with the timber frame sat on top may not be suitable. I may be over thinking it...

@Hornbeam Really insightful post thanks. I’m thinking of using a single skin metal box profile as my cladding to the rear and sides of my garden room. The build up of the walls will be fairly standard; frame, OSB, breather membrane, battens and then metal profile cladding. I have a question...

Thanks for the reply Martin. I did really enjoy the mega build / post! I could read posts like that all day long. Thinking about this a bit more, I think you’re absolutely right. The Building Regulations set out the requirement. There are many ways to achieve that requirement and this gives the...

Hi Brian. That’s crazy. This is the thing, there seems to be such a varied opinion. A friend of mine was told he would have to build using block work to meet the requirement, however I don’t think he put forward any other options for them to consider, so as Martin said above, I think it’s...

Hi Martin. Yes it does. I really liked what you did with your build and really enjoyed the process. I know this particular topic gets discussed a lot. I think in part as there’s no real guidance in the building regs as to what constitutes ‘substantially non-combustible materials’. For example...

I hadn’t really given it much thought about the naming of the space, so guess I got lucky calling it a garden room. To be honest though, it probably will be used as a garden room the majority of the time and if I do use it for any wood working projects, the neighbours will probably be happy that...

Thanks. That’s interesting regarding the planning permission and what you call the space. With the floor. I’ve already laid the chipboard over the frame and think it’ll be a hard job getting it back up again. I have rigid insulation between the joists and all the joiners and tops of the timber...

I tend to use workshop / garden room depending on who I’m talking to. Do you think it would have made a difference to the planning permission calling it a workshop? My plan for power is to run up through the side wall. I didn’t show this level of detail on the plans, but it’s something I do need...

Part 1 Having followed this forum for a while now and gained some really useful knowledge along the way, I thought it only fair to share my workshop build with others. I’ll be documenting the build as I go with photos and drawings, hopefully to help others and also to receive constructive...