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My current build has to meet the ‘predominantly non combustable’ ruling. Here, In the West Country, I have timber frame, Fibre cement Plank cladding externally and had to incorporate fireline plasterboard inside with fireproof rockwool insulation. This met with their criteria. Each authority is...

A gentle half day today finishing the flooring and a general tidy up ready for the next part, the framing and hanging of the middle door, insulation of the loft space and frame a loft hatch opening.

Looking great. A fantastic week’s progress.

Nice to have the materials on site ready. I haven’t the room or permission to store all The goods waiting, so have to order on the fly as I go and hope I’ve got the lead times right. That 200x50 looks bendier than a bendy thing. I found it surprisingly difficult getting everything absolutely...

A plodding day, too hot to move too quickly. Figured out the island workbench will go in one of three places, so I’ve set two electric cables into the insulation of which at least one will be in the correct position to instal a floor socket to power the workbench sockets. I may just put a...

The ceiling option is exactly what I am doing in my new purpose built workshop. Min 200mm insulation, vapour control membrane on the room side of joists and then plasterboard with access hatch to loft space. Your option one floor will work, it again exactly what I’m using, 50mm celotex, 22mm...

Thanks, that’s now the plan, keep the dirty stuff out back separate. I mocked it up and it will work fine.

A fantastic start to the project, better than you could have anticipated with the machinery around to do the donkey work. :D Got to ask, why didn’t you move the whole lot 2 or three yards to the right, away from the access track? Sure there’s a good reason.

Yes, that’s why I think I’ll let two cable sets in and leave one redundant if not required. Hmm, I can’t make the front door until I get the workshop operational. I want to put an outward opening stable door on, solid bottom, two or four glazed panels at the top. I did fleetingly think French...

More progress, back door fully sealed and finished, insulation laid on the floor, joints taped and edges foam filled. Will trim off excess foam tomorrow ready to lay the floorboards over the weekend. For the first time, I have gone with gun grade foam instead of the squirty hand held can...

Haven’t got the wrapper any more, it’s not written on it, just the overlap markings. It really is superb membrane.

Order just place for 38 sheets of plasterboard and roof insulation hopefully here for mid week. Got to keep thinking ahead with the JIT system.

Large windows are probably nice, but that’s a whole lot of real estate of wall lost. The ground hole Looks massive, a wheelbarrow would have been depressing carting all the aggregate across, one barrow, tip, no impression whatsoever, a couple of hundred times :( good old Richard. =D>

I think that is the way to go. I cleared all the tools, the temporary 8x4 workbench, mitre saw and ladders out the space today in readiness for laying the floor tomorrow. The space is HUGE, and then the separate room. The extractor is the Jet 1100a, a 6’ high HVLP chip extractor which will...

For the cost, I’ll put on a layer of 600 or whatever they have locally N the top of the PIR. The slip for movement seems sensible, the insulation won’t be going anywhere as I’ll be foaming the perimeter to seal the edges and taping the joins.

Now that is a separation I hadn’t considered. In the last workshop, the grinding, and welding was done in one corner, but was as you say a really dirty corner which was beginning to spread. I was also very conscious of never to weld after any woodwork for fear of dust explosion. I’ll be looking...

No problem, I didn’t buy it today, so will carry on without it. I have a dilemma with the internals of my build. I had always planned to have the extra section at the back a separate room for dust extractor, compressor and sink. Indeed it was going to be built as an addition to the workshop...

Like a five year old waiting for Santa :D “Is he here yet?”

In your diagram, you have a polythene liner under the celotex, is that not required? What gauge would I use for vapour barrier for the ceiling before boarding?

Yes, a full sheet of 1200 DPM under the whole lot.