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It seems we might have decided on colour. We like the appeal of a stain rather than a paint but the medium oak appears a little too orange for our liking (I say this as a man with a ginger wife!) so after seeing this in the mahogany bedec we're probably going in that direction. Brewers want £250...

Ah ha! In that case I can save myself considerable ballache!

For additional reference my 30sqm is knocking on for £6500 out of my pocket, plus probably another £1000 in other bits paid for by others. Nigh on £2000 of that plus digging went into the 200mm reinforced slab though. Yay clay.

Thanks Mike. I appreciate the extra photos! As suspected the barge comes down over the wall detail so I'll probably chuck another strip of this up there over the 2x2 to then fix the barge to later. No rush at least as its not stopping anything else from proceeding. Well I'm done for the day...

I have done the same mike. There are 3 small boards pinned up and my measurement is taken from there, so the bottom boards with the wedge will stick out. Am I taking the 25x65 corner boards all the way to the underside of the roof? I'll note that if I do that it overlaps the 50x50 that's also...

That's the other gable battened out. My workshop currently looks like a Tron tribute. I then spent some time sorting these corner details out. Making sure I had the battens in the right place, 25x100 in the right place and 25x65 in the right place, as per Mikes drawing. I secured a bit of...

I'd like to invite folks to post pics (more is always better) of the exterior of their workshops. I'd like to create a single repository for people to get ideas from for claddings, colours, etc. I'm finding it hard to pinpoint the colour I'd like for my own wall cladding and would love to have...

That photo with your phone looks fine to me mate, just go with that! Thanks for the offer on the paint, but I'll just buy some and get it done. Even testing a patch is never the same as looking at a 14sqm wall! In other news, the new ridge tiles have arrived. I initially thought they'd sent...

Swifty if you could it would be great, you might have to have 3 posts or something to be allowed to post pics. I can't remember. Glad my ramblings have been useful for you! I'm at the point where I could kind of do the roof or the walls but can't do either until I've picked a colour. There are...

A bunch more battening done, just the other gable end to finish now. I spent a fair while working out which bits of the gable to do in which order and which bits if any were going to be visible or not. EG, the 50x50 along the underside of the roof battens mustn't stick out beyond the fascia...

Great thanks. I can start battening the gables now!

Mike, another question. from what I can see on your build and Phils, battens were put along the top edge of the face of the gable rafters, I assume to give the board something to rest on. As seen here and later in the build In this drawing you did for me there is no batten, just a 2x2 upon...

I refer the honourable gentleman to exhibit a http://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/viewtopi ... 4103#p4103 Nice to know it's not specifically essential. Honestly I'm not sure on colour and can;t really clad it until I am. Not even sure if I want to fit fascias unpainted as I'll have to do them...

I might be heading in a light grey with white trim kind of direction. I've literally done nothing on the workshop today yet. Ohh now for some ambiguity. When you say all around, do you mean both faces and all edges, or just the face you see? Only while trying to decide on a colour I was...

Ok thanks, It'll deffo have to be a 20l tin then. It would be nice if Bedec actually had more photos of buildings with the various colours on.

Thanks for that Richard! It's probably a little darker than I was expecting so I'll keep thinking. I wonder why its not lasted as well on the planed timber.

Did you paint both sides of your featheredge with the mist coat before fitting or just the visible parts and then a second coat when fitted? I figured with the better part of 50m2 to cover it might be best to just bite the bullet and buy the big tin. Tho at that price you want to get the colour...

Holy carp I've just seen the cost of Bedec (homer)

Hmm thanks Phil. I'll see what turns up Friday and get on to Cembrit if its the same issue. It's no major issue if I have to make a change. I have to say the Marley documentation is way better than that offered by Cembrit. Won't start till a fascia is up. I have one bit here and more arriving...

Yeah I'm firm on using bedec, just wondering how the "medium oak" one will look on treated wood.