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It does seem to make a lot of sense, but why don’t commercial roofers seem to like it? Perhaps they like coming back to re-do felt roofs every 5 years?

I wondered that too, thanks, I'll lose one.

Right, didn't want an apex roof anyway, didn't lose much height. Any comments on stud layout before I go on? Family for scale: Centre lines represent 8' x 4' sheets, hence the slightly odd stud spacing with some needed to overlap the sheets. No idea what I'm doing, if you haven't noticed...

Rats, you’re right, I don’t know how I missed that. Ah well, pent it is, and lower again as I’d had the eaves at 2.5m. Or planning I suppose, another setback.

From what I can gather you get 2.5m to the eaves with either design, but the max height can be up to 4m, the apex is 3.3m

I'm leaning towards an apex roof now. What do you vote for? It feels a bit narrow but I do like the idea of somewhere to chuck long pieces of material. No idea how to build an apex roof though, so more research needed when I'd rather be actually doing stuff. Although if I leave it long...

Yes, just give them a call, they’re a very traditional company and probably don’t pay much attention to emails…

Ah, good point. Although I found myself pondering the storage available for an apex roof last night so things might change again yet…

Are 2 x 4 ok for the roof too?

Thanks, that does help! Although different roofing materials (even different manufacturers it seems) call for quite different figures. Still thinking about the roof construction / materials but it’ll likely end up being pretty basic as I just need to have somewhere watertight for winter...

Roof pitch, I'm lost. Based on the adjacent garage I've used 2.5°. Internet calculators (I'm not clever) say this is 0.52:12 or 1:23? Roof covering...probably torch on felt.

I didn’t - haven’t heard of that before - sounds like a sticky job! I will fold some DPC over the edges though.

Stud layout...2 x 4s again - overkill? Probably.

I (personally) wouldn’t trust them for anything other than a light duty floor, and if used for the roof it still needs to be covered, whereas the profiled roofing sheets are ready to go.

I’ve been giving some thought to just building the walls with SIPs. I haven’t worked it out properly but I think I’d need around 12 and I can’t imagine it would work out much more expensive than the materials to frame the walls, unless I decide the insulation isn’t worth the bother. Not sure...

A phone call from my 94yr old neighbour who had fallen and gashed her head. Proper result with ambulance coming in 2hrs rather than the projected 6…or perhaps they’re compensating for disappointment nowadays?

Insulation in Also picked up a massive 2100 x 600mm UPVC window with toughened double glazing for £140. This will be nice if I ever use it for any work rather than storage as a bench will go nicely in front of it. Are 2 x 3s adequate for the wall framing? Spacing? Have read up a little...

I don’t see it… EDIT: yes I do, you have to be on a PC…thanks

Just curious if anyone knows who this guy is? I get the impression he might like to keep it under the radar a bit but he seems to do commissions and it looks like he probably has some pretty high end clients. I’d love to see a website if he has one. https://youtube.com/c/NewYorkshireWorkshop

You just climb up and jam knives between the keys like Keith Emerson