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Hi Bernard, I can do better than that, I kept track of the cost and don't mind sharing it: concrete 300 rebar mesh 60 shuttering timber 30 dpm 30 frame timber 280 door and windows 150 sheathing osb 155 screws 50 roof deck+firings 150 breather membrane 35 insulation 195 inside paint / floor...

Hi Claymore, All sorts of things really...I used to have a pretty big offroad buggy that I built in my mum's garage, but these days it's normally smaller bits and pieces for the bike. I made a couple of compressed air motors and that was quite fun. So the cladding finally turned up, and at 5.1m...

The outside cladding is on order but is taking a while to come so thought I'd move some stuff in. Moving the lathe from my mum's was quite an operation that required borrowing a trailer, making a trolley and a lot of brute force: But we managed in the end and nothing got broke. Next up was...

And the interior was completed :)

And there we have it...a completed plasterboard ceiling and LED downlights. Wiring the first one up and switching it on was quite fun, by the tenth, not so much: Just need to roller paint the ceiling white and then I can move some stuff in. The plan is to try and bring the lathe from my mum's...

Hi John, I got ten 4W LED bulbs and the fittings for about 50 quid from Screwfix, and four 58W flourescents would have been around 100 quid, so in combination with the better headroom it seemed a no-brainer. Totally agree with the power points - I've put separate circuits in for the lathe and...

Hi Paul, There's actually no gravel, what you can see wrapped up are soakaway crates. They're basically glorified milk crates that leave a big open void in the ground once they're all covered up. You're supposed to wrap them up in a 'non woven geotextile membrane', but I had some weed control...

Hi Yogibe4r, The roof is an EPDM kit that I got from Permaroof.co.uk, the membrane and all of the trims/adhesives was about £290 delivered. Made some more progress: Electrics are in: Back two sides are clad in corrugated steel: (the 135° bends are painted black now!) Made a little...

More progress has been made. I've flashed the corners of the windows: Painted the internal walls: Painted the floor: And fitted the fascias and EPDM roof kit: Steel cladding for the two sides that aren't visible from the house next.

So this weekend I've fixed all the 2"x1" battening (nearly 80m in total) Fixed insect mesh over the gap at the end of each of the rafters (12 meshes in total) And made some temporary covers for the windows as I won't be able to work on it now for a week or two.. One thing I'm not...

Terry, My plan was to run a workbench along the wall with the windows, getting maximum benefit from daylight :) So yesterday after work I installed all of the insulation and then the breather membrane: Next step battening, and then it'll probably have to wait a week or two as I'll be on a...

Hi Chris, The overhang is 150mm. Planning on some approximately 4x1" around the edge then capped with UPVC fascia board.

So Friday saw the arrival of 11 sheets of OSB3. This was the third supplier after the previous two had delivered OSB2 'by mistake' then claimed not to know what the difference was. I really wonder whether everyone gets OSB2 unless they notice what's printed on the board! Anyway all the walls...

Terry, What you made looks a neat job and very similar to mine aside from the brick plinth! Pretty certain now I'll go with the OSB on the inside. I was thinking pallet banding might be a nice way of keeping all the insulation within the cavity and stop the membrane being pushed out. Was...

@Terry, I've thought about putting the OSB on the inside as you say, but I wasn't planning to insulate the walls at first which I guess you would need to this way around. Also then the insulation would be directly against the membrane...how does this work out? I guess if you were using solid...

If you're within a metre of the boundary building regs say the building has to be substantially noncombustible if it's got a floor area more than 15 square metres, but this is about 12 so I'm OK :) Plan for the floor so far is just to paint it to keep the dust down. I'm used to working on an...

Hi, First post on here, great forum I must say. Thought I'd post some pictures of the new workshop I'm building. I'm more into metalwork than woodwork but the building is mostly wood so I reckon it qualifies for this forum :) So far I've made a reinforced concrete slab over a DPM and the 4x2...