Mikes New Workshop thread --- I hope somebody's interested

[mpooley]

Hi All
I hope you lot can stand reading yet another Workshop build thread but I would love to know what you think and any ideas that you have that i might incorporate.

I had a digger in to prepare the ground and laid a concrete foundation.
then the wood arrived!

then i got stuck in! layed a DPC and fixed a base wall plate to the concrete making sure all the diagonals were equal.

Next me and a mate did the walls.

not bad for a day!

spent the next few days resting and preparing for the trusses - making up some of my own design scaffold etc. Then the trusses arrived at 10am in the middle of a snow storm! Had to unload them by hand and this is dinner time!

next morning!

I've had a couple of days refining the design! (Having a rest!) and am waiting for my mate to come tomorrow so that we can get the facias up and the insulation in the walls,
after that i am building on a side porch - felting the roof etc

hope you find this interesting
Mike

 

[Neil]

Great progress, Mike! :shock:

Keep us posted...

Cheers,
Neil

 

[dedee]

Another small workshop :mrgreen: :wink:

Also great to watch these builds - thanks for sharing.

Andy

 

[syntec4]

Quick work Mike, Nice one. keep the pics coming.


Lee.

 

[gidon]

Wish you lived a bit closer! Excellent suff - I need to build a new workshop - mine's falling to bits. I don't even know where to start!
Keep the pics coming.
Cheers
Gidon

 

[Shultzy]

Nice work Mike, strange to see the walls built from the inside out :lol:

 

[Adam]

Whoo hooo, now thats going to be some workshop!

Bet its a bit chilly working out at the moment though!

Adam

 

[Paul Chapman]

Always interesting, Mike It's looking good.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Evergreen]

Mike

It looks very good and soooooo big! Down here in the Hampshire Everglades, at least two whole families would be living in it......

Regards.

 

[greggy]

i get it, thats not a workshop. come on you are bernard mathews, your location gives it away. joking aside i think its going to be great, loking good. and keep the picis coming :lol:

 

[Fecn]

Looking so good already.. and after only 6 days.

Planning on any windows?

Keep those pictures coming

 

[mpooley]

Thanks for all replies , i'm glad your not all fed up with worshop builds yet!

Yes i am putting in windows, I have put all noggins in place in the walls and will be cutting them out later when the worshop is working so i can make my own frames.

Thw weather has been awful here this week and i'm afraid i rushed putting the facias up in the pouring rain! they are a bit in and outy!!
I have tried packing them out to get them straight but it just wont stop raining!

One question : Soffits ? It would be easiest to nail them to the bottoms of the overhanging trusses at an angle but i have never seen it done this way. Is there any reason that they are normally battened out and fixed at a right angle?

Ok two questions
I have put DPC under the bottom rail and folded it 6 inches up the wall this is then covered by the wall wrap so that no water can get to the bottom tinbers. I am then going to shiplap over that. My question is that i am thinking that the bottom plank of shiplap will get a lot of splashback and maybe i should replace it with 6inches of the fibre cement sheet roofers use as undercloaking.
Do you think that would be suitable?

Oh 3rd question would that fibre cement be good to use as the soffit also?

Thanks for your interest

Mike

 

[Freetochat]

strange to see the walls built from the inside out :lol:

When I built, I did it like that. The sheeting was quick to fix, and helped in the stability.

 

[mpooley]

strange to see the walls built from the inside out :lol:

When I built, I did it like that. The sheeting was quick to fix, and helped in the stability.

Yes it makes the whole job much quicker to erect and more stable.

Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Could you speed it up a bit? :wink:

 

[mpooley]

OK I'll try :shock:

more pics tonight i hope

 

[mpooley]

Ok sorry about the delay in adding photo's but i've been so exhausted I havnt had the strength :lol:

I have been busy as you can see. I have built the roofs for both porches. insulated and cladd the walls in 'wallwrap' and started studding out for the shiplap.
I have also done some work inside and am a third the way through laying the joists, Blimmin hard getting them level as the wood is not exactly straight :shock:

I have done a lot of cladding now but am waiting for some sunny day to take a picture
Couple of problems, I've forgotten to put waste outlet through the foundations so i'll have to use one of the Ventilation holes instead. Just hope i can get enough ventilation down there.

Roof is coming along also and at least i can hide in there when it rains!!
which seems quite a lot of the time at the moment :shock:


Thanks for the interest !

BTW my date has been reset on my camera - i didnt use a time machine lol

 

[kafkaian]

Excellent. Have the local council reps come for a nose yet?

 

[mpooley]

No
I didnt need planning permission so they told me :shock:

 

[kafkaian]

No
I didnt need planning permission so they told me :shock:

That's good then. No worries.

In Birmingham I worry about breathing before doing anything. Am about to put up a shed at the bottom of the garden but worry about that.

Anyway, you're doing a great job. Keep it up