Paul200
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....or Garden Room or Summer House. Similar to a workshop WIP but with beer 8)
At risk of boring everyone I thought I'd post progress on my big shed project mainly to invite criticism because, although fairly confident in what I'm doing, I don't know everything and sometimes can't see the bl**ding obvious!
We were lucky enough to be able to follow our dream and retire to SW Scotland last year. We found a 150yo cottage 'in need of restoration' with a couple of acres of land and an old tin shed with a 60' Oak on it's roof! We cleared the timber and took what was left of the shed apart and were left with a pile of corrugated roofing sheets and a concrete base 5m x 4m. (And a whole load of timber for our woodburner
)
The outlook from the site is fabulous so we decided to make the most of it and build a garden room with a deck on two sides, all enclosed under an overall roof - neither of us are sun-worshippers and it rains a bit here so we didn't want an open deck.
This is what we want to end up with...
The concrete base was solid enough but broken up in places - especially towards the back (nearest the camera). I considered pouring more concrete over the top of it all but didn't fancy hauling tons of materials up the hill so opted for individually cast blocks at 60cm intervals for the 4x2 cross-members - supported at 130cm across the width.....
The decking went in next, with gaps left for the 4x4 support posts....
The banding strapped around the timber delivery came in useful to support the polystyrene floor insulation...
More to come later and, as I said, any helpful comments are more than welcome.
Cheers
Paul
At risk of boring everyone I thought I'd post progress on my big shed project mainly to invite criticism because, although fairly confident in what I'm doing, I don't know everything and sometimes can't see the bl**ding obvious!
We were lucky enough to be able to follow our dream and retire to SW Scotland last year. We found a 150yo cottage 'in need of restoration' with a couple of acres of land and an old tin shed with a 60' Oak on it's roof! We cleared the timber and took what was left of the shed apart and were left with a pile of corrugated roofing sheets and a concrete base 5m x 4m. (And a whole load of timber for our woodburner
)The outlook from the site is fabulous so we decided to make the most of it and build a garden room with a deck on two sides, all enclosed under an overall roof - neither of us are sun-worshippers and it rains a bit here so we didn't want an open deck.
This is what we want to end up with...
The concrete base was solid enough but broken up in places - especially towards the back (nearest the camera). I considered pouring more concrete over the top of it all but didn't fancy hauling tons of materials up the hill so opted for individually cast blocks at 60cm intervals for the 4x2 cross-members - supported at 130cm across the width.....
The decking went in next, with gaps left for the 4x4 support posts....
The banding strapped around the timber delivery came in useful to support the polystyrene floor insulation...
More to come later and, as I said, any helpful comments are more than welcome.
Cheers
Paul
