My oak frame shed is 6m x 4m, it did come in massively over budget
allow £500 - £1,000 for decent foundations
I've been thinking about building a garden room for the last 12 months and have decided to go ahead. Because it will be less than 15m2 it
won't need to be built to building regs, but I want to anyway. What will I need to do to comply? Do you know of a handy online guide?
I was planning stud partition walls, vapour barrier, air gap and cedar cladding. I like the idea of round walls so perhaps laminated thin ply on the
stud partition over the curves. Or perhaps just planks with edges planed at an angle to make a nice butt joint. What kind of size do the timbers
need to be? As a guide, it will be about the size of a single garage.
As long as it's behind the front wall of the house and 1m meter from the neighbours then just build away within planning regs.
My oak frame shed is 6m x 4m, it did come in massively over budget allow £500 - £1,000 for decent foundations
For an extension, we would typically use 140x38mm studs with 120mm PIR (Celotex) insulation; vapour barrier (polythene) on the inside; 9mm. OSB
sheathing on the outside, then breather membrane, vertical battens to create a ventilated cavity (+counterbattens if you then want vertically
boarded cladding), then your cedar cladding.
You need to be particularly careful about floor-wall junctions, and the connection of the timber frame structure with your (presumably masonry?)
existing external walls.
U2U me if this is a serious project (sorry, but I really can't afford the time to advise if you're just 'thinking about
it' ) and you require further information beyond that - it's what I do for a living (Design & Technical Director for a timber frame
manufacturer).
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Originally posted by Sam_68
For an extension, we would typically use 140x38mm studs with 120mm PIR (Celotex) insulation; vapour barrier (polythene) on the inside; 9mm. OSB sheathing on the outside, then breather membrane, vertical battens to create a ventilated cavity (+counterbattens if you then want vertically boarded cladding), then your cedar cladding.
You need to be particularly careful about floor-wall junctions, and the connection of the timber frame structure with your (presumably masonry?) existing external walls.
U2U me if this is a serious project (sorry, but I really can't afford the time to advise if you're just 'thinking about it' ) and you require further information beyond that - it's what I do for a living (Design & Technical Director for a timber frame manufacturer).
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Originally posted by smart51...This is what I was thinking of, but with significantly smaller studwork.