Recent content by seka1980

I'm currently building a garden office from timber over and area of decking in my back garden, my plan is to take the decking up where the office will be insulate between the joists lay a ply wood floor lay a final floor (as of yet undecided) my question is do I need to put some kind...

would getting planning permission on something like this be hard?

i guess my point is that neighbour 2 didn't complain against neighbour 1's log cabin when it was built 2 years ago

hello there Ive built a garden office on top of a decking area I have behind my house and in order to get some head room ive made the front a bit higher than I guess I should of! The back of the building is 2m 20cm from the eaves to the decking 2m 35cm from the decking to the top of...

thanks for that one other question im having a 600mm overhang on one end of the roof (the joists are 2x6 at 400 centers) is this to far for an overhang? could the joists sag?

Hi there I'm just building a garden office and im just about to put the joists on for the flat roof, ive built a pitched roof before but want to know if I need to notch out the roof joists each end on this flat roof , the roof is a 5% pitch and im using truss clips thanks jon

Hi all can anyone tell me if its OK to use insulation between and under the joists on a warm flat roof as well as the usual one's on top ( apart from extra cost is there any down side?) im building a garden office, so there's no building regs involved and I tend to do things over kill...

my problem is i always get carried away (in a good way) and like doing jobs the correct way, but on the other hand i keep telling my self its ony a garden shed!

hi there ive build a shed in the garden out of 3x2 and 18 mm ply i want to put cedar shingles on the roof, currently the roof is a sheet of 18mm ply with roofing felt on top, can i just nail the shingles into the ply with a good over lap or do i have to batten the roof? the roof had a 30...

Hi there I have spent the last year re-furbing my house and i have installed john guest under floor heating with a new worcester bosch boiler and im just trying to get my head around something, now please bare with me as im new to this, but what im struggling to get my head around is how the...

hi there im just getting the final touches ready to my house before i put the insulation down and then have the floor screeded. But can any one please tell me the standard practice on what to do with the cavity between the out side doors and the inside skin of brick work? do they get filled...