garden room

I'm about to reach my outbuilding's max height but another course of block would make it too tall when I come to doing the flat roof. Possible options a) 2 courses of brick then roof or b) 1 course of aerated block, cut short via reciprocating saw (around 30 units?). They sit on medium...

Hi all, I am planning to build a garden room which will be 6.6 meters wide and 5 meters long/deep. I have managed to find joists that are 6 meters long which will give me the overhang on the front and back. The roof will then have firring strips on top, 18mm OSB board and then EPDM rubber on...

Hello! I am going to build a steel frame garden room (light guage steel) of size 6m x6m, with slimline sliding doors spanning the whole width of the front wall. There is essentially no steel on the front wall apart from where the side walls (150mm studs) come up to the doorline and past it on...

Hi, I have a thick & reinforced hardstanding that is going to be used to build a garden room within the permitted development. It was originally intended as a brick garage years ago but was never built. The hardstanding is NOT coming up or being drilled out.... The sub-base for the garden room...

Hi there. First time post - nice to meet you! I'm planning a self build timber frame garden room with a flat roof that has an internal span of 3.3m. From the span tables I've seen, 6x2 on 400mm centres would be best - based on minimal loads as doing a cold roof and wont be up there often and...

Hi All, I'm planning to build a summer house at the end of my garden up to the boundary, with rough dimensions of 7.5m x 3.5m, flat warm roof. Plan to use the space all year round as an office though will also house gym equipment and therefore am looking to maximise the head height for over...

Hi, I am in Essex and I would like to build an outbuilding 4.9m x 2.7 meters (approx 13sqm) and 2.8m tall near the neighbour boundary. I would need planning permission because it is above the 2.5m tall permitted development limit. Would I need building regulations approval as well? According to...

Hi we have a brick shed approximately 12 square metres at the bottom of our garden - it was there when we moved in 11 years ago. It's very close to the back fence boundary - much less than a metre. It's in quite good condition and we would like to adapt it to make a home office and gym. To do...

I'm considering building a garden room / outbuilding down the bottom of the garden. I'm no builder but I'm toying with the idea of using a SIPs garden room kit as an insulated brick one is expensive. I've seen 6m x 3m design from supersips that we like, it's going to be located within 1m of the...

On the topic of garden rooms and Permitted Development. We live in a very standard terraced house but our garden is somewhat peculiar: the end of the garden has a highway on one side, a neighbour which erected (no idea when) a 3m high wall made out of concrete blocks and another neighbour whose...

Hi all Just looking for some advice. I have built a summer house which is cladded with Hardie Plank followed by a breathable membrane. The frame is built with 4x2 and I'm using Rockwall at 75mm for the insulation. I fixed the cladding directly against the membrane and frame so I want to create...

Hi all, After years of hanging around this site, I finally have a big enough project of my own to share. I am building a garden room (yes... it's another garden room post) with a view to discovering if I can learn enough skills to eventually build my own timber frame house extension (which I...

Hi everyone, I was just curious as to what you'd Suggest to get my slab levelled. The old concrete seems solid but has a few cracks, and are a little off level. Basically, we are going to build a wooden garden room, if possible we would like to avoid having to re apply concrete slab. and...

Hi all, I have a UPVC garden room structure at the back of my lawn. It is in a disastrous state as you can see in the pictures and I have been using it as a storage room only. Given the extra time on hands this summer, I am thinking to start doing some projects which help this room to be usable...

So the time has come to finally start my Garden Office build project. I've posted some info here - https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/garden-office-project.523670/, but the TL;DR is that I'm building a 4.27m x 4.27m garden office using SIPS panels at the bottom of my garden. As this is...

Hi all, I'm in the process of building a garden room. It's a lean-to structure in the corner of the garden against the boundary wall. There is a wall at the rear face and against the right hand side: My sketch is pretty rudimentary, but hopefully you can see a basic studwork structure in...

Hey all... I'm in the process of designing a new garden office to replace an existing T&G Log cabin that's had it's time... The office footprint is going to be 4.8m wide x 4.2m deep, and will come in under the 2.5m height for permitted development. I'm intending to add a small kitchenette...

I've built a garden office last year and is well insulated, breathable membrane, air gap then cladding for breathable aspects. On the warm side i.e. before internal walls is vapour barrier which I research as the best for stopping moisture in winter, and effectively creating a sealed box. The...

Hi Ive search in lots of places but cant find a definitive answer to reassure me. I have some concerns about the base of the new garden room I am having built by some builders. It seems a bit cowboyish to me. The new room sits where the old shed and patio is. So the wooden base half sits on a...

About to wrap my timber framed garden office with the breathable membrane and battens but am unsure how the edge detail is finished with an EPDM roof. The cold roof rafters end flush with the stud wall rather than any overhang. If I go by the limited diagrams seen so far (see attached), then...