Hi Everyone, I'm new here and new to building so please be gentle.
I'm planning to build a building at the bottom of my garden to be used as a home office/drum studio/motorbike store.
As you can tell by the description, it needs to be large and solidly built.
My neighbours all have buildings at the ends of their gardens, and my garden is big enough to handle it. It won't be over 50% of my garden space (for permitted development, right?) and it won't impact any of my side or rear neighbours.
It will be 30 foot wide (across the garden) and 14 foot deep (front to rear).
This will allow access down the sides and round the back of a couple of foot for maintenance etc.
Ideally I'd like the back wall built out of a solid material, some kind of brick/block so that I don't need to maintain it as much as a wooden structure would need.
The sides and the front, I'm not sure about. I'm in two minds whether to have them solid or wood.
I did have a couple of estimates from local builders but they were all in the £10k region!! I can't afford to spend that kind of money, much as I'd like to.
I'm a fairly handy guy and I've got a lot of friends who are good engineers/DIYers and willing to help out.
A friend of mine has already come round with his digger and dug out the top soil, leaving me with a decent sized hole at the end of my garden. The idea behind this was just to lay down a concrete slab and build on top, but another mate suggested we'd need footings at least for the back wall.
I've been trying to research and just don't quite grasp what needs to be done.
I would really appreciate any input you guys on here can give me. I have a willing workforce (promises of beer and barbeques).
Many thanks, Chris
I'm planning to build a building at the bottom of my garden to be used as a home office/drum studio/motorbike store.
As you can tell by the description, it needs to be large and solidly built.
My neighbours all have buildings at the ends of their gardens, and my garden is big enough to handle it. It won't be over 50% of my garden space (for permitted development, right?) and it won't impact any of my side or rear neighbours.
It will be 30 foot wide (across the garden) and 14 foot deep (front to rear).
This will allow access down the sides and round the back of a couple of foot for maintenance etc.
Ideally I'd like the back wall built out of a solid material, some kind of brick/block so that I don't need to maintain it as much as a wooden structure would need.
The sides and the front, I'm not sure about. I'm in two minds whether to have them solid or wood.
I did have a couple of estimates from local builders but they were all in the £10k region!! I can't afford to spend that kind of money, much as I'd like to.
I'm a fairly handy guy and I've got a lot of friends who are good engineers/DIYers and willing to help out.
A friend of mine has already come round with his digger and dug out the top soil, leaving me with a decent sized hole at the end of my garden. The idea behind this was just to lay down a concrete slab and build on top, but another mate suggested we'd need footings at least for the back wall.
I've been trying to research and just don't quite grasp what needs to be done.
I would really appreciate any input you guys on here can give me. I have a willing workforce (promises of beer and barbeques).
Many thanks, Chris