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Thanks for the response. I will not being any work myself I am just trying to work out if the garage is useable or if will have to go from the front the house. My brother in law is an electrician but he live in Belfast and I live in West Sussex, he advised that 6mm would be sufficient as...

Hope this is the right place. Currently we live in a dormer bungalow and the electric supply comes into the house under the stairs at the front. I want to put power to a garden office I am building at the end of the 110ft garden. We have a garage which has a 6mm SWA fitted into it from...

There's a guy two doors down from me who has a caravan in his front garden which he uses as an office. My road is full of old people who all have caravans (posh ones) so it doesn't stick out. he's been out there all through the winter so it can't be that bad. I considered this as an option...

I am thinking of lining the walls and roof with 12mm ply. I really can't be arsed with plasterboard and having it skimmed. I can paint ply a nice shade of white. So what ply should I look to get as there seems to an awful lot of different types of ply.

It's called a Shire Security Cabin. There's not much information on the web about model but shire get good reviews for their other cabins so I am ok with it. As I said this one just appealed to me as it's basically a glorified shed with a secure door (piano hinged) and one window (which I will...

Thanks. I did feel slightly like I had been scammed but reading local reviews of the garden centre and they get good reviews and those who have had log cabins etc from them say they are good quality. So I can live with it. It will be at least 2 inches off the ground easily. Anyone any...

Excellent. Thanks. I have an sds already and am pretty handy at most DIY but plumbing is where I usually fail.

So after all this agonising and planning etc. I went to a local wood merchant and had a chat about what I am planning to do. He looked my plans and pics and agreed it would be better to build it myself but before I order I should go see a local garden place that just does wooden decking...

Sorry to hijack this thread but how hard is it to add an outside tap? At the moment our outside tap comes out of the bathroom which is at the front of the house (it's a bungalow) but its also now under a soil pipe. Anyway the perfect place for a tap would be outside the kitchen which is at...

I have pretty much sorted the area out for the base and tidied up the trees and that. I have worked out I can get a 12x8 shed in the space which gives me a bit more to play with. I bought this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Workshop-Construction-Practice-Jim-Forrest/dp/185486131X - got it for...

Thanks for the replies lads. Is there a decent basic guide online anywhere which shows what I need to do to get started? I understand creating a frame but Big-all did you use 3x2 for the whole structure - floor, walls etc?

Hey all I posted in the garden section the other day looking for advice on insulating a shed to use as an office in the garden. The more I look round, the more I am leaning towards building my own. I had planned to get something like this...

look for the path of least resistance. My house is a dormer bungalow and I needed to run an electric feed to the garage which is approx 3 foot from the house. The electric feed is at the front of the house so we ran the cable up through the attic and then fitted a junction box. I ran armour...

Thanks for the response but I only have about £1000 for the whole lot (that's getting electrics done for free) so a log cabin is not in my budget. Hence my plan to buy a cheaper shed and over engineer it.

You don't need armoured cat5. It's used for industrial installations. Powerline adapters are useless and I am pretty sure they can't transmit the signal across separate circuits which I would presume your garage is. So you would have to run a network cable to the garage anyway to use a...

Cat5E will survive for about a year in the elements. In my last house I got some MDPE water pipe (it's the blue stuff) and put 4 cable through that. It took a while but I read of a trick online where you tie some fishing line to some tissue paper (or glue to a small marble) and suck through...

Hey All, I am buying this: http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Wooden-Sheds/BillyOh-4000L-Kent-Tongue-and-Groove-Garden-Shed Or something very similar to it. At the moment there is a concrete base at the bottom of the garden (previous owner had a shed and green house down...

Something like this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-debris-gully/25121 or this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/bottle-gully-circular-grid/28956 ??

That would mean having to demolish a wall which I don't have the time or funds to do right now. Today i smashed up the old teracota pipe 4m of it was completely solid with dirt, leaves and silt. It was also going uphil!! It's like everything in the house, put in on a Friday after lunch...

Sorry I clicked into the wrong forum. This is probably in the wrong section,