garden office

Hello, I am renovating my single skin garden office / outbuilding. As part of it, i am going to raise the roof as i barely fit inside. The current brick walls are approx 217.5cm high from the foundations (around 29 courses of 75mm brickwork). I want to build the wall up another 4 courses -...

Looking for advice please. Apologies if this question has already been asked - I have read all I could on the forum and I appreciate the shed timber framing might not be sufficient but I've got to work with it. I have an existing shed, approx 8ft by 11ft. its made from CLS 33x68mm timber...

Any help would be great here... We're moving house and have a 10'x8' garden office (only 5 months old, on a flat, concrete base) that we want to take with us... No problem in moving it (fortunately my best friend owns a crane firm!) but, and it's a big but, the property we're moving to is...

Hello all We would like to run power and ethernet to a recently constructed garden office (actually a log cabin). Distance to the main house is approx 50m. There is a spare 32 amp on the existing consumer unit. The cable run can be partially buried, but would need to be along the bottom edge of...

Hi, I'm in the process of building a garden office. As I'll be working from there during the day I'd like to extend the door bell into there wirelessly. Currently I have a Friedland door bell transformer (https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/VE753.html), conventional door bell switch and...

Hello, I'm in the process of planning a small garden office build. I'll build the office but pay an electrician to install the electrics. However I just want to understand the potential extent of electrical works required. I currently have a BG dual rcd board (I know BG isn't great but it...

I am building a garden office at present and have laid a concrete base which will be just smaller than the finished shed size. My question is will I need to raise the shed or can I lay the floor directly on the concrete base?

Hi, I am building a garden room which is not your 'standard' shape, using the space I have available. I have almost completed the foundations and basic floor base (see pics). I am trying to keep within permitted development, under 30m2 and within 2.5m maximum height. The issue I'm having is in...

Hello, I am looking into building a shed in the back yard which my partner will use as a salon. I have a few questions but the main one being, with me plastering the inside with foil backed board, what type of insulation should I use in the floor, walls and ceiling? I will be wrapping the...

Hey team, Can anyone suggest how to fix up this garden office. Inside: corner is cracked and you can just about make out daylight. Woodlice are roaming around! The ends of some of the rear beams have rotten away. Rotting of rear beams, depth 1”. Thinking Ronseal Wet Rot Hardener. I’m...

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...

So as I've mentioned here, I'm currently planning a Garden Office build at the end of our 30m garden. The building will contain a small kitchenette, for tea's/coffee's etc and a small cloakroom with hand basin, so pretty minimal requirements. I'm now at the point where I need to start laying...

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...

Hi, I am building the foundations for a garden office of 3.8m by 3.9m footprint Access to the site is not great (approx 70m walk with wheelbarrow and rising about 5m) so I want to use materials that I can carry up a little each evening. This rules out a concrete raft so I am considering...

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...

I'm getting my old asbestos timber garage removed and hoping to erect a garden room in it's place, bit of a half DIY job to avoid getting ripped off, however I don't know if the base is good enough for a more comprehensive building, here's some pics of it inside and out. I've already settled...

Not sure where to post this query, but hope someone can help. I've mostly built a garden studio, insulated, cladded and now onto the internal finish with the vcl, but am unsure how to approach the electrical sockets, window frames and doors. How do you get around sockets, frames, fixings for...

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...

I'm thinking about materials to clad my garden room in and was going for ply panels or battens which I want to stain/paint black. Ideally with ply I'd like to see some wood grain through it, but am confused about the different types of ply. Marine ply is too expensive and possibly overkill, WBP...

Hi there, Firstly I'm new to this forum, so apologies if I've not posted in the correct place etc. Any advice on the following would be much appreciated: I'm building a garden office 4.8w x 2.4d x 2.5h. The concrete base is already done (about 80mm on top of hardcore, mot and dpm, no sand...