Hello,
I am looking to build a garden room ideally 8 x 3.5m. However behind my fence there are a lot of tree's and bushes, keeping these trees healthly is important since they act as a screen between my house and a college building behind them. There is quite a big Oak tree that sits right behind my fence and a Chesnut tree with an 60cm meter wide trunk a metre away from the back of my fence.
I know the soil in my garden is going to be pretty tangled up with roots, so I was thinking to build my garden room on concrete blocks, on a 10cm layer of MOT Type 1. Then placing a weed membrane in between the blocks. Then followed by a garden frame etc
I thought this method would still allow air flow underneath the building so the soil could still stay slightly oxygentated which would benefit the roots, although I am not sure how the weed membrane would effect that.
Any advice or feedback about the best foundation option for this situation, or tree knowledge is much appreciated.
I roughly laid out the building dimensions with stakes, please see attached pictures
Thanks,
Antony
I am looking to build a garden room ideally 8 x 3.5m. However behind my fence there are a lot of tree's and bushes, keeping these trees healthly is important since they act as a screen between my house and a college building behind them. There is quite a big Oak tree that sits right behind my fence and a Chesnut tree with an 60cm meter wide trunk a metre away from the back of my fence.
I know the soil in my garden is going to be pretty tangled up with roots, so I was thinking to build my garden room on concrete blocks, on a 10cm layer of MOT Type 1. Then placing a weed membrane in between the blocks. Then followed by a garden frame etc
I thought this method would still allow air flow underneath the building so the soil could still stay slightly oxygentated which would benefit the roots, although I am not sure how the weed membrane would effect that.
Any advice or feedback about the best foundation option for this situation, or tree knowledge is much appreciated.
I roughly laid out the building dimensions with stakes, please see attached pictures
Thanks,
Antony