Kitchen Extension 6m*3m plus new roof 6m*6m

[Webbofwire]

Hi All, I have a question.
Should I build a steel frame and timer walls or should I build in blocks. You should know that there is going to be a heavy single pitched roof on top! I would like minimal effort at ground level.
Your thoughts! Cheers

 

[noseall]

What makes you think a timber or steel frame will be less effort than a conventional masonry jobbie.

All will need to sit on a similar foundation.

 

[wreckedit]

Hi All, I have a question.
Should I build a steel frame and timer walls or should I build in blocks.

Go for the timer walls every time.

 

[noseall]

Hi All, I have a question.
Should I build a steel frame and timer walls or should I build in blocks.

Go for the timer walls every time.

Timber structures have external maintenance issues as well as being hollow.

 

[Webbofwire]

Whats the odd B between friends! Thank you for your thoughts. TIMBER I can do myself, blocks are not me.

What extra maintenance would timber need?

Cheers

 

[^woody^]

Timber structures have external maintenance issues as well as being hollow.

Even when clad with brick or tile?

A can't see why the OP would consider a steel frame though for an extension, what would be the point? Why not just a timber frame?

Obviously if you can't lay bricks and don't want to learn and don't want to pay anybody, then it will have to be a timber frame. You've sill got to dig out the foundations and lay the substructure walls, unless you do some elaborate concrete beams