garden room

Hi - we have a decent sized outbuilding which sits in a sturdy base that we plan to convert and make water tight so it can be used as an outside room (workshop or office not decided). The structure appears sound and it’s been here for 20+ years (neighbors dad used to live in our property and...

I'd like to build a medium sized (let's say 4x3 m) room at the top of my garden where there's currently the wreck of a shed. The area is at the top of a slope. There's also a drainage ditch for the adjacent farm field on the other side so the area sits on a sort of plateau. I guess this is...

Right, here we go.. I have a detached garage built in the sixties with a substantial plinth. The garage is now gone allowing me to have a good look at the plinth. It's square and has a depth of over 150mm. It's downside is that there's no DPM. The plan is to build a garden office on top of...

I'm planning to build a garden room at some point and I have a question about getting power to it. I'd have lighting and sockets plus potentially an electric sauna so it'd need a consumer unit to handle the different circuits. The most convenient place to get power would be from the garage...

I've got a shiplap clad garden room built by the previous owner and one of the panels about half way up has somehow managed to pop out of being attached to the one above it, resulting in a gap. It's still attached further along but any attempts to lever it back into fitting have failed and are...

I'm looking at getting a garden room built in my back garden in a conservation area. PD states that in a conservation area: E.3 In the case of any land within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse which is article 2(3) land, development is not permitted by Class E if any part of the building...

We're getting a garden room built and I'm looking at the different roof options. We can either have EPDM roof on OSB with insulation below or 100mm Kingspan insulated metal panels. I much prefer the look of the metal roof but I'm curious as to whether it would increase the noise from rain...

I'm about to reach my outbuilding's max height but another course of block would make it too tall when I come to doing the flat roof. Possible options a) 2 courses of brick then roof or b) 1 course of aerated block, cut short via reciprocating saw (around 30 units?). They sit on medium...

Hi all, I am planning to build a garden room which will be 6.6 meters wide and 5 meters long/deep. I have managed to find joists that are 6 meters long which will give me the overhang on the front and back. The roof will then have firring strips on top, 18mm OSB board and then EPDM rubber on...

Hello! I am going to build a steel frame garden room (light guage steel) of size 6m x6m, with slimline sliding doors spanning the whole width of the front wall. There is essentially no steel on the front wall apart from where the side walls (150mm studs) come up to the doorline and past it on...

Hi, I have a thick & reinforced hardstanding that is going to be used to build a garden room within the permitted development. It was originally intended as a brick garage years ago but was never built. The hardstanding is NOT coming up or being drilled out.... The sub-base for the garden room...

Hi there. First time post - nice to meet you! I'm planning a self build timber frame garden room with a flat roof that has an internal span of 3.3m. From the span tables I've seen, 6x2 on 400mm centres would be best - based on minimal loads as doing a cold roof and wont be up there often and...

Hi All, I'm planning to build a summer house at the end of my garden up to the boundary, with rough dimensions of 7.5m x 3.5m, flat warm roof. Plan to use the space all year round as an office though will also house gym equipment and therefore am looking to maximise the head height for over...

Hi, I am in Essex and I would like to build an outbuilding 4.9m x 2.7 meters (approx 13sqm) and 2.8m tall near the neighbour boundary. I would need planning permission because it is above the 2.5m tall permitted development limit. Would I need building regulations approval as well? According to...

Hi we have a brick shed approximately 12 square metres at the bottom of our garden - it was there when we moved in 11 years ago. It's very close to the back fence boundary - much less than a metre. It's in quite good condition and we would like to adapt it to make a home office and gym. To do...

I'm considering building a garden room / outbuilding down the bottom of the garden. I'm no builder but I'm toying with the idea of using a SIPs garden room kit as an insulated brick one is expensive. I've seen 6m x 3m design from supersips that we like, it's going to be located within 1m of the...

On the topic of garden rooms and Permitted Development. We live in a very standard terraced house but our garden is somewhat peculiar: the end of the garden has a highway on one side, a neighbour which erected (no idea when) a 3m high wall made out of concrete blocks and another neighbour whose...

Hi all Just looking for some advice. I have built a summer house which is cladded with Hardie Plank followed by a breathable membrane. The frame is built with 4x2 and I'm using Rockwall at 75mm for the insulation. I fixed the cladding directly against the membrane and frame so I want to create...

Hi all, After years of hanging around this site, I finally have a big enough project of my own to share. I am building a garden room (yes... it's another garden room post) with a view to discovering if I can learn enough skills to eventually build my own timber frame house extension (which I...

Hi everyone, I was just curious as to what you'd Suggest to get my slab levelled. The old concrete seems solid but has a few cracks, and are a little off level. Basically, we are going to build a wooden garden room, if possible we would like to avoid having to re apply concrete slab. and...