Can you buy ready made insulated walls?

Using a SIPS panels would be great but perhaps a bit of a labour of love getting it to look good on the outside. If you're looking for cheap n cheerful, buy a normal shed and use expanding foam to glue insulated plasterboard to the inside? Or if you're not bothered about adding the weight of the plasterboard, glue kingspan sheets and wallpaper them
 
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A neighbour's got a shed made from grey enamelled steel corrugated insulated panels, as used to build warehouses. It looks great, it really doesn't need any pointless wood that will just rot anyway.

Another neighbour has replaced his shed roof with the same panels in dark green. Also looks great.

I quite like a bit of industrial chic. Go your own way, don't be a slave to stupid fashions.
 
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But it’s quite expensive.
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Not so much. an 8x4 SIP with 11mm OSB each side and 100mm insulation is £81 INC VAT. Maybe you can shave a few ££ making a frame and insulating it, but it won't be much of a saving. Wrapped in a cheap membrane and clad in something cheap like shiplap or polyester covered steel and you can make insulated buildings quite inexpensively. Standard SIPs are easy enough to cut to size on site.
 
Ivor Windybottom said:
I reckon you could run into planning issues sticking either of those in your garden.

Definitely would need some sort of cladding. And new doors plus many other modifications. But the corrugated panels look pretty good as-is, might cost a bit more but don't need anything else.
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Why would you run into planning issues , you can cover 50% of your garden space with outbuildings before needing planning... see https://www.planningportal.co.uk/permission/common-projects/outbuildings/planning-permission

All you need to convert a shed is some insulation between the panel frames, breather barrier - roofing membrane is is ideal some insulated plasterboard over.. the main issue is the floor, good insulated underlay sorts that out.
 
martygturner said:
Why would you run into planning issues , you can cover 50% of your garden space with outbuildings before needing planning... see https://www.planningportal.co.uk/permission/common-projects/outbuildings/planning-permission

All you need to convert a shed is some insulation between the panel frames, breather barrier - roofing membrane is is ideal some insulated plasterboard over.. the main issue is the floor, good insulated underlay sorts that out.
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A quick google tells me a standard shipping container is 8'6" tall, which is 259cm, which is too tall for permitted development.

That's before you've added to the height with a base and/or some additional roofing.

So definitely can't do. Besides the fact that they're actually pretty expensive and will always say "I'm a shipping container", no matter how you dress it up.
 
Ivor Windybottom said:
A quick google tells me a standard shipping container is 8'6" tall, which is 259cm, which is too tall for permitted development.

That's before you've added to the height with a base and/or some additional roofing.

So definitely can't do. Besides the fact that they're actually pretty expensive and will always say "I'm a shipping container", no matter how you dress it up.
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Again re read the the law... shipping containers are portable and therefor are temporary - just like a caravan....... only if they are converted to either live in or run a business from are they deemed to be permanent but then again if you you want to use one without planning for an office it just has to conform to the following rule...


  • Maximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within two metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse.


hope that helps.
 
People put sheds in corners, not in the middle of their garden, so most are realistically going to be within 2m of a boundary so not usually allowed.

I would not rely on the whole "temporary" argument. That's often touted as the miracle solution by the people who are flogging the things, as it's not their problem if you run into problems after you've installed and paid for it. Best to avoid lengthy legal disputes, even if you think you know all the answers.

Besides, a shipping container will always look terrible however many planks of wood you nail on, or hanging baskets you screw to the thing.

Second-hand usually means there's a reason why someone's dumping it - it's probably beyond it's useful life, will have spent many years sprayed with saltwater at sea and is probably as rotten as an Austin Allegro underneath.
 
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Ivor Windybottom said:
People put sheds in corners, not in the middle of their garden, so most are realistically going to be within 2m of a boundary so not usually allowed.

I would not rely on the whole "temporary" argument. That's often touted as the miracle solution by the people who are flogging the things, as it's not their problem if you run into problems after you've installed and paid for it. Best to avoid lengthy legal disputes, even if you think you know all the answers.

Besides, a shipping container will always look terrible however many planks of wood you nail on, or hanging baskets you screw to the thing.

Second-hand usually means there's a reason why someone's dumping it - it's probably beyond it's useful life, will have spent many years sprayed with saltwater at sea and is probably as rotten as an Austin Allegro underneath.
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In your opinion...
 
Shipping containers and insulated van/lorry bodies are 2 different things.

The fridge bodies tend to be very cheap, they don't really have a scrap value. They're basically built out of insulation, with a skin of aluminium inside and out.

I was semi joking when I put the links up, but I do have a circa 30ft fridge box in the garden, it's a long story but it cost next to nothing, £150 for a hiab to deliver it, it's just sat on the soil on bearers, no foundation required. If you're fussed you can paint them, there was someone flogging them in olive green and I thought they looked really smart.
Instant condensation free shed, at a very low price.

Height wise it's lower than my large timber shed (well shelter), that's 3m high.

I think you can go up to 4m high with permitted development, the rules are different Scotland/England, and rules only count if you get caught......
 
I seem to remember a news story about someone trying to use the "temporary" argument, the council required him to hire a crane and actually demonstrate that it could be lifted.

It would have cost £1000+ for this little stunt, all supposedly to save money.
 
It's not the simple loophole that some think it is. But the companies flogging the things will tell you it is as it's not going to be them paying for the crane hire and lengthy legal disputes. They'll have already got your money by the time problems arise.
 
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