Horizontal cladding on garden room

Weight worried me a bit too, I'm on a big slope, so it's timber base sitting on 12 concrete blocks, that sit upon concrete stacks, although they are 800mm deep
 
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Went for planning to get to 3m. Wanted a cedar front and composite sides and back, planning officer wasnt keen on mixing materials
flipping heck - what did you put in your planning for a garden room? I did planning for mine too, but my description was just slate or slate-effect roof and clad exterior. I used wriggly tin for the unseen back walls too.
 
I've had vertical T&G, and every board rotted at the bottom, where rain soaked into the end grain, both running down the boards and splashing up..
How about, stop the vertical planks short and use one or more rows of horizontal composite planks like a skirt at the bottom?
 
They was a nightmare. Wanted to know everything. Hoping to build an extension in a year or so,,, looking forward to that now, not
 
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flipping heck - what did you put in your planning for a garden room? I did planning for mine too, but my description was just slate or slate-effect roof and clad exterior. I used wriggly tin for the unseen back walls too.
Neighbours a nightmare. Size of the room 6x4.5m meant I needed sizeable roof joists, unless I wanted to put a steel in. Hence needing to go to 3m
 
How about, stop the vertical planks short and use one or more rows of horizontal composite planks like a skirt at the bottom?
Interesting. May have to see if I can find a picture of it somewhere. As mentioned I'm on a hill so can be seen from the roads from 2 sides and the front. I'm sure I'd get away with lower parts not being timber
 
Mine's 6.5 x 3.6 with a 3.3m ridge and 2.3m eaves
 

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only just over the 1m from boundary nonsense
Y mine too. When I went for planning I illustrated how a pitched roof with 2.3m eaves a bit away from the boundary was going to be better for the fairly close neighbours than a 2.5m wall right on the boundary......
 

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