Hi all, I have moved to a house that used to have a steel framed/tin clad workshop mounted on a concrete slab. The slab measures just over 12x8 metres and is well over 18 inches thick, seen from the edges I can expose.
I have had a couple of different builders round for some advice, ball park quotes etc but they all want to go for a timber framed building with maybe one or two block courses on the slab.
Personally I would prefer a full block construction with traditional tiled roof on trusses. My longer term goal is to convert it to a dwelling, albeit a guest annexe/holiday let.
I see two options, the block and render build may be too much for the slab, or a timber "log lap"? construction with more than likely a shorter life expectancy - I stand to be corrected here...
What does everyone think, I appreciate there may be a risk with breaking the slab with over a thousand blocks added to the edges, even if I allow say 500mm from the edge, but the timber solution has me less confident of seeing me into retirement.
Cheers in advance.
I have had a couple of different builders round for some advice, ball park quotes etc but they all want to go for a timber framed building with maybe one or two block courses on the slab.
Personally I would prefer a full block construction with traditional tiled roof on trusses. My longer term goal is to convert it to a dwelling, albeit a guest annexe/holiday let.
I see two options, the block and render build may be too much for the slab, or a timber "log lap"? construction with more than likely a shorter life expectancy - I stand to be corrected here...
What does everyone think, I appreciate there may be a risk with breaking the slab with over a thousand blocks added to the edges, even if I allow say 500mm from the edge, but the timber solution has me less confident of seeing me into retirement.
Cheers in advance.