Building a shed office (help!)

SUESMITH_2

capeverde wrote: »

Think you meant OSB boards. With respect these boards are meant for protected construction and are not designed to be permanently exposed to the elements. Ok to line the insides with if you dont mind the look.

you're right, i did mean to type osb board - but in actual fact we didnt make it out of that but the stuff thats designed to be left outside blame it on too much pimms lol.

i was just making the point that if you're reasonably handy you can make it yourselves and be money saving

capeverde

SUESMITH wrote: »

you're right, i did mean to type osb board - but in actual fact we didnt make it out of that but the stuff thats designed to be left outside blame it on too much pimms lol.

i was just making the point that if you're reasonably handy you can make it yourselves and be money saving

ha ha, that pimms must be good, had a vision of you making it out of computer innards!!!

You are right, its not difficult, but there are time issues as well as machinery ones to get the correct finish. The most important thing is buying correctly. For example, we buy 4" x 2" tanalised and planed kiln dried redwood with all 4 corners eased for £ 1.20 per metre. Dont confuse this with cls, which finishes a lot smaller. We do buy a few thousand metres a week though. My 7" x 2" loglap cladding fully tanalised with grooves routed to stop cupping costs us £2.70 pm. With timber, going to your smaller woodyard rather than the nationals is far better. Its amazing what profiles that can machine for you at very little cost. A good place for cedar is woodpecker timber importers. They do shingles and many other cedar profiles at a good price. We deal with a guy called Ross who is helpful.

bustyb293

capeverde wrote: »

Heres one I built for a client a couple of weeks ago, 4.8m x 3.6m. Full cedar shingle roof. 4 x 2 studding, 50mm insulation, fully lined internally with tongue and groove cladding. opening windows and double glazed. £6k fitted.

Edit, we also used a 7"x2" loglap which is a hell of a lot thicker than the 15mm rubbish a lot of these mass producers use. pm me if anyone wants further info.

so what was the bottom line cost for that shed please?

Thank you

capeverde

We sold it for 6k, dont have the exact material costs. Under half though, but probably not by that much. Having said that though, we do buy cheaply as we purchase a lot of timber from one supplier.

Mr_Smith_3

capeverde wrote: »

We sold it for 6k, dont have the exact material costs. Under half though, but probably not by that much. Having said that though, we do buy cheaply as we purchase a lot of timber from one supplier.

Wow, well done :T

DIB_3

Hi,

There is a company that buils garden offices, one of my friends got one and he's really happy with it. He says they quality is very high and in two years he's had it, he just realizes that was the best decision to make. Have a look at their products and I think they can build an office garden according to your requirements.

Garden Living is the name of the company

Hope this works for you. Good luck!

chris.mac_2

Hi,

Have you considered building it yourself and saving a chunk of cash? It's really not as daunting as it sounds. With help from my Brother-in-law, I built my log cabin in 2 days and neither of us has any building skills worth speaking of!

I bought it from a company called Cabinville about 4yrs ago. It has roof felt shingles, 28mm thick panels (untreated), single glazed windows, locking doors and is approx 3mx3m in size. Total cost not including the block-paved base was approx £1500.

The whole transaction went without a hitch, and arrived in kit form on the agreed day, although it was on an artic. lorry and I had to help unload it, so best make sure the lorry can get close to your home!

They gave good advice re:flooring and wood treatment. A level and sound base IS a MUST -I already had a block-paved area to set it on and I used 50mm tanalised joists to set it off the floor. I treated it with varnish as soon as I was able, I chose the trebitt brand which cost a bit more but quoted a longer period between treatments.

Up till now its been used as the kids playhouse/storage area but I'd now like to make it into an office area/den.

I don't think insulation would be needed, a small heater should suffice in the winter -well the kids didn't moan when playing in there when it rained/snowed!

However I am interested in people's thought's on the costs to run power into the office. As that's my planned next step.

Chris