Garden room overhang

Doozergirl

Look, there's a phrase. "You get what you pay for" and there's no joy for me in this but I'm praying that you have paid for what you have got. 

If your 'builder' is a member of the Federation of Master Builders then I'd urge you to get in touch with their disputes service, but everything that you have is not the work of even a passable builder and I don't believe they'd pass the checks.  

Your room is built on no foundations.  The front doesn't appear to be resting on much at all but the back is just 'packed' and will rot very quickly.  What have you agreed with these people? 

Your rear soffit is a piece of tongue and groove cladding.  

I am not a tradesperson but I can personally cut a marginally straighter line AND I ran a building company for a long time.  I know exactly how a garden room should be built.   I'm struggling to see any quality of skill or knowledge there.  Your product isn't the highest quality, but the fitting job is going to see it collapse before it ever needed to.   It's a bodge.  You'd build it better yourself with a bit of research and care.  

millie

FreeBear said:

millie said:

If it is within 2 metres of the boundary {which it is) you need planning permission. We have had a few by us do this and it did not come within the permitted development rules.

Depends on the height and whether permitted development rights have been removed. There may also be covenants limiting what can be built in the garden, but that is a separate

issue to planning.

@c@cazasjohnston You are the client paying for the build. You get to decide how close it is the the fence. So what if it took the builder to level the base first time round. It is going to take him a lot longer to do it now that the walls & roof is up.

Thanks. I forgot it was permitted as long as it was below a certain height

cazasjohnston

The foundations are horrible, we said we will get our landscaper to lay slabs and he told us there is no need and he will do it, he said he needed 15 slabs! I went out and bought 15, when I came home from work I said why haven’t you used the slabs, he said he has he only need 15 pieces! They are not even fully under.
we have paid a lot and ended up going with the highest quote we got has he has great reviews n

MikeJXE

That's a disgrace.

No way you can slide the shed anywhere, it needs dismantling and setting on a proper base in the right position.

I would have stopped him at that stage as not acceptable 

Now I wouldn't pay him till it's put right 

Section62

cazasjohnston said:

The foundations are horrible....

I think 'dire' would be the more accurate terminology

You will need to get someone competent to put down a proper base.  Broken slabs sat on turf will start sinking leaving you with a partially unsupported floor, or 'bounce', or any of a variety of other defects.

FreeBear

Section62 said:

cazasjohnston said:

The foundations are horrible....

I think 'dire' would be the more accurate terminology

I'm using stronger words, many starting with F...

And I agree, it needs a proper base. Whether it can be moved without some dismantling will depend on how well it has been put together. It might be possible to jack up each corner and put skates underneath and slide it across some scaffold planks.

cazasjohnston

It gets worse now the rubbish has been taken away. I want to cry

MikeJXE

There is really no point getting upset, mistakes have been made on both sides

The builder making a shoddy job from the start and the customer allowing it to continue 

It was evident that things were going wrong as soon as the base was constructed and should have been rectified at that point

Now you need a plan of action to cure the problem even if that means dismantling and re-erecting 

Unless the neighbour accepts it 

Jonboy_1984

If I were the neighbours I would have a gutter and waterbutt fitted on it by now

Reddleman79

That last photo says it all. The guy shouldn't be paid in washers! A garden room near me had a base containing about 4 cu metres of concrete with reinforced mesh laid in and floated flat and level. I've just built an allotment shed, and even that has a continuous level brick plinth all the way round with DPC between the bricks and the base, with ground anchors to prevent any wind damage. That room of yours need a proper base.