Please help me build a out house!

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Ok guys heres the thing,

at the bottom of my garden i have a small section of hard standing ( 5m x 8.5m big) which is separated from the rest of the garden by a 4 foot fence, the previous owner used to keep his motor home there.

now i want to build a little house/shed/garage sort of confinement there,
to be used as a gym/dojo or something around those lines or maybe even a photo studio, who knows.

i need to build walls and a roof of some sort, and padded floor and get electricity down there ( its at the bottom of my 30m garden )

but the thing is i have no clue of where to start.

i was thinking i need to make a wooden frame, but how to i get the posts into the conctrete paving slabs that are already there?

for a roof i was thinking of the corregated plastic, but havent got a clue about the walls?

any help or piont into the right direction would be great.

or do you think i should just abandon the idea as i will just make a pigs ear of it? :thinking:

cheers :D
 
i wish i could do something like this, i would build you a great wood shed :D
dont one for my grandad, decking for my mom and redone all the stud walling in my dads office building. i just love woodwork
 
I would raise it up off the ground on breeze blocks so that the air can circulate underneath, for one reason, and the posts would rot quicker if they were touching the ground, and you never know you might get small animals finding shelter under there, perfect models
 
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so what sort of wood would be best as a floor?

i was thinking of making the hardstanding the floor and just building roof and walls
 
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Can I use some bad language?
Save.
Buy !!
Save and buy a self assembly one. There's some great sheds about.
You know you deserve it !!
 
just buy the shed it will have Pine rafters and pine boards floor sides and roof and easy to assemble
 
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davenjulie said:
you should be able to get a good shed for about £400 or so maybe cheaper for a 10' x 8'
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You will get a shed but I doubt it will be a good one. You need good strong framing to make the whole thing firm. I use 3"x11/2" in the ones I build.
 
i think i need to make a robust wooden frame then put a plastic roofing sheet on, then maybe wooden fencing on the sides? then try and seal it up?! pmsl!!! what a creation.

it doesnt need to be pretty cause you cant see it from teh house. ill tell you what ill put some pics up!
 
I wanted an office at the bottom of my garden so I put in the base then got a local shed company to build me a double glazed 4m x 3m 'shed'. I insulated/wired/floored/alarmed it and have now got a nice warm office during the day & extra 'kids room' at night.

Before I had the office built I had to build a concrete retaining wall with sleepers on top, break up the old path, remove the veggie-plot and re-turf the garden. Now all I've got to do is build the deck in front of it :help:



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Thats my shed to the left , MrsG keeps guinea pigs in the one to the right :shrug:
 
ok!, heres the photos of my garden and where the hard standing is.

the ringed section is where it is behing the bushes, so its well secluded so it doesnt need to be the prettiest thing.

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and this is the hard standing, sorry about the growth!

but this is like the 3rd time i entered the area in the 5 months ive lived here!
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what im thinking about now is making a solid wooden frame , attaching 8 foot fence panels all around it , and a plastic roof like the one below,putting a rasied MDF floor in. running an extension cable down the garden for power!?


what do you think?

shall i just get back on my horse and flee for the next town? yeee ha!
 
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there are loads of companies on t'net and even ebay that sell decent sheds, and deliver em.
i know , i sometimes have to deliver the f******g things.
by the time youve done buying all the timber n stuff, it probably works out more economical to buy one.
although at my last house, i bought a second hand one from a neighbour.
asome tarting up , but it was cheap.
def agree about raisng it above the ground to stop rot.
suppose you could build a framework from 2in x 3 in and cover in 8 ft x 4 ft sheets of ply , but you'd have to felt it, or treat it with a good preservative .
 
I wouldn't put an MDF floor in.

Chipboard is best, it's strong, won't turn to mush when wet etc etc etc.

Don't forget, that if you do actually wire it into the house electrics, really, you need to get the local council involved, and they will have to check the wiring and all that i think until they'll allow you to do it, but if you do it and don't tell them then there is nothing they can do about it, especially as i hope you'll use a fully qualified electrician. (It's the same as if you're changing the electrics in the house, you need to let the council know)

Oh, and i thought you were talking about an outside lavvy when i read the topic title!
 
If you go to a firm that makes fences, they should do you a good deal on 3x3 uprights .Mark off the floor and bolt fencining brackets down put the uprights in .Screw 4x2 or nail around bottom and top also where doors and window will be.Place cross members in any one you know has done decking can help. Use floor boards for the outside and half inch ply inside and roof(B&Q) then felt it.Failing this a pre built from the fence people. By us they will make to measure build it and put extra floor supports for using weights or heavy storage.AS for electrics always use a pro its worth it.
Good Luck
 
One I did last year. Sorry about the pic quality. Is it something like that you plan to have.
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You can buy bolt on "bases" for fence posts to slot into but I doubt that a paving slab would be anywhere near "strong or stable" enough to hold a post. the best option if you don't want to concrete the whole area is lift a slab in the corner of the planned shed, dig out, fill with hard core sink in a post and re-concrete to slab level and repeat as required to get the desired anount of corner posts and door frames then nail on tongue and groove or ship-lap timber for the out side.
don't forget to"pitch" the roof bearers to allow the water to run off. guttering and downn-pipe ( to a water butt if you don't want to do "drainage") is optional, that'll get you started :thumbs:
 
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