Hi everyone. Going to start off my workshop build thread here. At the moment its still just a design (that keeps evolving!) but I'm collecting materials steadily and hoping to at least get it started this summer.
Our garden is long and thin. About 25mx4.5m. So to keep under 30sqm internal floor area I plan to have a concrete slab of 9mx3.6m at the very end of the garden. That should give me a little bit of working space around each of the three boundary elevations, which to me seems easier than dealing with building up elevations that can never be reached again or lifting fencepanels etc.
Couple of notes:
- I've got planning permission (only needed so I could have a slighlty higher internal height than permitted would allow)
- I plan to clad in non-combustible, use mineralwool insulation & slate roof - all to satisfy the 15-30 sqm building control non combustible part of things.
This is the site plan:
So because its long and narrow, I plan to build based on the original Mikes way design of a single plinth of bricks (i.e. without the blockwork inner). This is because 3 of the elevations wont be visible, so the aesthetics of the cladding lining up dont matter to me as much as the extra width internally. the eaves are 2.3m , ridge height 3.7m.
It will almost certainly change a bit, but here is how its looking right now:
There will be a garage roller shutter drops down infront of the doors. I already have the roller shutter, 2nd hand off ebay. The doors I'm going to have made to fit by a local company once the building is finished.
My first major question is about the concrete slab. (This is the only bit of the build that I rather not do myself, but getting someone to quote to do it for me is much easier said than done!). Based on previous build threads and looking at nearly half the internet I settled on this as adequate for a workshop, but the gremlins always creep in and make me wonder if it needs to be bigger, thicker, stronger!, then the next day I think - nah its more than fine. This design is for 150mm thick slab, thickened to 250mm at the perimeter with mesh throughout and adds up to about 5.8m3 of concrete. So what do people think of that?.
Our garden is long and thin. About 25mx4.5m. So to keep under 30sqm internal floor area I plan to have a concrete slab of 9mx3.6m at the very end of the garden. That should give me a little bit of working space around each of the three boundary elevations, which to me seems easier than dealing with building up elevations that can never be reached again or lifting fencepanels etc.
Couple of notes:
- I've got planning permission (only needed so I could have a slighlty higher internal height than permitted would allow)
- I plan to clad in non-combustible, use mineralwool insulation & slate roof - all to satisfy the 15-30 sqm building control non combustible part of things.
This is the site plan:
So because its long and narrow, I plan to build based on the original Mikes way design of a single plinth of bricks (i.e. without the blockwork inner). This is because 3 of the elevations wont be visible, so the aesthetics of the cladding lining up dont matter to me as much as the extra width internally. the eaves are 2.3m , ridge height 3.7m.
It will almost certainly change a bit, but here is how its looking right now:
There will be a garage roller shutter drops down infront of the doors. I already have the roller shutter, 2nd hand off ebay. The doors I'm going to have made to fit by a local company once the building is finished.
My first major question is about the concrete slab. (This is the only bit of the build that I rather not do myself, but getting someone to quote to do it for me is much easier said than done!). Based on previous build threads and looking at nearly half the internet I settled on this as adequate for a workshop, but the gremlins always creep in and make me wonder if it needs to be bigger, thicker, stronger!, then the next day I think - nah its more than fine. This design is for 150mm thick slab, thickened to 250mm at the perimeter with mesh throughout and adds up to about 5.8m3 of concrete. So what do people think of that?.
I found the building easier than trying to draw it on the computer
