By the seaside...
As Matt has been posting about his Monkey World Garage project, I thought I'd document my summer Shedzilla project. I've mentioned it a few time during the summer and one or two people have asked for pictures so....
It all started because my garage felt like was getting a bit crammed with car, tools, garden furniture/equipment and other stuff - you get an idea in this pic
So I decided that a shed to use as a workshop and for storage would be a good idea but, me being me, a boring 6x8 box from B&Q wouldn't quite cut it as a challenge
I also had an awkward triangular area behind the garage that was used as a general dumping ground and thought that it would be a good idea to incorporate that as well. In addition my next-door neighbour has been saying that she'll replace her eyesore of a fence for about five years and we've got a bit fed up with looking at it so I thought that I could kill two birds with one stone by hiding her fence…
I checked with our local planning dept and was told that I could build virtually any sort of shed I wanted - main restrictions I had to abide by was eaves height because it was within 1m of the boundry and keeping under a certain total square meterage if I wanted to avoid the building regs people being involved
I started off with foundations just inside the fence plus a rectangle of roughly 2.9m x 2.6m of shed area and added a few courses of engineering bricks to make a dwarf wall base - the long wall of the shed that runs alongside the fence worked out as roughly 7.3m (24 feet
)
Block wall across the rear path around the garage
Then added some DPC and bolted 4x2 sole plates to the top of the dwarf wall to fix the shed walls to
Part of what I wanted to do was build a new fence inside our boundry so I wanted to make the neighbour's side of the shed wall look nice - the added complication was that I wanted to do all this without disturbing her fence so the 7.3m section of wall was built as a standalone single piece of 4x2 studwork, clad with 12mm ply and featheredged on the neighbour’s side
This was then manhandled (by 8 of us) into place and secured - I built the rest of the non-shed wall 'fence' in the same way so that it matches nicely.
Added wall plates to take the suspended wooden floor and started on the other walls of the shed - again 4x2 studwork with a 12mm ply skin – you can see the way the ply skin overlaps the dwarf wall
Angled studs at the top of the right-hand wall are to allow for a dual pitch roof with an off-centre ridge
Once all the walls were up, rafters were added and the walls were covered with breathable membrane
Then it was time to start adding 2 layers of 12mm ply for a roof - I would have used a single layer of 18mm ply for the roof and floor but, as I was using 12mm to skin the inside and outside walls, I decided that there would be less wastage to order 12mm for everything and use 2 layers for roof and floor (nice and solid :lol: )
Then add a layer of non-breathable membrane to the roof as a temporary covering until the torch-on felt goes on. This also shows where the 'fence' part has now been featheredged on our side - with 4x2 studs, a 12mm ply skin and featheredge on each side the fence ended up nearly 6" thick and I had to custom-make a capping rail from 6x2 timber :lol:
Popped in a couple of double-glazed windows and a upvc door. The felt underlay and first of the torch-on layers were added to the roof to weatherproof it. Added the timber detailing around the windows/door and corners and started featheredging
Featheredging all finished, and upvc facia added
That's as far as I've got for now, next stage is to strip the mineral felt from the garage, replace the rotten wooden garage facia boards with upvc and put a new layer of mineral felt that covers the garage and Shedzilla as a single top layer. Inside still needs the floor, rockwool insulation and the inner skin, lighting , sockets, workbench, shelving etc. etc.
It all started because my garage felt like was getting a bit crammed with car, tools, garden furniture/equipment and other stuff - you get an idea in this pic
So I decided that a shed to use as a workshop and for storage would be a good idea but, me being me, a boring 6x8 box from B&Q wouldn't quite cut it as a challenge
I also had an awkward triangular area behind the garage that was used as a general dumping ground and thought that it would be a good idea to incorporate that as well. In addition my next-door neighbour has been saying that she'll replace her eyesore of a fence for about five years and we've got a bit fed up with looking at it so I thought that I could kill two birds with one stone by hiding her fence…I checked with our local planning dept and was told that I could build virtually any sort of shed I wanted - main restrictions I had to abide by was eaves height because it was within 1m of the boundry and keeping under a certain total square meterage if I wanted to avoid the building regs people being involved
I started off with foundations just inside the fence plus a rectangle of roughly 2.9m x 2.6m of shed area and added a few courses of engineering bricks to make a dwarf wall base - the long wall of the shed that runs alongside the fence worked out as roughly 7.3m (24 feet
)
Block wall across the rear path around the garage
Then added some DPC and bolted 4x2 sole plates to the top of the dwarf wall to fix the shed walls to
Part of what I wanted to do was build a new fence inside our boundry so I wanted to make the neighbour's side of the shed wall look nice - the added complication was that I wanted to do all this without disturbing her fence so the 7.3m section of wall was built as a standalone single piece of 4x2 studwork, clad with 12mm ply and featheredged on the neighbour’s side
This was then manhandled (by 8 of us) into place and secured - I built the rest of the non-shed wall 'fence' in the same way so that it matches nicely.
Added wall plates to take the suspended wooden floor and started on the other walls of the shed - again 4x2 studwork with a 12mm ply skin – you can see the way the ply skin overlaps the dwarf wall
Angled studs at the top of the right-hand wall are to allow for a dual pitch roof with an off-centre ridge
Once all the walls were up, rafters were added and the walls were covered with breathable membrane
Then it was time to start adding 2 layers of 12mm ply for a roof - I would have used a single layer of 18mm ply for the roof and floor but, as I was using 12mm to skin the inside and outside walls, I decided that there would be less wastage to order 12mm for everything and use 2 layers for roof and floor (nice and solid :lol: )
Then add a layer of non-breathable membrane to the roof as a temporary covering until the torch-on felt goes on. This also shows where the 'fence' part has now been featheredged on our side - with 4x2 studs, a 12mm ply skin and featheredge on each side the fence ended up nearly 6" thick and I had to custom-make a capping rail from 6x2 timber :lol:
Popped in a couple of double-glazed windows and a upvc door. The felt underlay and first of the torch-on layers were added to the roof to weatherproof it. Added the timber detailing around the windows/door and corners and started featheredging
Featheredging all finished, and upvc facia added
That's as far as I've got for now, next stage is to strip the mineral felt from the garage, replace the rotten wooden garage facia boards with upvc and put a new layer of mineral felt that covers the garage and Shedzilla as a single top layer. Inside still needs the floor, rockwool insulation and the inner skin, lighting , sockets, workbench, shelving etc. etc.
Gotta love a solid Victorian washhouse for modern storage of man stuff 8) Add a whacking great 6m-square garage and that's the cars and associated clutter safely dry-stored, too 
But, as #285 was bought as a direct replacement for #097 and #168, it is really 2alps in one, so for now I'll stick 