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OurHomeProjects - Karen
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I'm a 45+ woman who enjoys doing DIY and renovating our 1930's Arts & Crafts house with a little help (the brawn) from my husband. I have discovered muscles I didn't know I had and can hold my own carrying 2x8 4.8m lengths of wood and 18mm sheets of ply! Along with all my sloped landscaping projects, I particularly enjoyed building my own garden room/office (75%me+25%husband) during the 2020 UK Lockdown.
Thanks to the UA-cam generation, this makes building and creating things so easy and interesting - Thank you UA-camrs! Karen
Subscribe to see the following projects -
Gabion basket retaining wall
Complete steep driveway transformation
Slatted larch fence
Garden room / office - 7mx4.7m - videos underway!
Two tier raised deck
Extra large log store
Gravel patio and pergola
Garden pod and seating
Second garden room - golf room!
More details on each project - www.ourhomeprojects.co.uk
Follow current projects on ourhomeprojectsuk
Thanks to the UA-cam generation, this makes building and creating things so easy and interesting - Thank you UA-camrs! Karen
Subscribe to see the following projects -
Gabion basket retaining wall
Complete steep driveway transformation
Slatted larch fence
Garden room / office - 7mx4.7m - videos underway!
Two tier raised deck
Extra large log store
Gravel patio and pergola
Garden pod and seating
Second garden room - golf room!
More details on each project - www.ourhomeprojects.co.uk
Follow current projects on ourhomeprojectsuk
Part 3– GARDEN ROOM BUILD –Design & Cost -not SketchUp! | OFFICE | GYM | TV ROOM | STUDIO
DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband.
This episode explains how I used Microsoft Excel to design and fully cost my garden before it was built. If you want to learn more detail on how to do this yourself, I hope to get a tutorial up on my website this Spring.
BACKGROUND - During the first UK 2020 lockdown I decided to build my family a garden room. The teens had nowhere to hang out away from us parents and my husband was working from home indefinitely and needed office space. We have the space in the garden (even if it is sloped) - so why not build a multifunctional room! I had time on my hands (covid scuppered my business) and had talked about building one for years - now was my opportunity!
Check out my blog - ourhomeprojects.co.uk
PLEASE READ - Our Home Projects claims no liability for any injury or negative outcome resulting from projects, inspiration, ideas, instruction, or information taken from this platform. We are DIY-ers with no professional experience, learning and sharing as we go. Everyone's circumstances are different and you should consult the relevant professional for your own project. Follow manufacturer instructions when using power tools. Creating projects from this channel means you agree to do so at your own risk.
#gardenroom #gardenroombuild #gardenroomuk #gardenoffice #gardenworkshop #gardenroomideas #cabinbuild #gardenroomonaslope #gardenroombuilduk #gardenroomsuk #gardenroomdesign #excel #sketchup
This episode explains how I used Microsoft Excel to design and fully cost my garden before it was built. If you want to learn more detail on how to do this yourself, I hope to get a tutorial up on my website this Spring.
BACKGROUND - During the first UK 2020 lockdown I decided to build my family a garden room. The teens had nowhere to hang out away from us parents and my husband was working from home indefinitely and needed office space. We have the space in the garden (even if it is sloped) - so why not build a multifunctional room! I had time on my hands (covid scuppered my business) and had talked about building one for years - now was my opportunity!
Check out my blog - ourhomeprojects.co.uk
PLEASE READ - Our Home Projects claims no liability for any injury or negative outcome resulting from projects, inspiration, ideas, instruction, or information taken from this platform. We are DIY-ers with no professional experience, learning and sharing as we go. Everyone's circumstances are different and you should consult the relevant professional for your own project. Follow manufacturer instructions when using power tools. Creating projects from this channel means you agree to do so at your own risk.
#gardenroom #gardenroombuild #gardenroomuk #gardenoffice #gardenworkshop #gardenroomideas #cabinbuild #gardenroomonaslope #gardenroombuilduk #gardenroomsuk #gardenroomdesign #excel #sketchup
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Part 7- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Electrics & Wall Insulation | OFFICE | GYM | TV ROOM | STUDIO | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers the electrics and installing the wall insulation - time consuming and not much fun! I had an electrician do the wor...
Underfloor heating in a suspended wood floor | Insulation | Screed
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As part of our internal house renovations, we had underfloor heating installed across the whole of the downstairs. This is the method our builders used and it has been extremely effective. This has enabled us to easily keep the downstairs at a constant temperature throughout the year and has actually reduced our heating bill. The insulation is held in place with battens and a reasonable layer o...
Part 6- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Warm Roof Construction | OFFICE | GYM | TV ROOM | STUDIO | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers building the warm roof construction, from installing the roof joists, adding a vapour barrier, roof insulation and ...
Part 5- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Timber frame design & construction | OFFICE | GYM | STUDIO | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers timber frame wall design and tips on building the garden room walls. BACKGROUND - During the first UK 2020 lockdown...
Part 4- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Building and Insulating the Base | OFFICE | GYM | STUDIO | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers building the base from grade C24 2"x5" (45x120mm) treated timbers and fitting 120mm PIR insulation. BACKGROUND - Du...
Our Home Projects Intro- GABION WALL | GARDEN ROOM | RAISED DECKING + New projects planned for 2021!
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Welcome to our channel! Follow us on our journey renovating our 1930’s Arts and Crafts house in Hertfordshire, UK. Renovating both the inside and out has taken several years and is still a work in progress! The house definitely has its challenges being sited at the top of a hill. All projects have been the design in Karen’s eye and whilst she attempts most of the work herself, her husband is on...
Part 2- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Retaining Wall and Final Site Prep | OFFICE | GYM | TV ROOM | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers setting out post holes, building the retaining wall from 2x8 C4 treated wood rather than sleepers and preparation o...
Part 1- GARDEN ROOM BUILD -Clearing Site & Foundations | OFFICE | GYM | TV ROOM | STUDIO | CABIN
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DIY Garden Room - the garden room is 7.2x4.5m (externally), with a 2"x5" frame, 120mm PIR insulation, warm roof construction with Shou Sugi Ban larch cladding. We use it as a home office, gym and tv cinema room. Built 75% by Karen and 25% help from her husband. This episode covers digging out the slope by hand as I couldn't hire a digger due to the covid pandemic and building block piers to sup...
Retaining wall with gabion baskets | MORE PHOTOS FOUND! | Cost saving panel with gravel bags fill
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I found the missing photos which finish off my Part 1 video of the Steep Driveway series showing how the left section of the gabion retaining wall was built using a cost saving partition for the Scottish cobbles and a gravel bag in fill. The right hand 2m tall section was built with a recycled brick in fill. I would not recommend the gravel bag in fill on a wall over 1m tall as we had movement ...
SLATTED SCREEN FENCE | Horizontal privacy fence for your garden or yard | Quick how to build
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How we built a Siberian Larch slatted fence in our garden. Ideal to screen off the back garden from the front. It's still missing the slatted gate, but I hope to get that built this Spring and will post a quick video on that then. We have lots more completed home projects to publish and have several new ones on the go now. Please subscribe to get notifications of new uploads. It's really apprec...
STEEP DRIVEWAY BUILD | Gravel grids, Steep slope, Larch fence, Oak garage, Marshalls paving - Part 4
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Part 4/4 of my Steep Driveway series showing how we finished off the driveway with Core Drive gravel grids, Marshalls block paving, our DIY Larch slatted fence, Passmores oak fronted garage and laurel hedging. Larch fence 0:20 Passmores garage 1:43 Start of transformation 3:00 Core Drive gravel grids 4:36 Marshalls block paving 5:12 Amazing gravel pour! 5:36 Laurel hedging 6:36 Click here to wa...
DRIVEWAY GROUNDWORKS CONSTRUCTION | Retaining wall, Garage slab, Steep slope, Hardcore - Part 3
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Part 3 of my Steep Driveway series showing how we retained the lower part of the driveway, levelled the parking area and formed a garage slab. We had to get different contractors in to do various stages of the build as no-one wanted to take on the whole job. Easier ones out there I guess...! The challenges of having a house on a hill! Don't forget to check out 4:34 and 5:25 minutes for some fun...
GABION RETAINING WALL CONSTRUCTION with cost saving panels | Full Walkthrough with Audio - Part 2
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Part 2 of my Steep Driveway series showing in detail how we built a retaining wall from 2m high gabion baskets, using recycled brick as infill and a cost saver partition panel using Scottish cobbles. This project saved us a tonne of money by not having to dispose of our house renovation rubble and only buying a few bags of Scottish cobbles to complete the modern look. This cheap retaining wall ...
Retaining wall with gabion baskets | Cost saving panel with cobbles and recycled brick - Part 1
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Part 1 of my Steep Driveway series showing how we built a retaining wall from 2m high gabion baskets, using recycled brick as infill and a cost saver partition panel using Scottish cobbles. This saved us a tonne of money by not having to get rid of our house renovation rubble and only buying a few bags of Scottish cobbles to complete the modern look. Please be kind as I'm only just learning how...
I liked the part where the cat showed up
The ultimate mudslide/erosion defender
This is cool. Thanks for posting. Bonus points for being an awesome wife. Hubby is a lucky guy.
Looks so nice! Thank you for sharing these tips.
Recyclage des briques et économie en plus Super!
"Cost saving" is relative. Here on the Great Plains, where rocks are not laying around everywhere, they have to be hauled in by truck, at a cost of several dollars per rock.
Sorry to hear that. Even more of a reason to do something with a false face. Hope you find the solution for you.
Come to my place in Eastern Ontario Canada. I cannot put a simple stake into the ground without hitting a rock. That is why we gave up putting up a fence with posts and are going with the Gabion walls. LOL.
What hard-core substance did you use to sit the wall on top of please? Was it crackerdust or some.for. of gravel?
The digger dug down to solid ground so the baskets were laid on stabilising geotextile and gravel. Hope that helps.
what gauge of wire for gabions ?
I believe 3mm sides and 4mm face. You can see the details on the fine mesh metals website where we purchased them from.
So very well planned, thought out and effective. It has a good appearance. I want one. Well done!
Thanks for watching!
terrible job, omg! why do you still use ancient materials? & who laid the pipes so terribly? and the rest of the installation? so many mistakes it's hard to watch! tell me you're british without telling me you are british.
This was done 12 years ago so techniques and materials available have changed significantly over the last decade. Thanks for watching.
A well explained video of construction of your gabion wall; thank you for sharing. With a few years now past since the video was published, how is the wall doing now? I'd love to duplicate this construction method for a retaining wall of a greenhouse I hope to have one day, using the retaining wall as a thermal mass to help stabilize the indoor temperature during our cold winters. I like the fact that the walls are "semi-permanent" and could be moved if needed in the future, albeit with quite a bit of labor invested. The only concern I would have is how long the baskets would hold up before they completely rust out and need replacing. Did the supplier of your baskets have any advice about rust?
Thanks for watching. The baskets have been in for over 8 years now and no sign of rusting. You need to pay special care as to which ones you buy. These were designed to withstand use in waterways. Definitely do your research before buying. Your project sounds interesting- good luck!
Every man needs a lady like this!
Thanks for watching! 💪
Calimebigpapa, but does the lady even need a man?
This looks great! Thanks for making this video, it's very informative. I'm just getting the foundations ready for a smaller gabion retaining wall in my garden. It will be around 1.5m in height and around 4m long. I'm thinking of also laying part of my patio atop the gabion baskets. The part I'm not sure about at the moment is the drainage pipe. Did you have to angle the pipe, and where does it lead to? Thanks
There wasn’t much info out there when we did our project and the draining pipe was belt and braces really. As gabions are porous it’s not really needed, but it wasn’t a structure we could dismantle easily if we had a problem with drainage down the line so we put it in. It slopes downhill from left to right and is wrapped in geotextile. It just ends behind the right hand return/back of garage. We don’t ever see anything coming out! Hope that helps and good luck with your project!
Some of the best researched and assembled information I've heard, let alone ibserved as a compiled presentation, into video that makes it accessible for everyone on UA-cam. You should be a guest presenter to a college. Brilliant work and covers my concerns with landscaping.
Thank you so much for the wonderful review! Good luck with your project.
Unfortunately, I had to remove the previous version of this video due to copywrite issues (background music), so I've re-released this version with just voice audio.
Thanks so much for all these videos, been very helpful as I build a 6x3 garden room. Much respect
Thanks for watching and good luck with your project!
Wow, this is so informative and I am so impressed with this job. What a saving you both made. I'm based in Ireland, I was looking to get something similar but not as long as your wall and not knowing even a ball park figure of what it would cost so thank you for putting your costings up. Any kind of building materials is so much more expensive here than in the UK. Your end project is gorgeous as is your garage. Just a lovely job. Really well done, you must be very proud of it having put in sweat, blood and tears I'm sure.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! Glad it has given you some ideas. Good luck with your project!
awesome project. well done on the recycling of rubble. Genius!!. Cheers form NYC!!
Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment 😄
superb documentation @karen. Thanks! About to do the same build - 2x10m
Good luck with your project!
Just what we are looking for. Excellent
Glad it has given you some ideas, thanks for watching!
I love the look. Thank you for sharing this very informative video!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching.
Happy to see the beautiful house completed. Really wonderful, your husband and children must love the house
Thank you for watching. We use it all the time, it’s been taken over by teenagers 😂
Excellent work
Thank you for watching!
Three legged cat 🐈 yrs 😂❤
She’s a star isn’t she 😻
Not a fan.
Thanks for watching. I’m sure you’ll find the right solution for your project.
overall nice but i m worried the plastic weed fabric will degrade in a few years also your distance holders seem way too thin
The geotextile has a 50 year lifespan. Not sure what you mean by distance holders? Thanks for watching.
😅😅nie vergessen was sowas kostet. Vor allem das Füllmaterial. Wenn man eine bestimmte Farbe möchte.!!!!
Thanks for watching!
post should be 50% in 50%out
Yeh, I would agree with that if it were possible. Unfortunately, our soil is full of flint, pebbles and clay, so I could only dig so far. It was a short wall and the fact the surrounding 'soil' around the posts was rock solid I decided they would be ok. Thanks for watching.
Why stop? All that effort to stop the progress
Sorry, family life got in the way. I have all the recordings, just struggling to find any time to edit. Sorry
@@OurHomeProjects don’t apologise, the videos are amazing. Im starting something similar myself. Your videos are so good and informative
Thank you for this! I'm in the US and about to do this. Annoyingly this is not a popular method of retention here it seems, so finding a good gabion source has proven difficult. Nice work!
Ours were galfan coated to prevent early corrosion. They were advertised as suitable for waterways. Hope you manage to find something and good luck with your project.
Thank you for doing this with audio. Very helpful. Love the results!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Is there a need to take special care of the base? Like using a beating machine, dont know their name? And when there is slope I guess the digger would dig a straight groove, then geotextile, then small rocks , how much height, ?, so that it is easier to level the baskets?
Yes, the gabions need to be placed on firm solid ground. As the digger removed soil from the bank for us, he compacted the earth for us going back and forth across the site. The geotextile underneath also helps stabilise things.
no need to put fabric below. The earth does need to be solid. If it is, then you dont need a compactor (beating machine) if not, depending on the soil just dig down a bit. Most soil types will be solid so place the bottom gabion down. Fabric is just weed control, quite useless for gabions. Dirt in any set up will build up, plants will attach and grow, and actually the whole purpose of a gabion is to do so, as its quite strong by it selves, plant roots will reinforce it for long term. Alternatively you also may want or need to slope a gabion or any form of wall retainment. If your soil is very weak, pure earth or something you will not have any choice. Doesnt matter what the soil type is when you place anything retaining wise at a minimum of 45 degrees. It will almost support anything and everything even with water ingress/pressure and additional weight placed on top like a huge building. Greets from the Netherlands. The land of retaining walls hahahah (if not well, we will die). p.s. stone weighs allot. It is why gabions work. Down pressure. Bricks weigh nothing compared to stone. If you want to go cheap, prepare to pay for it.
Excellent video, really detailed explanation of how to correctly build a warm flat roof. Watched loads of videos done by professionals who dont show the 1st steps like you have here. Half of them dont use a vapour barrier either so its very confusing and would lead to the roof failing. Thanks for uploading, the build looks fantastic. Well done! 👍
Thanks for watching. I’m not a builder myself but pieced this all together from some other videos I watched at the time. This process seemed to make sense to be scientifically! Good luck with your project 🙂
Having done this work, I must say your information was well presented and complete. Brilliantly done both as a project and as a tutorial.
Thanks so much for leaving such a lovely comment 🙂
One of the most informative videos I’ve ever seen on UA-cam - Thank you and congratulations on your courage, commitment, fantastic outcome!
Thanks for watching. Good luck with your project!
This is fantastic Karen, I’m also UK based was wondering how you found your recycled bricks a little of Google searches just bring up reclaimed bricks thanks for the great video
Thanks for watching. Have you seen my second video? Has a lot more info and may help. ua-cam.com/video/zIwbbXTy25A/v-deo.htmlsi=XNIoqSDzhX6GwzFp
And here’s me, an 18st 6’1 lump, dreading digging out a 15sqm area of soft soil by hand because it’s close to a few trees while you’ve basically opened your own miniature quarry by hand - don’t I feel put to shame lol. Grand job by the way.
Lol, it did feel like that 😂 Now would be the perfect time to do yours before the soil dries up. I started in June iirc and it had been dry a good few weeks, so have a go soon whilst it’s still easy 😂💪
I have seen a couple or three videos on creating gabion walls, and yours is certainly the most informative and ticks all the boxes. Lots of good info here. Edit: the end with the geotex on top with the plants. Great idea. :)
Thanks watching and leaving a comment!
You made so many Inteligent decisions to mitigate issues, as they arose. So much better a learning video than watching a pro and his crew. I love your annunciation and vocabulary. I understood everything you said. Lovely voice as well!
Aww thank you! Good luck with your project!
Thank you very much for sharing this project 🥇❤ we are planning to do the same and it has helped us a lot. I thought we could skip the dry screed.🥇❤️
It’s the dry screed that spreads the heat under the wood flooring. If you don’t add that then it will only be warm where the pipe is. HTH. Thanks for watching.
@@OurHomeProjects Hi Karen, thank you for your kind answer.
I am not familiar with the PUG system but it looks very similar. We used a thin layer of a very dry mix. Good luck with your project!
oh, and the series has finished. i'm sorry it has ended so abruptly and hope all is ok.... :(
Sorry Mark, I ended up getting a full time job and not much time to do video editing. I would like to finish the series at some point. Thanks for the comments and for watching 🙂
@@OurHomeProjects no worries, i'm just glad to hear that you're well. congratulations on your new job and all my best
amazing job, very inspiring thank you for sharing
It was a hard project but well worth the effort. So satisfying building something from scratch.
My plan is to define a 35' x 40' parking area with diy gabions made from hog panels sourced from tractor supply. We're trying clean up some rubble on the property. I don't feel like paying someone to haul it away and I love the idea of recycling the material into something useful and I like the idea of hiding it in plain sight. It will definitely cut down on the amount of new stone that I have to purchase
Sounds great! A suggestion would be to make sure whatever wire you use for the baskets doesn’t have a short lifespan and won’t corrode in a few years 👍
Excellent video Karen. Very easy to follow. You've given me some great ideas and above all the inspiration to crack on. Just hope I can source the gabions here in Italy. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and good luck with your project!
Un mur en gabion plus de hauteur
Thanks for watching!
After 3 years Karen, do you mind making a video or leave a comment on how is the Gabion you've built is holding up? Thanks
What a great idea! I’ll do that. It’s almost 8 years now.. still looks good.
Removed wonderful trees that took decades to grow. Could’ve just pruned them.
It was a hard decision, but they had not been looked after by the previous owner and blocked too much light and were making the bank unstable (hence the new retaining wall). Unfortunately you cannot prune fully grown evergreen trees as they just leave bald brown areas and do not refill. They were replaced with beech hedging which is growing well (many more than the 3 evergreen trees). Thank you for your concern.
Hi what's the thickness of the chipboards. Are tiles still fine on the chipboard??
Hi, unfortunately I don’t know the thickness of the chipboard. An anti-movement mesh was laid on top before the tiles. The tiles haven’t cracked, but the grout has in places.
@@OurHomeProjects what's the depth of your floor joists. Mine are 100mm and told not to use screed as joists are not that strong. Use spreader plates on top of insulation.
I believe ours are 200mm as they span quite a distance. The house was built in the 1930’s.
@@OurHomeProjectsdid you use Pex pipe or Pert. And is it 12mm or 16mm? Do you feel you should have a radiator installed aswell as pipes only heat up the floor and not the room.
I can’t answer your first questions, but we do find the UFH provides an even comfortable heating of the room. The downside is it takes a few hours to get up to temperature as UFH uses a lower temp water than radiators. We enjoy having clear wall space free from radiators, but that is personal preference.
Excellent video!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
DONT cut joists, put breathable membrain at bottom or over each joist make a pocket then put insulation inbetween joists , like you have done put more battons . wood sub floor down , t and g floor boards p5 , sub floor . Then put pipes and stuff on insulation board then screed if weight can take it or get egg shell trays, and tile on that .