For a full breakdown of DIY garden room costs click here: thediyfix.com/garden-room-materials-download/ Also, would anyone like plans? If enough people ask in the comments, I will create detailed garden room plans to follow and build your own.
electrician here. holes drilled as we have to leave distance between the wood for structural stability and incase someone puts a screw in. if we drilled every joist at the top or bottom, the wood becomes structurally weak. Engineers or designers dont scale up sizes in the assumption we are going to weaken every joist. I understand your point its a small summer house but in the case of a house or something holding weight the wood sizes are designed for purpose and the electrician has a regs book to follow unfortunately
Yeah I know there are regs to follow. My biggest complaint with the wires were the ones on the left hand side around 250mm from the noggins. These could have easily been tighter to the noggin, that way I could have notched a small amount out of the end of the PIR, as opposed to cutting a channel out of the back. This just made the insulation harder to fit without breaking it. Either way its not a big issue, Just one of those things you only think about after the work has been done
Yeah, there is plenty of ventilation as the cladding has a large air gap beind it and there is small gab between the wall and edge of the sofit, so I dont see trapped moisture ever being an issue
I was talking about the roof . As there can be an issue with the dew point of cold outside meeting warm air in the building . Sides won’t be a problem as like you say plenty of air flow through the sides
No Matt. The floor has a DPM between the base and the timber. Also, the flooring is weatherproof and my flooring is rubber, so in my opinion it doesn't need it.
Hi. Great guidance video. Just a question on the bolts in the lintel. Did you just cut these short before installing vapour barrier and plasterboard? Thanks
Hi James, I purchased the insulation, plasterboard and many of the other materials from Building materials thediyfix.com/building-materials. The vapour barrier was from Wickes, I originally bought one from Screwfix but it was smaller than advertised and very poor quality so I returned it
For a full breakdown of DIY garden room costs click here: thediyfix.com/garden-room-materials-download/
Also, would anyone like plans? If enough people ask in the comments, I will create detailed garden room plans to follow and build your own.
Do you remember what this entire build cost by any chance?
Just over £7k. The exact price is at the end of the main timelapse video of this entire build
electrician here. holes drilled as we have to leave distance between the wood for structural stability and incase someone puts a screw in. if we drilled every joist at the top or bottom, the wood becomes structurally weak. Engineers or designers dont scale up sizes in the assumption we are going to weaken every joist. I understand your point its a small summer house but in the case of a house or something holding weight the wood sizes are designed for purpose and the electrician has a regs book to follow unfortunately
Yeah I know there are regs to follow. My biggest complaint with the wires were the ones on the left hand side around 250mm from the noggins. These could have easily been tighter to the noggin, that way I could have notched a small amount out of the end of the PIR, as opposed to cutting a channel out of the back. This just made the insulation harder to fit without breaking it.
Either way its not a big issue, Just one of those things you only think about after the work has been done
This is classed as a hybrid roof , this is the way I installed mine . It should be ok as along as there is no air gap between the PIR and OSB ,
Yeah, there is plenty of ventilation as the cladding has a large air gap beind it and there is small gab between the wall and edge of the sofit, so I dont see trapped moisture ever being an issue
I was talking about the roof . As there can be an issue with the dew point of cold outside meeting warm air in the building . Sides won’t be a problem as like you say plenty of air flow through the sides
Hi, did you add vapour barrier or breathable membrane to the floor?
No Matt. The floor has a DPM between the base and the timber. Also, the flooring is weatherproof and my flooring is rubber, so in my opinion it doesn't need it.
Did you leave an air gap in your roof for ventilation 🤔🤔
Yes, the cladding has an air gap beind it and there is also a small gap between the wall and the soffit. This means there should be plenty of airflow
Hi. Great guidance video. Just a question on the bolts in the lintel. Did you just cut these short before installing vapour barrier and plasterboard? Thanks
Yeah I cut them back with an angle grinder.
If I did it again I would counter sink the nuts as I did still have to notch out the plasterboard
Do you recommend anywhere to get the insulation and vapour barrier from?
Hi James, I purchased the insulation, plasterboard and many of the other materials from Building materials thediyfix.com/building-materials.
The vapour barrier was from Wickes, I originally bought one from Screwfix but it was smaller than advertised and very poor quality so I returned it
@@thediyfix That's brilliant. I've got my timber from a local builders merchant but was unsure about the rest. So that's really helpful.