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Thinking about building a new shed / man cave/ garden room this spring.
Broadly speaking it's to be around 3*2m with the long side aspect facing the garden having either sliding or bi folding doors opening up as much of the façade to the garden as possible.
For construction method, would OSB board be suitable to provide structureal strength to the walls? I was thinking the wall construction beimg being external cladding in nice timber, OSB for wall strength, insulation then internal cladding with damp proof course added where appropriate.
This all held up some 100*100 posts on corners and vertical battens every 1000mm
Seem reasonable?
You may find reading [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-turboferret-shed ]my shed thread[/url] useful or provide some ideas. I used OSB but also used a structural frame.
Cheers, Rich
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/wca-shed-thread
I made each of the sides a multiple of the standard wood lengths so there was minimal cutting and waste.
The opening sides are both made from two panels which line up when the door is pulled open so the windows align and you get maximum openess
Mancave decor in the garage
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/latest-man-cave-project
If you are considering OSB and insulation, then I would go the whole hog and do a proper rain screen.
i.e.
External cladding
Vertical battens (to provide air gap)
Rain screen tyvek-type membrane stuff (building paper)
OSB (or sheathing ply)
Studs/wall frame
Insulation between studs
Internal cladding (ply/plasterboard or whatever)
3x2m isn't so big that cost will escalate much.
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That is basically the construction of every house in America/NZ/Canada.
You can scale the timbers down a bit. 38x63mm timber minimum depending on how thick you want the insulation to be.
Mine is 2x4 (without all the insulation/osb/membrane stuff as it's just a shed) and it feels like it's built to last 30 years.
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/shed-build-%E2%80%93-things-i%E2%80%99m-learning
BM - building this summer.
Have you ever seen a flat osb board? Me neither.
I'd say you defo need a framework to fix the osb to.
howabout using SIP's?
I'm a big fan of DIY but for that size it might be worth looking at a kit. There's some pretty decent ones out there with insulation. Often cheaper for the kit than you can buy the wood to DIY it.
As above. Some of the kits are very reasonable and if I factored in time for build Costa and materials I just can't get close. However what I do do is put them together in my own manner which may mean the odd bit of strengthening work here and there.
Whatever keeps the building inspector happy 🙂the odd bit of strengthening work here and there.
If you look at insulation separate make sure you look at seconds and co.
http://www.secondsandco.co.uk/#!stock-boards-individual-boards/cka
Just got and installed a delivery from these guys, excellent value for money. As suggested above they do have sipps in quite regularly.
Build it out of sips panel's, sips floor, sips walls, sips roof, add some velfac windows then clad it in shiplap, bauclad and alucobond.
Sorted.
If I were to go down the off-the-shelf route and buy a shed. Has anyone increased the size of their door without major remod work?
+1 for secondsandco. Used them to source insulation panels for floor insulation, delivered to my house. Looked exactly the same as the stuff in B&Q warehouse and, despite the caveat that seconds would be a mix, I got 80m2 all the same thickness and branded.
yeah. My father in law bought a kit second hand, never been built.Has anyone increased the size of their door without major remod work?
Had to move the door from the end to the side and double the size (to get his motor bike in) and make the whole shed 10 cm narrower.
We just made a couple of little jigs and only had to buy two new router cutters.
The shed was meant to take a day to build. Took us two. Including a proper roof (instead of felt) and a trip to the diy place once we'd worked out what we needed. Thing is still standing now, been up 9 or 10 years.
Been modded quite a bit since. Never needed anything doing to the original structure.