A new interlocking timber garage?

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Looks like we may be moving house shortly, will need a garage and have the space, has anyone bought/built one of these or similar interlocking timber garages, single, double or triple?
Any advice on best buy, wall thickness (44 or 66mm) roof covering etc. Thinking the timber may look more rural and be better insulated than brick/block.


https://www.quick-garden.co.uk/garage-wooden-900x6...



Thanks for any advice

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Thanks
i think I've seen Warwick stuff before. Maybe bought shed of them some years back, I note that is a timber frame, clad, rather than T&G interlocked together lengths of timber.
TH

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TooMany2cvs said:

Skyedriver said:

rather than T&G interlocked together lengths of timber.

Ah, you mean a log cabin type of thing?

Yes, that's the sort of thing except the "logs" aren't rounded but square (rectangular) cut.

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Lotobear said:

I built this garage extension from scratch - 175mm thick C35 raft with perimter toe and A142 mesh (2 post lift friendly).

Walls out of 100mm x 50mm studs and roof 225 x 75 purlins with 150 x 50 rafters faced with Tyvex and vertical battens. Western red cedar cladding and a Welsh slate roof.

I used tanalised log board on the back elevation as the red cedar is very expensive.

Made it up as I went along. I designed the roof 'open' so I could stack two cars on the lift

Much better from a condensation point of view in winter

That's really quite pretty, either the WRC cladding, slate or grey woodwork.
Is the cladding T&G or overlap?
May I ask roughly how much it cost in materials.
I built a double 13 year ago, block, rendered, timber roof with Planwell steel over but wanted something more attractive this time as it'll be more visible.
It'll be West Coast Scotland so worried about weather too.

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Skyedriver said:

Lotobear said:

I built this garage extension from scratch - 175mm thick C35 raft with perimter toe and A142 mesh (2 post lift friendly).

Walls out of 100mm x 50mm studs and roof 225 x 75 purlins with 150 x 50 rafters faced with Tyvex and vertical battens. Western red cedar cladding and a Welsh slate roof.

I used tanalised log board on the back elevation as the red cedar is very expensive.

Made it up as I went along. I designed the roof 'open' so I could stack two cars on the lift

Much better from a condensation point of view in winter

That's really quite pretty, either the WRC cladding, slate or grey woodwork.
Is the cladding T&G or overlap?
May I ask roughly how much it cost in materials.
I built a double 13 year ago, block, rendered, timber roof with Planwell steel over but wanted something more attractive this time as it'll be more visible.
It'll be West Coast Scotland so worried about weather too.

Thanks for that info

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4Q said:

Tuin do the sort of thing you're after at reasonable cost https://www.tuin.co.uk/Log-Garages.html

They look ok, and there's a 6x5 one, that'll take two cars and that'll not require Building Warrant

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CAPP0 said:

I've got one on the back garden as my man cave/bike shed. Single garage size. It's the 44mm interlocking log/cabin type.

After the base was down, I built it entirely myself, single-handed. Wasn't difficult and was mightily rewarding. Few lessons I learnt subsequently, it may be worth sinking thin screws into the interlock joints, as this will help to protect against those joints expanding differentially. Also, I put the roof boards on with a nail gun and now I wish I had screwed them (well, I do every time there's a high wind!)/

Mine came from a company called Latvian Log Cabins. Being absolutely frank, price vs quality was acceptable (was about £1600 for the kit about 5 years ago) but it may be worth paying a little more, some of the timbers have splits in them now and some have shrunk/expanded more than others, so you can see bigger lines between some of the planks. Not a huge issue, just something to be aware of.

I'm sure I have some pictures somewhere of it going up, I'll see if I can find them.

The one's I highlighted in the original post are from Eastern Europe too

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crankedup said:

We purchased a new timber garage from these people www.meritgardenproducts.co.uk

Excellent bit of kit, although on ours the roof covering was felt which lasted about six years. The roof bracing was not up to cladding with slate tiles which was a pity. Go for the heavy timber products and we used a strainer preservative for ease of maintenance and ascetics.

Thanks for this as well, 70mm logs sound good as long as they are similarly strong timber to the others and I like the steel tile effect roof. It's for west coast Scotland and i think shingles or felt will not last long.