What to clad garden office with?
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Is the garden office and setting modern or traditional/rustic?
I built quite a large shed/workshop last year and ended up going with treated softwood board and batten - it seems to have different names in different locations but googling that should bring up what I mean.
It's effectively 150mm x 22mm sarking planks with a narrow batten nailed on to cover the joins. It looks very traditional but smart enough with a coat or two of barn paint. Cheap too with the sarking costing around £6 for a 4.8m length.
I built quite a large shed/workshop last year and ended up going with treated softwood board and batten - it seems to have different names in different locations but googling that should bring up what I mean.
It's effectively 150mm x 22mm sarking planks with a narrow batten nailed on to cover the joins. It looks very traditional but smart enough with a coat or two of barn paint. Cheap too with the sarking costing around £6 for a 4.8m length.
trickywoo said:
What is the main construction?
Mine is 19mm shiplap. In its 6th year and still looks like new.
Do you know what the wood is? I'm seeing various types of shiplap for cladding and for every place that says one type, there's a forum thread saying don't and to use something else. Mine is 19mm shiplap. In its 6th year and still looks like new.
Schiehallion said:
Do you know what the wood is? I'm seeing various types of shiplap for cladding and for every place that says one type, there's a forum thread saying don't and to use something else.
It very much depends what it's protected with and where it is located. After all, most sheds are made of a cheap shiplap and manage 10 plus yearsI built my shed from shiplap from the nearest builders merchant, coated it when I built it and at 10 years old it still looked brand new but I put a decent overhang on the shed
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