High spec garden building on a budget
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They're wood textured which showed through slightly, it looks fine though.
They were only 50mm SIPS so felt it wouldn't hurt, especially as was battening out the walls for plasterboard anyway. I had considered insulated plasterboards but they would've added quite a bit to the costs. Polystyrene cost about 20 quid for more than I needed.
They were only 50mm SIPS so felt it wouldn't hurt, especially as was battening out the walls for plasterboard anyway. I had considered insulated plasterboards but they would've added quite a bit to the costs. Polystyrene cost about 20 quid for more than I needed.
Edited by 4Q on Thursday 27th June 11:53
They wouldn't be good enough for a house but they've been great for this. The building is pretty cheap to heat and cool all year.
Edited to add; a quick google suggests that 50mm of Cellotex which is similar, has a U value of .44W/mK so coupled with the polystyrene at .37W/mK, 12.5mm of plaster board and two layers of 9mm OSB, its better than my house was before I had cavity wall insulation.
Edited to add; a quick google suggests that 50mm of Cellotex which is similar, has a U value of .44W/mK so coupled with the polystyrene at .37W/mK, 12.5mm of plaster board and two layers of 9mm OSB, its better than my house was before I had cavity wall insulation.
Edited by 4Q on Thursday 27th June 12:55
Next job was boarding out ready for plastering. I taped over all the socket and switch back boxes so they wouldn’t get filled with plaster.
I cut out the holes in the ceiling for the lighting and speakers.
Then got whinged at by the plasterers for making their job harder!
They did an outstanding job, they’re really top rate lads who’ve done a few jobs for me.
I cut out the holes in the ceiling for the lighting and speakers.
Then got whinged at by the plasterers for making their job harder!
They did an outstanding job, they’re really top rate lads who’ve done a few jobs for me.
4Q said:
They were only 50mm SIPS so felt it wouldn't hurt,
Edited to add; a quick google suggests that 50mm of Cellotex which is similar, has a U value of .44W/mK so coupled with the polystyrene at .37W/mK, 12.5mm of plaster board and two layers of 9mm OSB, its better than my house was before I had cavity wall insulation.
Fair enough. Plastering looks grand. Edited to add; a quick google suggests that 50mm of Cellotex which is similar, has a U value of .44W/mK so coupled with the polystyrene at .37W/mK, 12.5mm of plaster board and two layers of 9mm OSB, its better than my house was before I had cavity wall insulation.
There doesn't seem to be much interest in this thread so I'll bring to a speedy conclusion for anyone who's still interested.
I laid a 16mm armoured cable down to the building, most of it was run along the fence but where it crossed the lawn I buried it 500mm down under some hazard tape surrounded by sand in case anyone started digging in future.
I also ran an outdoor cat5 cable down with it as I wanted decent wifi down there.
I'd been searching for Cedral cement cladding boards on ebay again and came up with a large quantity including some trims for £400 so I set to work cladding the building.
I thought it would be useful to have an outdoor socket at that end of the garden so I ran a cable in at the same time as the other electrics. I put a couple of extra battens in to secure the socket to when I screwed it to the outside. I also put it in the other side of the split load board to the other sockets inside so I wouldn't trip them by cutting through a cable out in the garden whilst my wife was on the treadmill :-)
I lined the floor with 3/4 ply as I didn't want weights dropping through the floor. the walls have just had the first mist coat of paint at this stage.
I bought some as new gym flooring from a gym that only been open a few months, once again from ebay. I had to pick it up from Cardiff but I timed it with a visit I had to make to Bristol so it wasn't a big detour. Saved me hundreds of pounds.
I laid a 16mm armoured cable down to the building, most of it was run along the fence but where it crossed the lawn I buried it 500mm down under some hazard tape surrounded by sand in case anyone started digging in future.
I also ran an outdoor cat5 cable down with it as I wanted decent wifi down there.
I'd been searching for Cedral cement cladding boards on ebay again and came up with a large quantity including some trims for £400 so I set to work cladding the building.
I thought it would be useful to have an outdoor socket at that end of the garden so I ran a cable in at the same time as the other electrics. I put a couple of extra battens in to secure the socket to when I screwed it to the outside. I also put it in the other side of the split load board to the other sockets inside so I wouldn't trip them by cutting through a cable out in the garden whilst my wife was on the treadmill :-)
I lined the floor with 3/4 ply as I didn't want weights dropping through the floor. the walls have just had the first mist coat of paint at this stage.
I bought some as new gym flooring from a gym that only been open a few months, once again from ebay. I had to pick it up from Cardiff but I timed it with a visit I had to make to Bristol so it wasn't a big detour. Saved me hundreds of pounds.
Edited by 4Q on Monday 1st July 14:20
Edited by 4Q on Tuesday 2nd July 06:05
4Q said:
There doesn't seem to be much interest in this thread so I'll bring to a speedy conclusion for anyone who's still interested.
On the contrary, it's brilliant and I'm in awe of the efficient approach you've taken to it. Appreciate that there has no doubt been plenty of planning and faffing, but as a perfect example of how to set about doing this, it's great. I suspect lack of interaction because the photos and descriptions make everything clear - no one's confused or giving you the benefit of their armchair opinion..!
I don't want be a narcissist, I just didn't want to bore people.
With such a large south facing glass front the building would need aircon, especially as a gym, so I bought one that we could turn on via wifi in time to cool or heat the building before we went in. Ebay again.
The gym equipment arrived a little quicker than we expected so it had been getting in the way. Once we got the floor down we could get it unpacked properly.
We needed decent sounds in there so I bought a pair of Lithe Audio Bluetooth speakers so I could use them with a variety of input sources including phones or amazon dot. You could see in a earlier picture that I had run audio cables to connect to one of the TV's. They sound pretty good in that space with no distortion even at full volume although I did have to put a little dab of silicone on the back of the grills as they buzzed a little.
I thought colourful lights might be good too so I made a small pelmet/channel and ran in multifunction strip lights.
The end result is this
With such a large south facing glass front the building would need aircon, especially as a gym, so I bought one that we could turn on via wifi in time to cool or heat the building before we went in. Ebay again.
The gym equipment arrived a little quicker than we expected so it had been getting in the way. Once we got the floor down we could get it unpacked properly.
We needed decent sounds in there so I bought a pair of Lithe Audio Bluetooth speakers so I could use them with a variety of input sources including phones or amazon dot. You could see in a earlier picture that I had run audio cables to connect to one of the TV's. They sound pretty good in that space with no distortion even at full volume although I did have to put a little dab of silicone on the back of the grills as they buzzed a little.
I thought colourful lights might be good too so I made a small pelmet/channel and ran in multifunction strip lights.
The end result is this
Edited by 4Q on Monday 1st July 13:43
Edited by 4Q on Tuesday 2nd July 06:06
Having just done a quick tally and I think It cost me around £4k to build all in excluding the gym equipment and the TV's - there are two, one for the treadmill as it has a programme where you can run in time with videos and another larger one so I can watch girls doing yoga.
However as I alluded too earlier I had too much of everything so the gym itself was probably nearer £3k.
In fact I had enough left over to build something for myself
A 5.5m x 3.6m workshop. You can just see the gym at the bottom of the garden in the middle of the picture
However as I alluded too earlier I had too much of everything so the gym itself was probably nearer £3k.
In fact I had enough left over to build something for myself
A 5.5m x 3.6m workshop. You can just see the gym at the bottom of the garden in the middle of the picture
Edited by 4Q on Monday 1st July 14:41
4Q said:
SeeFive said:
Fook meeting your wife in a dark alley if that is her bar on the stand!
Great job by the way, really looks fantastic inside and out.
Thanks. Yes that's her bar!! She's got an arse that's as solid as those weights though Great job by the way, really looks fantastic inside and out.
Mine does her bum and other bits at the local David Lloyd gym. All our gym kit except an abroller, exercise bike and a few loose weights is in my mums garage after downsizing
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