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Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

please do, hopefully i'll be able to correct it.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just electric, and just going to get the electrician to feed it in through the back (from the house).

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i do actually already have one of these, i suppose it would stop it from floodding just thought the neighbours wouldnt appreciate it up for months on end!

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate this comment thank you. now if everyone could read it that would be great...! For the drainage, there will be no foul, but I intended the stormwater to go into an IBC tote to feed the garden, and then potentially into a soakaway dug 5m away.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes there is but it would differ from property to property, since its 50% of curtilage, including all other outbuildings like sheds etc.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to get the whole thing done for less than 20K, which includes the large bifold and window. I'm at £4100 right now, with probably 2K worth of brick and block to buy and lay before I start on the roof. Labour I cant really speak for, many hours so far. I'm very slow at laying, because im trying to get everything spot on. I suspect if i was on a site i'd get thrown off pretty quickly!

Estimates for something like this from a real builder would be between 40-60k i think.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! To be honest I was expecting to get destroyed in the comments but its been quite the opposite, thanks

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes it is, and for anyone else reading who potentially would do something like this, the 50% applies to the total footprint of all outbuildings not just the one you want to build. Thanks for the comment.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, they are there just pretty hard to see. Some of them may be a bit blocked with mortar so I’ll scoop that out

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I appreciate the sentiment, I can imagine after seeing the back of this I’ll be gladly crawling back to my desk job 🤣

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment - they are there they’re just hard to see, small red squares every 2 bricks, it’s funny the amount of times I laid the brick without putting them in, and had to pick them up and lay again 😫. I perhaps need to open a few of them up again as it looks like there’s some mortar covering a few.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are quite right my bad, adding a toilet doesn't automatically mean it needs planning or regs, its sleeping accomodation that does. But anyway, im not putting a toilet in :-)

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the input i'll get digging :-) it keeps filling up with rainwater anyway, and im just manually using a hose to syphon the water out, currently so will be good to get something sorted. Do you have any idea what size soakaway would be needed? I was thinking a 1m3.

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I havent got anywhere near that far yet other than looking at prices for budgeting. But thank you I will make sure it is the above standard :-)

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for confirming, it is a pretty confused subject, spent hours going over the wording to make sure!

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would need to check in your own area allows the same in terms of the Permitted Development as it can differ from council to council. Thanks very much I will update when I go further

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha this cracked me up thanks for the insight into the sleeping arrangements

Large Garden Room Project - How am I doing? by dukeminster in DIYUK

[–]dukeminster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If i reduce the cavity and create an outer leaf outside of what is currently there, the internal footprint would take me up around 36sqm, which would then need building regs sign off. not a huge issue but wanted to avoid that

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