New summer house project.

[fattiman]

What would something like that cost?

 

[videojetman]

What would something like that cost?

Good question.
But when I was looking to build this summerhouse I looked at how much I would pay at my local garden center and the figure of somewhere between £5k - £8k was quite normal. But that didn’t include some aspects of my build, like the shingled roof, the double skin with insulation, the addition of electrical lights and sockets, the laminating Etc.
I ended up paying around £1700 for all the materials used.
The person who was looking at my summerhouse thought around £5k would be a good price to pay for the level of finish on my summerhouse.
So this could be the start of something great for me.

 

[fattiman]

Superb! It certainly looks very good quality - I am sure there is a market for bespoke Summerhouses, particularly in the "footballers wives" areas of Cheshire!
I wouldnt know where to start with a project like that - I cant even make a step out of decking for the garden!

 

[videojetman]

Superb! It certainly looks very good quality - I am sure there is a market for bespoke Summerhouses, particularly in the "footballers wives" areas of Cheshire!
I wouldnt know where to start with a project like that - I cant even make a step out of decking for the garden!

Now if I could get a few orders off premiership footballers. That would be amazing.

 

[videojetman]

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I have made a scale model of the design I think would work best for the guy who has asked me to build him a summer house, I was just going to do a drawing but I think it works better in 3D, this particular summer house will be 4.5 m x 3m so plenty big enough.

 

[kase1983]

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supurb! i like the stage buy stage of the build, i built mine last year and its still not done after an accident. hopefully mine will get finished, it water tight for now.

i only took 3 pics.

 

[videojetman]

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supurb! i like the stage buy stage of the build, i built mine last year and its still not done after an accident. hopefully mine will get finished, it water tight for now.

i only took 3 pics.

Excellent work, well done. How much has this cost up to now ?

 

[kase1983]

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ermmm, its cost about 9k so far.

the planning permission was about 240
slab came in around 1500 inc the belolw.
digger & dumper for 1 week came at 160 = diesel.
there is 40 sq meters at 8 inch thick concrete. 468
rebar was free from local farmer.

we had to remove 44 tones of topsoil to get it level. so grab lorries were needed.

26 x 8x4 sheets of 50mm insulation board. 900 ish.

i snapped my ankle at the start so a chippy for 2 weeks came in 2k ish, then the rest was materials,

i was quoted 35 - 40k from local builders which i didnt have so its taken about 18months now chipping away at it.

electric will be nothing as im a sparks by trade. just some cable etc.

ive got exact numbers somewhere.

Doug

 

[videojetman]

Looks like a great space, what is it intended for ?
I actually twisted my ankle on the 2nd day of my latest build but I managed to keep going.
But I love doing this work.

 

[kingbling]

Nice to see the shed builds coming along 5k for a build is quite modest by comparison, been cracking on with mine this weekend spookily enough although not a full build more like a recommission. Sorry will update my own thread