BenG
ClioTrophy Moderator
Hey.
Im in the process of building a substantial workshop and thought I would post a progress thread on here now I have actually got to a stage where the buildings is nearly ready to be built. I’ll give you all a bit of background as to how it all came about…
Around 15 years ago my parents bought some land as they used to have some horses. They asked for planning permission to put some buildings up to keep the horses in, they were rejected, so my dad went and built them anyways… Shortly after they give up the horses as my sister grew up and stopped riding them.
Over the years the buildings have been used as a bit of a dumping ground, things were put up there out of the way from home and over the years it’s become a complete shanty town (see pic). I always wanted to build a proper building up there so I can work on my car etc and let’s face it every man’s dream is to own a nice workshop. We didn’t dare ask for planning permission as the buildings that were there were not subject to planning permission in the first place.
OLD BUILDINGS
Last year the council noticed that there was some washing on a line at the field (my mum takes washing up there to dry out as there is not a lot of room at home) They thought that we were living there and asked to come up and view the area the next day, cue my dad rushing up there and removing every object that was ‘borrowed’ from work etc and hiding various things.
The next day some guy came up and had a look around and told us that they want us to knock them down and build something more substantial. Result! I felt the clouds open as sun shone down on me and received blessings from God.
I decided to make the most of this and had some plans drawn up for the biggest building I could fit in there, (thinking that they would be funny and make changes to it, change the size etc..) but no, they went and passed it without any issues what-so-ever. I had a custom building designed.
Here is the final design, it has been custom designed to my own specification.
13M Length.
7M Width.
3.2M to the eaves.
3.7M X 3.1M Manually Operated Roller shutter Door.
2” Thick Steel Personnel Door with Multipoint Locking.
PVC Coated Tin sheets
Fibre Cement Roofing
The building arrived in kit form weeks ago and is kept in a safe place until I am ready to start putting it together. I have no pics yet but to give you an idea on the amount of parts that came with it; it arrived on 2 20odd meter flatbed Lorries over 2 days. I will get some pics up once the ball starts rolling with the build.
At this beginning of this year (2010) I started work demolishing the buildings and clearing the site. I have worked none stop over the weekends and have filled 6 Skips at £133 each. Most of the buildings were made from wood so I burned these to save space in the skips for rubble and other junk.
The banking at the back was dug out a few feet to make some more room…
A temporary building was needed so that we can store some of the things that we need throughout the build; we built it using wood from the old buildings. A base was set and filled with concrete.
The last building to be knocked down was originally a housing to transport gear box parts for the submarines so it was well built and a nightmare to demolish.
I tried setting it on fire but it never worked. Please note I was well annoyed with everything at this point as it had taken ages to clear everything out and it felt like I was getting nowhere, Settings things on fire relieved some of the stress.
I came up one morning and it was in pieces? Turns out my sister’s boyfriend came up in the tractor and ran in to it a few times so that was that, I burned the remains.
The temporary building.
It took weeks on end to clear the site to a suitable state so that we can work on the foundations but we finally got there… Now I feel like im getting somewhere. If you look back you will notice a massive difference between what the place was like then and how it is now, it has taken months to clear out.
Last weekend I rented a 7 tonne digger and pecker for 2 days (£350) and spend all weekend peckering out 13 holes for the foundations. The whole ground is solid limestone so it makes for excellent foundations but a nightmare to get down far enough for the footings (2 ft). I didn’t get any pictures of the digger as I was too busy.
After the holes were dug 13 2ft square boxes were built which are to be placed in the holes and filled around; the insides will be filled with concrete forming the footings. The framework of the building is bolted to the concrete footings using 20mm anchoring bolts (44 of them!)
So that’s the stage im up to now. Next I need to level out the boxes and fill in the holes around them, and then I can fill them with concrete and start the build. ?
Ben.
Im in the process of building a substantial workshop and thought I would post a progress thread on here now I have actually got to a stage where the buildings is nearly ready to be built. I’ll give you all a bit of background as to how it all came about…
Around 15 years ago my parents bought some land as they used to have some horses. They asked for planning permission to put some buildings up to keep the horses in, they were rejected, so my dad went and built them anyways… Shortly after they give up the horses as my sister grew up and stopped riding them.
Over the years the buildings have been used as a bit of a dumping ground, things were put up there out of the way from home and over the years it’s become a complete shanty town (see pic). I always wanted to build a proper building up there so I can work on my car etc and let’s face it every man’s dream is to own a nice workshop. We didn’t dare ask for planning permission as the buildings that were there were not subject to planning permission in the first place.
OLD BUILDINGS
Last year the council noticed that there was some washing on a line at the field (my mum takes washing up there to dry out as there is not a lot of room at home) They thought that we were living there and asked to come up and view the area the next day, cue my dad rushing up there and removing every object that was ‘borrowed’ from work etc and hiding various things.
The next day some guy came up and had a look around and told us that they want us to knock them down and build something more substantial. Result! I felt the clouds open as sun shone down on me and received blessings from God.
I decided to make the most of this and had some plans drawn up for the biggest building I could fit in there, (thinking that they would be funny and make changes to it, change the size etc..) but no, they went and passed it without any issues what-so-ever. I had a custom building designed.
Here is the final design, it has been custom designed to my own specification.
13M Length.
7M Width.
3.2M to the eaves.
3.7M X 3.1M Manually Operated Roller shutter Door.
2” Thick Steel Personnel Door with Multipoint Locking.
PVC Coated Tin sheets
Fibre Cement Roofing
The building arrived in kit form weeks ago and is kept in a safe place until I am ready to start putting it together. I have no pics yet but to give you an idea on the amount of parts that came with it; it arrived on 2 20odd meter flatbed Lorries over 2 days. I will get some pics up once the ball starts rolling with the build.
At this beginning of this year (2010) I started work demolishing the buildings and clearing the site. I have worked none stop over the weekends and have filled 6 Skips at £133 each. Most of the buildings were made from wood so I burned these to save space in the skips for rubble and other junk.
The banking at the back was dug out a few feet to make some more room…
A temporary building was needed so that we can store some of the things that we need throughout the build; we built it using wood from the old buildings. A base was set and filled with concrete.
The last building to be knocked down was originally a housing to transport gear box parts for the submarines so it was well built and a nightmare to demolish.
I tried setting it on fire but it never worked. Please note I was well annoyed with everything at this point as it had taken ages to clear everything out and it felt like I was getting nowhere, Settings things on fire relieved some of the stress.
I came up one morning and it was in pieces? Turns out my sister’s boyfriend came up in the tractor and ran in to it a few times so that was that, I burned the remains.
The temporary building.
It took weeks on end to clear the site to a suitable state so that we can work on the foundations but we finally got there… Now I feel like im getting somewhere. If you look back you will notice a massive difference between what the place was like then and how it is now, it has taken months to clear out.
Last weekend I rented a 7 tonne digger and pecker for 2 days (£350) and spend all weekend peckering out 13 holes for the foundations. The whole ground is solid limestone so it makes for excellent foundations but a nightmare to get down far enough for the footings (2 ft). I didn’t get any pictures of the digger as I was too busy.
After the holes were dug 13 2ft square boxes were built which are to be placed in the holes and filled around; the insides will be filled with concrete forming the footings. The framework of the building is bolted to the concrete footings using 20mm anchoring bolts (44 of them!)
So that’s the stage im up to now. Next I need to level out the boxes and fill in the holes around them, and then I can fill them with concrete and start the build. ?
Ben.
