Rate my Brickie….

but what about at the front,

I need to take another photo of it finished at the front.

There is an enormously thick RSJ (1/2″ steel) spanning the piers either side of the front door, onto which the wall continues up with another padstone sat on top.

So the ridge beam is supported at both ends and the middle.

The padstone goes on top of the blocks here:

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Blockwork on inside of front lintel[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

That makes more sense!

Sorry i’m using this as a distraction from my current task – pricing an 8-storey apart-hotel in post-tensioned concrete frame including retaining the existing facades of an old warehouse and constructing a basement behind. All in a land-locked site with no access whatsoever in central London.

I wish I was building a garage!

Sorry i’m using this as a distraction from my current task – pricing an 8-storey apart-hotel in post-tensioned concrete frame including retaining the existing facades of an old warehouse and constructing a basement behind. All in a land-locked site with no access whatsoever in central London.

Can you not get away with a sharp intake of breath followed by a whistle through your teeth, a slow shake of the head and ‘Its not going to be cheap mate.’? You can then head out on your bike without exerting any more effort on things so mundane as an accurate price.

I thought that was the official way of doing these things.

No, I haven’t charged my lights 😉

Well the Steel arrived today and the steel fabricators helped me lift in into position, which I wasn’t expecting – thought they’d just drop it off. They had to re-drill the cross member as the original holes were in the wrong place for the post. Chippies arrive Saturday to do the roof joists, then I just need to find a roofer….

Oh yes and they forgot to drill the holes to bolt the ridge plate on, so they’re back tomorrow with the mag drill and a different drill bit to drill the beam in situ!

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Drilling new post holes (as the originals were wrong)[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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Fitting the post[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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Ridge beam on padstone[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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We need some packers….[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

Jeezo! That beam is nearly as substantial as your floor slab!

Jeezo! That beam is nearly as substantial as your floor slab!

It’s actually quite small compared with the cross RSJ and the front door lintel thing which is half the length but more than twice as heavy!

This shed is going to be approximately 20 times stronger than my house

This shed is going to be approximately 20 times stronger than my house

The roof on my old house was held up by a few bits of 100 year old 3×2.

Our current one, being only 80 years old uses slightly more bits of wood but nothign bigger than 3×2.

This shed is going to be approximately 20 times stronger than my house

I like the idea of building things which will last a very long time, hence the concrete block / brick design.

your bikes must be a struggle uphill 😉

Thats a lot of £££ for a man cave

Metal Fabricators back to drill the ridge beam for fitting the wood ridge plate:

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Dave marking out the holes for the ridge beam[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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Magnetic drill[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

The roof on my first house which was well over 100 years old, was cobbled together from old bits of driftwood ( old masts etc )

So going by this, the life expectancy of your man cave could be measured on a geological time scale.

I like your style 😀

@righog henceforth this age shall be known as brickshithouse epoch

eye
wateringly
expensive
!

seriously… what is this gaff costing you? WTF are you going to put in it? i mean, i like my bikes, a lot! but this is beyond the realms of normality…

what about adding another skin of brick work to help properly insulate the place? and what are you going to do about the damp?

Seeing this thread come back made me feel happy 😀

EEEEPPPIICCCC!!!!!

Alpin, I believe the second skin issue has been discussed on multiple pages and still isn’t being used.
At least when global thermo-nuclear war kicks off I know where there’ll be a structure still standing that has bikes in it!

Are you having a concrete roof or something?! That steelwork is a bit OTT!

This man cave is starting to resemble the WW2 built reinforced concrete air raid shelter that we had at the end of the garden when I was a kid. If you covered it with earth I think that you will be safe from possible Doodlebug attacks 🙂

Its not a bike shed as he’ll have you believe, its a

100mm Celotex on inside, rendering on outside, walls with meet a U value of 0.18W/m²K.

As for damp, I’ll seal the bricks below the DPC using cellar paint and install a second DPM below the floor insulation (also 100mm celotex).

I’ve also started digging french drains around the border, so water can’t stand above the base.

I put the ridge plate on last night, and the Chippies arrived at 8am to put the roof timbers in.

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Ridge beam with SW ridge plate fitted[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

Working under my Gazebo as it’s raining right now..

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Chippie’s saw[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

I’ve seen barns with less substantial supports than your gazebo!

Did a den collapse on you in childhood or something – you seem obsessed with over-engineered solutions 😉

Footflaps – Just out of interest what is the cost of the garage, only asking as I’m looking to do the same.

😳

That’s a tree behind it. Was looking at on my phone & thought it was corner prop for the roof

Oops.

Lol at wwaswas 🙂 didn’t think it was that substantial!

That’s a tree behind it. Was looking at on my phone & thought it was corner prop for the roof

Surprised you didn’t point out the load bearing trellis as well.

Rochey,whatever the cost is you can build the something with the same
performance for a lot less if your designer/engineer doesn’t like spending clients money quite so much

^^ ouch.

Jamie – Member
That’s a tree behind it. Was looking at on my phone & thought it was corner prop for the roof
Surprised you didn’t point out the load bearing trellis as well.

Load bearing tree and trellis 😆

Seriously cool “shed” though, I want one!

That’s not OTT steelwork…

This is OTT steelwork

Rochey,whatever the cost is you can build the something with the same
performance for a lot less if your designer/engineer doesn’t like spending clients money quite so much

Yep, you can do it a lot cheaper, but I wanted something substantial. The Engineer first suggest a wood cabin thing, but I wanted brick, steel and slate.

The shell will come in at £15k, but it would be a lot cheaper if it was just out of blocks. E.g. some of the options weren’t the cheapest e.g. handmade imperial bricks so the front matches the house and I get planning permission for it, six 1m2 Velux windows in the roof, so the whole thing is bathed in natural light, double glazed french doors, 50mm steel back door, tiled rood using slate.

Currently my lawn is now a joist production line:

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Roof joist production line[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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Ed at work[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

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Finished joists[/url] by brf[/url], on Flickr

Thanks for such an interesting thread footflaps i’m really going to miss it when its all finished.
One question, Is it on budget?

Lovely saw 8)

Thanks for such an interesting thread footflaps i’m really going to miss it when its all finished. One question, Is it on budget?

It will be slightly over, mainly due to me paying extra to get people to do things at WEs / short notice to try and make up some lost time. I could probably build the exact same thing for 20% less now I know what I’m doing / how to haggle / what prices I can get on materials by haggling. Eg I turned up in a yellow hi-viz jacket today to get a load of metal fixings and managed to get an extra 33% off my 60% discount just by complaining a lot about the cost of doing a job and how much my margins were cut. If I’d known that at the start, I’d have ordered all my materials that way… I’m still coming in at 60% of the quotes I got for the complete job as a fixed price, so am saving £12-15k by managing it all myself / doing a load of donkey work.

Here is my bricies work from this avo

Its a brickie off!