Thread: Garden Studio (man cave) Assembly

Nice job, looks better than my house.
Kryn

It turned out real nice - well done. k

My Italian cousins have business that pumps out these "houses in a pac of timber"
13m long billets of timber go in one end of an automated machine and a house comes out the other end.
Pretty amazing take a look here https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...ighlight=Legno

Thanks Bob. Your cousin has some amazing machinary! It must be a similar setup to the company that makes these.

One of the main reason I watch Grand Designs certainaly not Mr Kevin pompass McLeod is the amazing jionery/ house designs that come out of Europe.... just leaves the poms and us looking like back yard builders.

Nice spot!!

BUT---- Is it blokey enough??

Really interesting photos of the backyard "shed" the photos of Bob's families business was also very interesting. My wife's family come from near Trento and spread out to Bosanno which is just south of that business although there is a rather large pimple in between called Monte del Grappa. We were last there in June visiting family

Originally Posted by artme

Nice spot!!

BUT---- Is it blokey enough??

Haha. Yes. I did have to dial back the testosterone to keep it multi purpose. My wife is a photographer, so keeping the styling light and neutral provides more possibilities if she ever needs to use it for portrait photography.

Originally Posted by gib802

Haha. Yes. I did have to dial back the testosterone to keep it multi purpose. My wife is a photographer, so keeping the styling light and neutral provides more possibilities if she ever needs to use it for portrait photography.

So no chance of a lathe or a bandsaw making a bit of dust then?

Originally Posted by johnc

Really interesting photos of the backyard "shed" the photos of Bob's families business was also very interesting. My wife's family come from near Trento and spread out to Bosanno which is just south of that business although there is a rather large pimple in between called Monte del Grappa. We were last there in June visiting family

My Mum's village is one of many at the southern foot of Monte Grappa (which was BTW the site of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI {84,000 casualties). My grandmothers house was on a main road and she was 10 years old when these battles took place. She told me stories of how she watched long processions of cartloads of wounded being carried away away in carts that dripped blood and gore so that the stress and gutters ran red for weeks. I have always wanted to read about these battles but finding stuff in English is difficult.

Originally Posted by BobL

So no chance of a lathe or a bandsaw making a bit of dust then?



My Mum's village is one of many at the southern foot of Monte Grappa (which was BTW the site of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI {84,000 casualties). My grandmothers house was on a main road and she was 10 years old when these battles took place. She told me stories of how she watched long processions of cartloads of wounded being carried away away in carts that dripped blood and gore so that the stress and gutters ran red for weeks. I have always wanted to read about these battles but finding stuff in English is difficult.

My mother in laws paternal grandparents come from a village not far from Trento, in WWI they were interned in a German prison camp were they would have beenbarely fed, the grandfather died first of starvation most likely then the grandmother of a broken heart according to the family story. They may have both died of typhoid which was rife in those camps, typically when on deaths door they were sent home to die. My mother in law saw a number of men shot by the Germans after Italy capitulated and in their remote farm regularly came across dead men in bushes who hadn’t been found after skirmishes. In Trento there is a long line of trees from which the Germans hung as many men as they could after capitulation. Tough times. I thought war dead for Monte Grappa was about 250,000 from both sides, it was certainly a game changer when the Italians finally got the upper hand little mercy was shown to the Austrians as they retreated. Both of my wife's grandfathers were soldiers in WW11 and an uncle in the Alpini after the war.
Not hard to see why so many emigrated. My wife is still fluent although she was born here and this time we took MIL and an Aunt back with us, the cousins that remain are very welcoming. That side of the family also has relatives in France, Argentina and Brazil.
You look at Syria today, mankind is stupid we never learn.

Originally Posted by johnc

My mother in laws paternal grandparents come from a village not far from Trento, in WWI they were interned in a German prison camp were they would have beenbarely fed, the grandfather died first of starvation most likely then the grandmother of a broken heart according to the family story. . . . . .

Interesting stuff. I don't want to derail the thread so I won't go into detail into my Dad's side of things except to say my Grandfather and 3 great Uncles fought for the Austrians in WWI. Being Italians inside Austrian territory it was deemed they would not fight against National Italians so they were sent to the Russian Front where the 3 great Uncles died and only my Grandfather survived to come home and start a family.

Back to the OP, I would be interested to know how long it took to put the kit together?

Originally Posted by BobL

Interesting stuff. I don't want to derail the thread so I won't go into detail into my Dad's side of things except to say my Grandfather and 3 great Uncles fought for the Austrians in WWI. Being Italians inside Austrian territory it was deemed they would not fight against National Italians so they were sent to the Russian Front where the 3 great Uncles died and only my Grandfather survived to come home and start a family.

Back to the OP, I would be interested to know how long it took to put the kit together?

No problem Bob, the side-track has been an interesting read.

The actual assembly up to and including the timber roof took about 3-4 days. None of us were builders though most pretty handy on the tools. I was delayed after that point for several months when a council inspector turned up on the doorstep. A neighbour had complained about the height. I originally thought this qualified for exempt development and was confused about the differences between exempt and complying development. I had to go through a construction certificate process which involved bringing in a registeted surveyor, submitting engeneering diagrams (provided by the supplier), drawing up stormwater plans and proving to council that the choice of roofing material would not be highly reflective. Fortunately this resolved successfully. The only additional change i had to make was add guttering and stormwater plumbing into a nearby stormwater pit.
Lesson learnt here though is to always engage council or a private building certifier up front if building taller than 3m or building anything that exceeds requirements for exempt development.

The colorbond roofing and flooring (also included in the package) also took me several weekends of work as did laying electrical conduits for lighting, fan, powerpoints, tv point, and cat6 data cables from an internet switch in my garage. Im lucky to have a brother who is an electrician who helped connect it all up.

Well getting back on topic, that is the sort of backyard shed we can all aspire to, far better than the kit steel things we see. Nice design and a nice feel.

Gib

A very, very smart studio!

Regards
Paul

Great work!!