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17th September 2015, 09:06 PM #1Novice
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Garden Studio (man cave) Assembly
Here are some construction pics for our new 5m x 3.5m Siberian pine garden studio.
Our house is bursting at the seams, so it was time to build a detached office workspace / man cave / general purpose living room space in our back garden.
The final fitout is still a work in progress, but I'll post a few pic here of the various stages of assembly for anyone who may be interested in assembling a pre-manufactured DIY cabin kit like this one.
The main components for the cabin walls, roof and floor were supplied as a pre-manufactured kit from Logixbuild Sydney. The actual factory is in eastern Europe where all timber is pre-cut to size ready for assembly on a concrete slab that I prepared while waiting for the shipping.
The main cabin assembly was a fairly easy process if you take the time to prepare a perfectly flat slab for the foundation. The roofing was a bit more challenging, but thanks to youtube there are plenty of resources to draw on.
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See this link for more progress pics...
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17th September 2015, 10:21 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Nice job, looks better than my house.
Kryn
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17th September 2015, 11:11 PM #3.
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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
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17th September 2015, 11:32 PM #4Novice
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Thanks Bob. Your cousin has some amazing machinary! It must be a similar setup to the company that makes these.
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18th September 2015, 04:34 PM #5
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.
I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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18th September 2015, 08:39 PM #6Skwair2rownd
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Nice spot!!
BUT---- Is it blokey enough??
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18th September 2015, 10:09 PM #7
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
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18th September 2015, 10:31 PM #8Novice
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19th September 2015, 10:55 AM #9.
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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.
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19th September 2015, 12:13 PM #10
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.
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19th September 2015, 01:51 PM #11.
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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?
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19th September 2015, 06:12 PM #12Novice
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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.
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19th September 2015, 06:27 PM #13
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.
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19th September 2015, 06:28 PM #14
Gib
A very, very smart studio!
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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25th September 2015, 07:17 PM #15Novice
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Great work!!
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