I thought I might post up this now, even though I expect this process and fit out will take some time, but I want to do this as a WIP, both to document the steps, and hopefully, with your feedback, help some others who might be planning or thinking about the same journey.
We moved into this place a couple years ago, and after having done a lot of the basic stuff you do when moving into a new place, it's taken a couple of years to set aside some coin ready to begin fitting out the shed in the rear of the place to become a workshop on one side, and home office on the other.
It's essentially a 3 bay garage (10m x 7m), and it used to have 2 roller doors and a normal door, but that's been reconfigured now to suit the new purposes it'll be put to.
The glass sliding door now leads to what will be the first 1/3rd of the shed, which will become the home office. The roller door is about where the workshop begins internally, and will now serve as an extended area for table saw or other out/in feed as required, and behind the back of the shed is a normal door for access into what will become the workshop:
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Whilst we were in the prep stage for getting the actual shed reconfigured, we had the electrician run in a decent power supply from the main house switchboard, and the plumbers ran in hot & cold water (you can see their feeds in the photo above, which was taken after they filled in their trench), and we decided while they were at it, and given it was close to hand, they may as well run in town gas too. They're all roughed in to a couple of corners at this stage, all awaiting further work.
Inside, the shed had some insulation (sarking, with air cells behind it) on the roof, but the walls were just colourbond and metal framing. We had that redone whilst the shed was being reconfigured to include a little insulation, and it doubles as a condensation barrier. The sparkies feed is also shown in the next photo (and before anyone thinks I've ignored good Blackbutt, and stacked it wrong, that was temporary, and it's now in the wood store (a different, smaller shed) and properly stickered):
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So, the idea now is to build internal timber stud frame walls to hold both insulation (Bradford Soundscreen to assist in minimising noise for neighbours) and which can then be clad and painted etc to provide internal walls. We began that process over the Easter break, and found we had a lot of work to do in cutting timber to allow for the various bolts and protrusions that sit proud of the metal framework in places:
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These frames are temporarily sitting in place - they will be taken back down at a later date to have a building wrap put on them to both provide a moisture barrier, and to hold in the insulation in the walls. They're being stood in place to keep them out of the way, and to allow the plumbers and electricians to rough in their spots to run cables and water/gas etc.
Over the coming weeks, we're hoping to continue and finish the framing, and then begin with insulation/and internal wall lining. Progress is likely to be slow, but hopefully steady!