My new bike workshop

Ever since I got the sv the one thing that I've been desperately after was a decent shed or garage to keep him and work on him! After a couple of years on the patio under a cover I finally bit the bullet and decided to build my own workshop at the bottom of the garden.
Having no building experience whatsoever I rather naively thought it would be relatively straightforward and wouldn't cost me more than around £1500.
I was wrong on both counts
Fortunately my mate's a builder and laid out the first couple of courses to set me off.

Anyway a few photo's before, during and present.







Still not finished yet. Need to gloss the door and the window frame, paint the concrete floor ( when it eventually fully dries) paint the lintel. The biggest job will be to get electricity down there. Need to run armoured cable 185ft from house to workshop!
Nice bonus was that I was able to get that work bench made up out of the shuttering wood from the concrete base

Not sure now when it's going to get finished as the new arrival to the family is somewhat time consuming!!
Hopefully by spring I'll have it sorted with it all tools and storage sorted ready for a season of tinkering and riding

I know it's not perfect, but I'm really proud of what I've done considering at the start of the summer I'd never laid a brick!
Probably made loads of mistakes and could've done a lot of things differently, but really enjoyed it and learned loads!

[maviczap]

Excellent, every man should have his castle

fantastic man cave just needs a fridge

Impressive

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Davie

fantastic man cave just needs a fridge

+ heating, Plasma Tv, sounds , phone (for ordering food, not taking phone calls), wench for delivering tea

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by maviczap

+ heating, Plasma Tv, sounds , phone (for ordering food, not taking phone calls), wench for delivering tea

yep!!

Looks spot on mate.

185ft that is an impressive size garden

[Geodude]

Superb, you should be well chuffed with yourself.

[Dave20046]

Looks great! Did you need any sort of planning permission?

Bet that bike sounds mean

Thats a nice hole-------whats happened to the last photo?

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Looks great! Did you need any sort of planning permission?

Bet that bike sounds mean

No didn't need planning permission. Local building regs stated that if it didn't measure over a certain footprint and the total height of the building was no more than 2.5 metres then planning permission is not required.

I had actually planned to build a pitched roof with gable ends as I initially read that the total height had to be no more than 4 metres. What I didn't read was that it had to be more than 2 metres away from the boundary.

Not tried the bike without the pipes on! Bought one of Chewies kits to angle the cans inwards. Not got around to fitting them yet as Sarah ended up having an emergency Cesarean section!