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WilderSueden schrieb:

Yes, we also built a slab foundation. Layers of crushed stone, concrete edge beams, and between them, paving slabs laid on crushed stone and gravel. Unfortunately, the plot makes a noticeable bend at that spot and happens to have the highest point there. So we had to lower it a bit to avoid ending up too high. I had never operated a mini excavator before, so it wasn’t as efficient as planned. Also, a 1-ton excavator wasn’t ideal for the dry, very hard clay. On top of that, I blocked my own working space with the piles of excavated soil. Achieving a roughly level base in water is easier in theory than in practice; we only actually reached the base level once the edge beams were set in water. Getting them properly into the water takes time. This kind of delays the whole process... it feels like we made every amateur mistake possible.
And well, the whole house is rather elaborate for a garden shed: two windows, a floor, a tiled roof...

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Wow, what a proud little building. Was it a kit or self-designed and cut (or had cut)? I’m also curious about the budget ;-)

This is a kit from GSP Blockhaus. Our development plan requires that garages/carports and outbuildings, like the main house, be covered with either roofing tiles or a green roof (I should have taken the advice to just use a metal roof…). I searched for quite some time until I found something that can actually support a tiled roof. Conveniently, the company also has a small model home estate near Pforzheim, which I visited last winter. They are very nice people; someone always answers the phone, and email replies come quickly. However, there was an issue with the roof design calculation (or rather, the problem was that it was done too late, and the roof ended up slightly larger than the actual roof overhangs—there will be another thread about that). The kit itself feels quite high quality. Some of the beams and boards could be a bit straighter, but that’s always a bit of an issue with wood, especially since the package was stored under a tarp outside from late May to early September.

The cost for the kit (45mm (1.8 inch) log walls including substructure, two windows, a door, floor, roof sheathing, eaves and gable boards, as well as all necessary screws and matching Torx bits) is about €6300 including delivery. On top of that, there are costs for the foundation materials, roof battens and tiles, various roofing accessories (underlay membrane, ridge roll, etc.), gutters, and paint, which I sourced myself. The total budget should be around €9000. It’s not exactly cheap for a garden house, but at one point I feared I would only be able to get something like this from a carpenter. Let’s see how many will actually comply with the development plan requirements…

Kokovi79 schrieb:

What exactly is flat in the photo? For Lower Saxony standards, that’s almost high mountains.

This is in Rhineland-Palatinate 😉
Our first house was in Lower Saxony, hence the comparison.

Okay, that’s quite a steep price, but a great result.

Here is my "budget project bike shelter": 3m (10 feet) wide, 2m (6.5 feet) deep + 40cm (16 inches) roof overhang, 210-230cm (7–7.5 feet) high.

So far spent (screws, brackets, underlay membrane) about €270.
All the wood so far is leftover timber from the house, but I now still need to buy roof battens for around €100 😉
I hope to be able to use my nice HPL panels for the wall cladding (cost about €200 + €60 for screws).
Roof covering is nearly 8m² (86 sq ft) of Erlus tiles (leftovers from the house).
Inside will probably be completely covered with tongue-and-groove boards (22m² / 237 sq ft for about €350).
Additional beams to reinforce the roof structure (due to the weight of the tiles) about €80.
Lighting, sockets etc. (actually all leftovers from the house build ;-) but realistically about €100).
Shelf made from plywood for beverage crates and leftover timber about €100.
Total budget then probably around €1250 (a little buffer still available 😀).

As you can see, there’s still quite a bit missing! But on Saturday I’ll make some progress again. Work is keeping me very busy at the moment 😳

i_b_n_a_n schrieb:

okay, that’s definitely a proud price, but a great result.

You have to consider that the 500€ garden sheds from the hardware store are significantly smaller (I’m really pushing the 40m³ (1413 cubic feet) limit) and also use much thinner materials. A 19mm (3/4 inch) wall uses less than half the amount of wood. The roof tiles are especially expensive, mainly the ridge tiles. The cost of a row of tiles of this size is roughly divided equally between the right verge tile, the field tiles, and the left verge tile.

I’m hoping the carport will be somewhat cheaper than that 😉

Here we go again. Over the last two weeks, we finished the last prefabricated wall.

Tomorrow the tiler is coming to waterproof the bathroom upstairs, on Thursday the bathtub will be installed, and on Friday the tiling will begin! Very exciting.

Here is the prefabricated wall for the bathtub, with shelves in the front, back, and on the side. Everything has to fit perfectly. Our heating plumber encouraged us and said, “Good luck, it never fits.” Challenge accepted—I’ll let you know Thursday whether we won or lost 😀

First, meditate

Building the wooden scaffolding

Then sheathing

and a bit of filling

Et voilà

the tiler can come!

By the way, I lost both my will to live and my hair somewhere in between 😉