[OTish] Ping the budding architects - workshop design

I'm a bit stuck trying to design my new workshop. The basics are it'll
be 24' square. The right half (24' long x 12' wide) will be the
Corvette garage & car workshop. The left half will be split into two
12'x12' sections, the back one being the bike workshop & the front the
bike garage. So far so good.

The problem I'm having is I also want to include a self-contained
office on top of the building & a roof terrace, accessed from an
outside staircase.

I'm currently thinking of having a sloping roof rising up from the
right-hand wall to the centre, then a vertical drop down to a flat roof
on the left half (i.e. above the bike garage/workshop), & building a
12'x12' 'pod' on the flat bit for the office, with windows all round to
make the most of the views. The remaining 12'x12' bit of flat roof
would then be the roof terrace, giving me somewhere to work outside in
the summer.

Whilst I'm sure this would work & give me everything I need, I'm
wondering if there might be another way that retains roughly the same
dimensions, but looks a bit more... well 'funky', iyswim. Your best
ideas & attempts at ascii art would be most welcome.

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Although you'd lose some office view, you could have the office
centrally over the front half (under a symmetrical fully-pitched roof,
with storage space in the eaves either side) and the rear half as
terrace.

 

Yeah, I know what you mean - 'tis a bit small isn't it. I might go for
24 x 30 instead. I've got four other out-buildings to play with though,
so I don't think I'll need the extra space.

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Hmm - interesting. Could work nicely with some roof windows.

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No matter how much room you have in a workshop I'll always fill it with
shit. Mine's 18' x 8' ish and it's got a loft.

Can't move in it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty

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<hollow laugh>

Workshops should always be bigger.

 

Did'nt Tommy Walsh build a moving mezzanine floor inside his workshop
for Office/TV/Beeer fridge?

 

You're not wrong. My current one's 30' x 13' & getting from one end to
t'other involved much sideways walking before I started moving stuff
out.

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What's the location like? Does it need do be hardened against crims? Also,
are you talking about a brick or block structure with a proper,
concrete-tile roof, or two by fours, OSB and shed felt?

Do you want to include a loo/kitchenette in the office? Will you want to
work on heavy item on the roof terrace? You may want to consider a hoist of
some description, also upstairs shed space for tools/bench and power points.

Are there any planning issues to worry about? You may have to think about
Part P for the electric.

 

I can always add bits on later if required. The problem is there's no
access for a readymix truck, & just doing enough concrete for 24x24
with a mixer will probably kill me. I suppose I could look into
concrete pumps, but it's a helluva long way from where a truck could
get to.

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You can get a guy on a truck with a big FO mixer to do it for you, then
just a couple of people with barrows can wheel it around the back. I've
seen it done for a reasonably large shed. The rate the guy can mix at is
pretty impressive.

 

http://www.sketchup.com/ - have a play with that?

 

I think that's bigger than my house.

 

Not really. It's at the end of an unsurfaced track & surrounded by
farmland. I will put in an alarm system & CCTV, but only because I've
already got them.

Block with felt initially. I might tile the roof in future if funds
allow.

Nah, just a kettle & a drainpipe running down to the stream...

No, that'll just be for sun bathing & laptopping.

No planning issues, & J's son's an electrician so that's covered.

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So all I need is a couple of volunteers with wheelbarrows, who'll work
for beer & curry then? Cool.

<fx: tumbleweed>

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A splendid idea - thanks.

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How about beer, curry & a go on your MV?

 

Flat roof garage with a B&Q garden shed plonked on top?
(B&Q or one of the specialist wooden building manufacturers.)

 

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Yeah, that might work.

 

<looks in workshop>

Yep, that's about it.

Regards,

**** Grimly.