Studio shed build - blog

Me too. Great idea with the window.

Well worth the wait, looking good!!!

Well, eventually set some lights up to have a mess around.
This took literally 10 minutes (5 of which were me trying to work out why my flash wasnt going off until i realised i had put the transmitter on my camera the wrong way round, lol).
Only 3 of the 4 flashes used for this.

looks good. Seems like an awful lot of work and money spent during these past 2 months just to take a photo of a punching bag though...

ewheeler20 wrote in post #14736851
looks good. Seems like an awful lot of work and money spent during these past 2 months just to take a photo of a punching bag though...

Agreed. At the least, the wife could have volunteered to be your first victim.

ewheeler20 wrote in post #14736851
looks good. Seems like an awful lot of work and money spent during these past 2 months just to take a photo of a punching bag though...

CameraMan wrote in post #14736872
Agreed. At the least, the wife could have volunteered to be your first victim.

I have more of a chance getting the pet dog to pose than i do the wife.

I do have a friend who is coming over Friday for a shoot.

ewheeler20 wrote in post #14736851
looks good. Seems like an awful lot of work and money spent during these past 2 months just to take a photo of a punching bag though...

PCthug wrote in post #14736968
I have more of a chance getting the pet dog to pose than i do the wife.

I do have a friend who is coming over Friday for a shoot.
http://farm7.staticfli​ckr.com …99847606_221af8​6fca_z.jpg

great looking friend. keep us posted

Had a bit of as mess around with my punchbag shoot and like the newer version more.

PCthug wrote in post #14739221
Bought some small led lights on a string for £10 from B&Q.

Thats the interior lighting sorted then.

Here in the US top plate is doubled. Seam irrelevant.
A vapor barrier on both sides is counterproductive.
Clapboard and or any siding to include roofing is a water shedding device and not a "water proof" one.
They are designed simply to shed water as water rolls downhill yes/no?


In general here in the US that building would fail inspection on many levels. But I don't the codes in UK.
Too here in New York you can not even build a shed that big....at least on Long Island

And with all that said.....you have a studio and I don't !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So go for it and I hope it comes out wonderful and serves you well.

Even the OSB (oriented strand board) on both sides of the floor is counterproductive.
Setting it up to rot me thinks

Me thinks is a licensed contractor for Nassau & Suffolk counties and all 5 Burroughs on NYC.
Just to qualify

You now need to install venting in the floor as the is no air flow

Then again......you are in the UK so all can be different albeit we use the same air

A garden shed (alright a very posh one) is not expected to pass any building regs here. However if it was built with accomodation as an extension to the main residence it would certainly have to.

For example, my garden shed has no vapour barrier or insulation at all, the wind blows in - the wind blows out!

honestly, do you think nature knows the difference of whether or not it was "built with accommodation as an extension to the main residence"? I think not... Just because it doesn't have to meet certain standards, doesn't mean you shouldn't meet them. They are in place for a reason for other buildings and this is a building. Just because nobody is living in it doesn't mean mold and structural problems won't occur...

Yes but we are not talking about nature here, we are talking about legalities.
On the nature side of things, this can also vary slightly.
Ok, water is water, mold is mold and wood needs to breath and a building has to be ventilated, but structual buildings have to be suitable for other forces of nature that can vary from area to area. For instance we dont have tornados here or extreme snow (we do have a lot of it though for a week or two a year). The ground here is mainly clay and very hard, but where i live there are a lot of coal mines. This also has to be taken into consideration for dwellings and places of habitat. For sheds, or small outbuildings like this it simply isnt necessary.

Kind of sounds like where I live. Hardly any snow, we do get some nasty weather from Hurricanes that happen to run up the Gulf of Mexico. And we live on hard clay pretty much (Georgia Mud we call it). I would say the harshest weather we have is the heat. LOTS of it in the summer and very mild winters. But still, I'd build the room to withstand any kind of weather I've seen in my life both in Chicago and Atlanta. Atlanta has gotten some nasty ice storms.