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It's a standard CNC tongue and groove single skin "log cabin" there should be a small (15mm PIR board is the norm IIRC) amount of insulation in the roof and maybe some in the floor depending on the installer. The wood the walls are constructed from does have a insulative value, but not much. All of this means that while it will perform better in terms of being too cold in the winter / too hot in the summer than a standard shed you will still feel it.
The normal way to sort this in say a single skin brick building would be to batten out the wall and put plasterboard on it, filling the cavity created with insulation. Unfortunately you cannot do that with this building as the "logs" it's made from will expand and contract with changes in humidity and temperature, the battens would fight this and eventually it will fall off or damage the structure of the building.
Basically you have two options deal with it as is (you have power and heating after all). Or tear it down and start again. If it helps I used to do contracting work for a company who sold and built these things (if they were too busy or had a particularly complex job on) their biggest seller was units that size for home office use and the vast majority of customers loved them.
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Ok, thanks. I was thinking as there's power in there, to use as is for now and then probably go purpose built down the line (especially if home working continues to be prevalent. But if there had been an option which would make use of this shell longer term thought I'd consider it. Thanks for the advice. Do you mean that the above (or similar) was their biggest seller and used as home office?
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The normal way to sort this in say a single skin brick building would be to batten out the wall and put plasterboard on it, filling the cavity created with insulation. Unfortunately you cannot do that with this building as the "logs" it's made from will expand and contract with changes in humidity and temperature, the battens would fight this and eventually it will fall off or damage the structure of the building.
Oof, does this mean the craptacular shed-room-thing in the couple of images in my post above is going to pull itself apart? In my ignorance and without being able to find a guide to a similar project, I screwed extra studs between the battens of the shed carcass, packed in insulation and screwed on plasterboard. This was three summers ago. How many more years do I get from it before it implodes?
I need to replace the hastily knocked together solid slab door ASAP and was wondering if it will be possible to build in a properly squared frame then put in a pre-hung door of some sort- or is that just idiocy on top of idiocy?
@hugo7 that £750 was pushed up by getting materials specific to trying to soundproof the space (a few square metres of acoustic underlay was north of a hundred quid) and adding things like carpet and skirting so I'm sure you could do similar for c. £500 - though you may not want to in light of the above!
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The house we're hoping to complete on has this garden room/shed - I'd like to turn it into a home office. Would this be a worthwhile venture or should I save time/effort and down the line replace with a purpose built home office? I know a few people on here have experience of this so thought I'd ask.