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Have you any plans on how your doing the floor, damp proofing etc. We have a cowshed as well, it’s stone probably a few hundred years old and was a classic style Irish stone farm house until the 1940s when a new house went up and it was converted. It still has concrete stalls in it and it seems a bit of a waste to leave it slows decaying. Only photo on the phone is the back of the building- also no windows .
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underuser53929
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Probably similar construction to both our house and shed.
For the house, we very carefully dug down a couple of foot (took us to the bottom of the foundation stones, slight scary!), then I think we did fairly typical approach of compacted scalings-->DPM-->6 inches concrete-->Barrier-->UFH pipes buried in 4 inches of screed.
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I'd love to have a building like that t start with. I think if I ever do move out of The London it will be proper countryside (but within 45mins of a decent sized city).
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So my question...
I am in the very early stages of planning our next stage of the renovation, which is converting the old cow shed (16m x 4m) into a useable building, it is currently not water tight, and half the floor is broken concrete, the other half is earth.
Things that will definitely need doing:
The aim is to make this easy to convert to a small bungalow in the future, so will be insulating etc. and all internal walls will be stud, so that is is easier to reconfigure in the future. For now it will be an office, gym and craft room, with a small shower room and kitchenette.
Thankfully the brick pillars give natural partitioning, so office, gym and craft room will all be 2 bays each, and kitchen and shower room will be one bay each. My initial thought was that each room would have its own front door (except kitchen\shower room) and there would also be internal doors to go room to room. I'm keen not to put a corridor in as it would lose space and also block light.
My main question at the moment is how to configure the kitchen and shower room, of the two options below, which do people prefer? Also open to other suggestions...