You are reading a single comment by @johnnettles2 and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
johnnettles2
Not been very active on this forum over the last couple of years, COVID and two nippers kind of put pay to riding bikes for fun, mostly ridden now to the bakery and take sprogs to the park! I wanted to document this somewhere and seems like there’s some appetite for this content and plenty of folk who’ve done it before.
Our garden is slightly odd in that it’s wide and not very deep so the workshop will be tucked off to one side against the boundary (see photo of area with rough position).
It’s going to be 6x4.2 meters (basically as big as I can make it in the space I have), on a concrete slab and build from SIPs, with a pitched insulted box profile roof, supported by a 6m glulam ridge beam (most of which I already have lying about the garden / in the garage)
Today is Feb 25th, groundwork’s start on Monday (27th). It’s the only bit I’m not doing myself, I wanted to, but I don’t really have enough people available to help me on pour day, and the slab is a trek from where the concrete truck will be, so got a couple of quotes and figured once the base is down I’ll have no excuse to get on with the rest.
I’ll try and stick some more photos up of the design and other bits when I can dig the photos out.
Hopefully I’ll update this next week! Not sure how regular the updates will be after that though!