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Particularly for anyone who’s looking to do something similar, in a bid to keep costs vaguely sensible, the build has been quite heavily influenced by “stuff I found cheap on marketplace”.
For example, ALL the wall sips were a job lot from a guy nearby who’d just done built his own workshop, this was the leftovers, I paid £640 for the lot and it’s enough to do the whole build (I think!) - when you consider that effectively replaces all your framing, all your insulation and all your sheathing, it’s very economical.
The roof panels were the same, a job lot of leftovers from someone else’s build, I paid £1000 for enough panels (inc. most of the trims/flashings/guttering) to do the whole roof, and I’ll have some left over.
The Glulams were the most recent addition. I priced up a new glulam (£530 delivered), a steel ridge beam (£500 delivered), buying new timber from Travis Perkins to do a cut roof (approx £3-400). I found these at a reclaim yard and got all 3 (going to double up the ridge beams as I’m unsure on the structural calcs, 1 probably would have done it but 2 certainly will) for £160!
I realise I’m lucky to have the space to store all this rubbish but if you can be flexible and keep your eye out for deals, there are ways to do either a higher spec or lower cost (or both) build than you otherwise might if you were just placing a big order with the merchants.