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Block shed advice needed

  • 27-04-2011 11:34pm
    #1
    Merch
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    Few queries about a block shed I'm planning on doing.

    I'm going to build it using cavities, I'm putting a damp course membrane in. Just wanted to know. I am going to lay a few courses of solid blocks on their sides on top of the foundation
    1. The solid blocks above the foundation but below the damp course, are they a different type to standard solid blocks? if so what are they called?

    2. Where would you get rebar, and assuming I put some in the foundation, can you get shorter lengths to make the longer lengths of rebar into a box sectioned shape along the length of the foundation?


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  • #2
    Carlow52
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    blocks are the same for a shed

    rebar can be got where u buy the blocks, u dont need a fancy cage of rebar unless its more than a normal single storey shed: how big/high is it?


  • #3
    Merch
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    I plan to do up a drawing by hand so I can see what it looks like, and ensure I have enough area left over.
    The max overall height would be under 4 metres (although it may only go to 3 metres depending on the roof material, which depends on the cost of what I decide to put up there.
    I'm not sure if I get sheets of tile shaped and coloured plastic if 4 metres will apply though, I dont think so but it might be cheaper. I have to see how much tiles and sheets of plastic formed to tile look/shape will cost.

    I need to confrim if there are any requirements on the pitch angle, initially I planned on giving myself room to store some things in the pitched space. I was going to consider having a non symmetrical apex so the neighbours behind me dont have to look at a big flat wall.

    The overall area will be about 3 x 4 or 5 metres but this may change if narrower suits my needs for work space inside/if it takes up too much of my small garden, I dont want to make it look too big to the remaining garden/want to meet the regulation requirements.

    I read some other posts and people are saying put in rebar (initially I didnt think this would be necessary) I didnt know If Id have to make a box section out of it or just lay 2 or 3 lengths of rebar parallel to each other, slightly raised in each trench.


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