How to Plan and Build a Garden Room Step by Step
- Sophie Mitchell
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
Updated: May 23
Had everything gone smoothly with our original contractor, The Fox Den would have been completed much faster. We had to redo some other build stages due to insufficient planning and research.
Here's a summary of how we built The Fox Den, highlighting our process for those planning their own. If we avoided mistakes, it would serve as a quick reference. We tackled many tasks on the fly, but I'd approach it differently if given another chance.
How to Plan and Build a Garden Room Step by Step...
Planning
Design size width, length, height, internal electrics and furniture layout.
Plan the materials out for how you intend to build it.
Plan concrete base.
Work out if what you want needs planning permission or is a permitted development.
Externals
Excavating for concrete base and electric cable
Concrete base
Walls
Roof
Tyvec
Windows and doors
Fascia and soffit
Weatherboard
Guttering
Mastic
Internals
1st fix electrics
Insulation
Noggins
Vapor control layer
Chipboard flooring
Plasterboard
Plastering
Mist coat
2nd fix electrics
Connect up electric cable to fuse board
Flooring
Cladding
Making good
Decoration
2nd fix carpentry
Bar install
Accessories
Dave believes staying up until midnight writing posts is excessive, but I'm enjoying it. My mind is buzzing with ideas that keep me awake anyway. I'm committed to providing detailed explanations of each stage mentioned above.
Keep revisiting this post to find links to each task, where I will go into more detail about how we did it or how we should have done it!
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