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bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINISHED!

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse with cathedral roof WIP

Postby Malc2098 » 12 Jul 2016, 21:24

Still looking good!

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse with cathedral roof WIP

Postby oddsocks » 27 Jul 2016, 22:37

Well this is it...the moment I thought at times wouldn't arrive, but I 'finished' (snagging to be done) the summerhouse yesterday with the fitting of the doors. Just in time really as the furniture arrived today!.

So, continuing from my last update, I did as much as possible to the doors before assembly as possible - so the hinge recesses were cut (in both the doors and door linings), the rebate fitted latch and home were cut, as were the complex rebates for the top and thebottom shoot bolts.

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Eventually all was ready for the dry fit (the bottom of the door is to the front of the image - I realised at this point I needed to continue the bottom rebate and that meant the lower shoot bolt housing had to 'move up' - all done after glue up. I also reinforced the glued joints with 12mm stopped dowel pegs

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When I went to fit the door frame to the CLS door frame already in the summerhouse I realised I'd used some banana shaped CLS wood, so had to remove the frame (unscrewed the two verticals and the top and bottom) and replace with some of B&Q's finest.... I checked at least 20 lengths to find the two straight, quartersawn I needed. Once that frame was but back in place and checked for vertical I clamped the two door frame verticals and used the diagonal string check for alignment with each other then fitted- the strings touch without distorting either string run....The doors were then hung, using the predrilled holes in the precut housings.

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After that it was a case of fitting some trim either side of the doors and drilling the holes for the shoot bolts

Job done!
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Snagging...
-some paint toouch ups
-extending the rebate seal to go the full length of the door - at the moment it stops at the shoot bolt as I fitted that centrally, but with the doors closed you 'see' that the white seal stops too soon. You can just see that in the first finished image with doors closed.
-fix the soffit board - its only tacked at the moment.
- fit the screwfix eaves mesh
- check the roof in early Sept to restick any lifted ridge tiles.

So what did it cost (approx)....just under £1400 in materials (excluding 'essential' tools!)

-Timber (excluding mistakes and design changes) approx £800 from local timber yards with a bit from B&Q. to be fair, the B&Q CLS was far better than the the builders merchant and cheaper.
-Glass (6 panels, 3sq m 4mm toughened) £103
-Roof shingles and associated adhesive tubes £110
-Quick jack foundations £160 (8*£20)
-Paint - 5 x 2.5l Cuprinol shades £80
-screws, contribution towards nail gun nails etc £40

Time to complete, the base was laid in late April, but construction of the floor etc started mid May. I've not taken any time off work until this week (1 day) so it was done at weekends and evenings as weather and family life permitted. the longest single task was actually fitting the roof shingles.

I hope I've inspired someone to have a go :-)


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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Malc2098 » 27 Jul 2016, 22:44

Really nice job! Just the fridge to go and you'd deserve putting your feet up in there for a few hours!
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby oddsocks » 27 Jul 2016, 22:46

:-)
Given the furniture arrived today it seemed silly not to at least have a bottle of wine to celebrate. Apparently the bottle of champers gets opened when the snagging list is signed off :-(

I forgot to add the power - the armoured cable and weatherproof socket is already outside from the original gazebo, so a fridge is an option :-)
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Malc2098 » 27 Jul 2016, 23:22

Result!
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Rod » 27 Jul 2016, 23:37

Nice job - is there any guttering?

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby oddsocks » 27 Jul 2016, 23:44

Rod, no guttering at the moment but its an option I can fit if needed. All around the summerhouse is gravel. I'vve got a larger roofed area shed with no guttering and the run off hasn't been a problem.
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Rod » 27 Jul 2016, 23:51

Ok I was just thinking of some over your door entrance to take it away from that - amazing how much runs off in a storm!

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Andyp » 28 Jul 2016, 10:07

Nice one. Well worth all the effort.
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Tusses » 28 Jul 2016, 10:41

Nice work !
It sits very nicely in it's surroundings.
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby TrimTheKing » 28 Jul 2016, 16:29

:text-bravo:

Top job that, looks great.

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Robert » 28 Jul 2016, 16:43

Very nice. I'm supposed to be building my daughter a shed sometime - doubt it will look as good as that!
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Doug » 28 Jul 2016, 22:54

Looks very nice.
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby chataigner » 30 Jul 2016, 15:42

Great job, looks terrfic
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby oddsocks » 04 Aug 2016, 05:55

Thanks for all the positive comments :-) After being in use for a week now it has definitely been a success....this sign appeared a few days ago (not fitted by me I might add- note the masking tape!)

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Malc2098 » 04 Aug 2016, 09:57

Even better result!!
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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby meccarroll » 15 Oct 2016, 18:20

Nice job there Dave.

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby oddsocks » 15 Oct 2016, 22:02

Thanks Mark - we are still using it even though it's no longer summer. If the weather is good tomorrow I'll take some pics with it furnished and lit. We often comment as we look up at the house why are we in a wooden box :-)
But it does have reach of wifi, sky Q and Plex so we can chill out to any program or music or just nothing :-)

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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby oddsocks » 15 Oct 2016, 23:10

My wife had some pics with the lights on and furniture in ....


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Re: bespoke corner summerhouse c/w cathedral roof -NOW FINIS

Postby Phil » 16 Oct 2016, 08:25

TrimTheKing wrote::text-bravo:

Top job that, looks great.

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Postby Malc2098 » 16 Oct 2016, 09:46

:text-+1: :text-bravo:
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