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Garden Room/Music Room

  • 16-10-2018 3:21pm
    #1
    Johnatorium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭


    Looking for some advice on building a Garden Room-style music room. Would anyone be able to give me a rough idea on costs? Looking at about 25m², SIP or timber frame build. Doesn't need to be fully soundproofed, but insulated well enough to dampen sound. Would like to fit a small toilet in it also to save me coming in and out of the house. Any ideas on what i'm looking at, ballpark figure?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Johnatorium wrote: »
    Looking for some advice on building a Garden Room-style music room. Would anyone be able to give me a rough idea on costs? Looking at about 25m², SIP or timber frame build. Doesn't need to be fully soundproofed, but insulated well enough to dampen sound. Would like to fit a small toilet in it also to save me coming in and out of the house. Any ideas on what i'm looking at, ballpark figure?

    25k


  • #3
    Johnatorium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Johnatorium


    Sh!t!! I was hoping to come in around 10k!!


  • #4
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Johnatorium wrote: »
    Sh!t!! I was hoping to come in around 10k!!

    A simple 5x5 box will have a surface area of approx 100sqm.

    Even in terms of materials, 10k will allow only €100/sqm.

    If you think of the number of layers, you have: weatherproofing, load bearing, insulation, air tightness, sound proofing, that doesn't leave much per sqm for each layer.

    Then there's electrics and plumbing. Electricians are expensive.


  • #5
    Addle
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    Cost can be reduced through HRI incentive, I think.


  • #6
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Johnatorium wrote: »
    Sh!t!! I was hoping to come in around 10k!!

    Not a chance!
    Maybe a block built shed, with exposed roof etc
    But what you want will be in use, so damp proof, insulation and electrical etc
    Addle wrote: »
    Cost can be reduced through HRI incentive, I think.

    Yes possibly, he will obviously have to go through a contractor and be fully VAT qualifying for the project.


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  • #7
    Johnatorium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Johnatorium


    I can get the SIPs for about 4k, i would have thought foundations and hooking the waste up to the house would come in under 1k. Electrician at mates rates, a plasterer, cladding and doing a lot of the other bits myself...i still think 25k seems fairly excessive!


  • #8
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Johnatorium wrote: »
    I can get the SIPs for about 4k, i would have thought foundations and hooking the waste up to the house would come in under 1k. Electrician at mates rates, a plasterer, cladding and doing a lot of the other bits myself...i still think 25k seems fairly excessive!

    Do a spreadsheet. A lot depends on material selection.

    To take one element: cladding. 20m of wall is at least 3k in cedar. Drop from cedar to regular treated timber and it might be only €750.

    Same with insulation.


  • #9
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Johnatorium wrote: »
    I can get the SIPs for about 4k, i would have thought foundations and hooking the waste up to the house would come in under 1k. Electrician at mates rates, a plasterer, cladding and doing a lot of the other bits myself...i still think 25k seems fairly excessive!

    Its a ballpark price based on 25 Sq. M insulated space to be used as enjoyment and to give you an idea. If you can post the full spec then maybe people can provide a better ballpark.

    Still no substitution for getting 3 quotes like for like spec wise.


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