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Questions about garden sheds/cabin

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  • 06-08-2023 3:38pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Need a shed/cabin to be for my teenage sons, games room and as a guest room too. Size 10ft x10ft or 8ftx12ft


    A budget of 7/8000e

    Pvc cladding, Polycarbonate, steel or timber? Which are better for insulation and warm in the winter?

    What can I use for heating? Want to avoid electric heating as it would be costly to run

    If I get a basic shed, could I put in insulation myself and would it be a cheaper option?

    If not, when checking out sheds, what should I look out for or ask questions?

    What type of wood?

    Have been looking at sheds online and don't know what shed would be good. I'm clueless

    Any suggestions/advice please

    Thanks

    Post edited by ClmAlfie on


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,339 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Watching with interest, I think your budget is way off for the ask (2/3x), hope I'm wrong.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,888 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Having built a Finnish kit garden 'office'/shed, with a Polycarbonate wood shed lean-to extension, I would advise polycarbonate, because anything made of wood will rot and be eaten by slaters/wood lice in this sodden country..

    If I had my time again I would build a shed entirely out of Polcarbonate. I had a metal roofed shed at a previous house and there was a large amount of condensation on the underside of the metal which dripped and saturated everything in the shed. Might as well of just had four walls and no roof at all.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,954 ✭✭✭con747


    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



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