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Revised design. Thinking this should be fine…

Roof will be single pitch 5x2s at 400mm spacing, with OSB and EDPM. Window is not to the floor and wall will be skinned with 11mm OSB, so should be no racking.

I'm planning a 3.4m long front wall for a garden room build, with a 900mm doorway and a 1900mm wide window opening. My plan is to have a double width 6x2 across the whole span of the wall to act as a header and top plate combined (due to restriction in overall height, squeezing it all in under...

Thanks all, solid advice and much to contemplate. I’m guessing there are no benefits from using planed framing timber over rough sawn other than it’s nice to handle. (I’m assuming sawn will be less expensive than planed profiled framing timbers.)

I’ll sheet the inside anyway. My preference would be something other than OSB on the inside purely for aesthetics, but it’d get painted anyway. If it’s ok to just have cladding>membrane>insulation then I’d probably go with that.

Hi all, first post after some long-time lurking gathering ideas for a new DIY garden shed/workshop. My plan is for a 2.8m (depth) x 3.2m (width) building with a single pitch roof sloping front to back. I'm limited for size by the width of the garden (4.0m) and slightly complicated by the end...