I need a good decking

Originally Posted by cheb

Could you put doors on the front and use it for storing outdoor stuff like hosepipes and similar?

That's the sort of plan. Lot of space under there. I just need to be mindful there are some ventilation slots for the living room suspended floor. Oh and I need to keep foxes out!

Screwd.

Stile and rail doors with a mesh inset panel?

Arches would fit into the gaps in option 3 if that is what you want, they don't need to be structural just architectural.

By the by, what you driving these days - theres a few bricks (possibly 50 or more) dumped round the corner from my digs, blue in colour so might be engineering bricks but might be a good contrast option for the arch. Let me know and I'll point you at them or grab a pic tonight so you can see what there is.

Originally Posted by go_slow

Arches would fit into the gaps in option 3 if that is what you want, they don't need to be structural just architectural.

By the by, what you driving these days - theres a few bricks (possibly 50 or more) dumped round the corner from my digs, blue in colour so might be engineering bricks but might be a good contrast option for the arch. Let me know and I'll point you at them or grab a pic tonight so you can see what there is.

Blue sounds interesting. Still got the old Passat but it's full of ESD bench at the moment. Blagged a spanky new workbench from work, along with a few optional extras like a six foot long mains extender. Picture would be handy.

Will mock up some arches in sketchup. I lost all the above when I tried to intersect an arch with a brick front. Too many pythons I think. Crash. Lost. Good job it's sch a quick tool to use.

Screwd.

Originally Posted by Screwdriver

I've had a brainwave.

I could simply extend the existing concrete. Block and beam construction, should be cheap as chips but also nice and solid.

Thread Crash..

Any idea on the rough costs per M²?
I'm not gonna clutter your thread with things I need to get done, but this gives me a dastardly devious way of maybe achieving a job I may need to get done soon

Don't know yet but those short beams are a tenner, blocks are 46p each (iirc) and concrete is as cheap as mud.

I'll wager the longer beams are more expensive beyond a certain lenght but I haven't costed it yet coz I haven't decided. Option 3 is looking most likely.

£20 per square metre??

Screwd.

Feel free to jump in; if it's decking/flooring/sketchup whatever, probably will be info I'm interested in too.

Thanks for that.
I'm looking at, playing with ideas for a cheap shed / garage floor that's quick to lay and most importantly removable and to some degree reusable.

Originally Posted by Screwdriver

Picture would be handy.

Okie dokes, will do tomorrow evening.

I'd do it all in wood TBH. Posts into the ground at the front set in muck.
Aren't you overengineering? Looks tiny.

Originally Posted by DefTrap

I'd do it all in wood TBH. Posts into the ground at the front set in muck.
Aren't you overengineering? Looks tiny.

Can I concrete over a wooden structure?

S.

Originally Posted by Screwdriver

Blue sounds interesting.

Blue ones are all gone but they have dumped a load of reddish ones there.

Originally Posted by Screwdriver

Can I concrete over a wooden structure?

S.

I'm lost - I thought this was about wooden decking and you were only arseing about with ideas for the substructure ...

Originally Posted by go_slow

Blue ones are all gone but they have dumped a load of reddish ones there.

Those look like concrete paviors rather than proper bricks.

Originally Posted by Cousin Jack

Those look like concrete paviors rather than proper bricks.

Looks like that to me too! Having laid a load of 'em last year

Originally Posted by DefTrap

I'm lost - I thought this was about wooden decking and you were only arseing about with ideas for the substructure ...

It was and now it isn't.