Cornwall Timber Buildings

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Cornwall Timber building suppliers John Shields Woodwork, provide some advice on the stages of planning, designing etc when wishing to erect a timber building.

Click on the boxes below to read the relevant information for each process:

1 Introduction

2 Planning permission

3 Base requirement for your building

4 Building layout

5 Site access

Site access

At John Shields Woodwork we will need to need to know how far your site is from the point where we will park our vehicle.

This distance can be measured in paces. We also need to know if there are any tight corners and how many steps there are.

Buildings will be delivered in panels of up to 2.2m high. For this reason we will need headroom of 2m for most buildings. Any gateway or path should be at least 750mm wide.

Parking will be required for a Ford Transit size vehicle, with addition of a trailer for larger buildings.

Very large orders will require access for an 8 metre flatbed lorry.

Our Services include:

Sheds	Workshops	Stables
Field Shelters	Timber Garages	Timber Workshops
Studios	Offices	Commercial Buildings

Base requirements for your building

All buildings will require a base of some kind. If the site is not level this may require some excavating. If this is the case, always make the site larger than the building to provide airflow around the sides of the building

Buildings with timber floor

These buildings will require a level site. This may be of earth, stone, concrete or tarmac. Generally, only purpose built concrete pads will be perfectly level. If the site has a small slope of less than 40mm per metre, we will supply heavy timber bearers to form a level platform. These will be set level with the use of packing where necessary.

Sites that slope more steeply should be levelled first.

Larger buildings should have a stone or block base. The stone should be of 40mm scalpings. Blocks should be 100mm thick laid on the flat side.

A purpose made concrete pad could also be considered.

Buildings without timber floor

Garages and stores, which do not have a timber floor, will be bolted down using sleeve anchor fixings. These buildings will require a level concrete pad which is 10mm less, in size, than the footprint of the building. In this way the shiplap cladding will pass down over the side of the base, while the sole plate (bottom rail) of the wall is bolted to the concrete.

The pad should be at least 100mm deep and a damp proof membrane should be installed under the concrete.

The base must be at least 75mm above the surrounding ground to ensure that water is kept out and the timber remains dry.

Any ramp for vehicles should be kept 40mm below the floor level of the base. This will allow the doors to pass down below the floor level by 20mm to keep out the rain.

Stables

Stables are best bolted to dwarf walls of one course of 100mm blocks. The blocks should be laid on edge and built on a footing, before the floors are laid. In this way the concrete floors will help to tie in the blocks. Laying a concrete pad and then building the walls on top will not do. Please ask for a plan before you start.

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