The Potting Shed

[Vic Flange]

Is that a serious consideration? Of course you bloody would!

Maybe. I do play a lot of pinball (I have 6 machines and used to be a pinball champion). Best of both worlds might be the best bet. Make the room 26' long then I could retain a couple of the pinballs. :encouragement:

[pottr]

Do the pinball tables collapse easy enough? If you have a cabinet that can be lowered with ease then you could store three under a full size snooker table with no bother I'd imagine.

[Vic Flange]

No. The legs are bolted on and they are bloody heavy. I would settle for two pin tables, back to back against the far wall.

Now to the cost of the room. Is there a rough guide as to how much one one cost ?

[pottr]

Depends how you do it. Cabin/Extension/Shed like this one that started this thread.

My extension, all in was about 25-30k I think

Brickwork and groundwork - £15k
Roof, windows, guttering - £5k
Table and floor screed - £4k
Plumbing, wiring - £1k
Plastering, painting and Carpentry - £1k
Plus there's other bits and bobs that add up.

You can get the fabricated sheds for less than 20k... If I had to do it all over again, I'd likely go down that route... Probably not though, coz I'm a flash ******

[Vic Flange]

I would probably go down the log cabin route. A house extension would be too expensive.

[cally]

2 shipping containers, a cutter, a welder, a bit of insualtion, a couple of recalimed windows/doors and voila...

Could probs be done for a couple grand... excluding table.

I've been watching george clark's amazing spaces in i... lol...

[pottr]

That's a cracking idea

[Vic Flange]

2 shipping containers, a cutter, a welder, a bit of insualtion, a couple of recalimed windows/doors and voila...

Could probs be done for a couple grand... excluding table.

I've been watching george clark's amazing spaces in i... lol...

It would also get me a divorce pretty sharpish !

[philip in china]

Would you get planning permission for that?

[pottr]

You wouldn't need it as long as it wasn't over 2.4 meters in height or took up over 50% of your gardens.

[philip in china]

I didn't know that. It seems crazy that you could put something like that in a garden without needing permission.

Would 2 containers give you the width you need for a table? I would have thought they were less than 8'. I tried to look it up but searches seem to be blocked here at present.

[cally]

"Almost all containers today that you see on ships, trains or in loading yards, are between 40 ft (12.2 m) and 45 ft (13.7 m). Typically, most are 40-ft and have a capacity of 2 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units)."

"A standard ISO 20 foot freight container has inside dimensions of 19’5” (length) by 7’8” (wide) by 7’9.5” (high). The container itself weighs 4189 pounds, and has a dry capacity of 48,721 pounds, and a volume of 1,165 cubic feet."

[jrc750]

Hmm you a container geek cally

[philip in china]

So, even with the bit of extra width you would derive from cutting out the side walls to weld the two up would leave you slightly tight. I suppose the answer would be to stretch them slightly by welding a strip of plate between them. The problem would be on the length which would not quite accommodate a full size table. I think the easy answer would be simply to use a 3/4 size table. Of course the internal insulation would also cut down on your dimensions.

How would you make it not look an eyesore from the outside? I suppose you would clad it with something. If that would also insulate then you would save on the inside dimensions. I think condensation would be a problem.

[cally]

shipping containers are the future bud... lol...

Heres shipping container city in london.. lol..

This one looks better the other side of the pond.