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I managed to get the front sheeting on this weekend, now I just have the corner trims to fit and the steelwork is complete. Then its a couple of fascia trims and the gutters! I am impressed by how much the steel sheeting has stiffened the structure up, once its screwed down, that floppy corrugated steel is incredibly rigid!

Thought it was time for some more updates - the steel sheeting was delivered at the beginning of December, and I planned to get it all on over Xmas. Unfortunately, it rained EVERY. SINGLE. DAY so that idea fell flat on its face. It wasn't until February when we had a couple of dry days without high winds so I could at least get the roof sheeting on: Then of course.. the miserable weather at the weekends came back, and the opportunity didn't present itself until Easter Friday and Saturday to get some more work done. Fascia and roof gable end covers going on: Last job on Easter Saturday was fitting the soffits to the front - I left the back soffit to later as it was quite fiddly and I couldn't face it! Last weekend we had some decent weather here again, so it was time to crack on with the wall sheeting: Lots of cuts on those side panels - luckily I had bought a nibbler attachment for my drill after trimming one of the roof sheets with hand shears (Oh my aching hand). Works well, but it is awkward to keep the cuts straight on the corrugated steel. Hopefully, I can get the remaining panels on this weekend and fit the corner cover pieces (same material as the roof gable end covers). Then I have to decide what to do inside on the walls, leaning towards 9mm OSB 3, treated with 5 star preservative and painted with exterior grade paint. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

Managed to get most of the breather membrane on this weekend (ran out of membrane of course), and the final purlins for the roof trims to support the fascia's. After putting in a thousand staples to hold the breather membrane, I really wish I had my compressor so I could use my air stapler! Unfortunately, that is currently located elsewhere at the moment due to reasons I shall not go into here! Oh my aching hand 😒

Blimey, I just went and looked (not been on insta for ages tbh although I was already following him). Epic!

Thanking you kindly good sir! As I don't have a laser (I have had a DeWalt crossline in my Amazon wish list for ever...), I had to do it old school with a string line. Same on the roof. Pain to set up, but does the same job I guess! Hopefully, I will get the rest of the roof trimmed out this weekend and get the membrane on.

So I managed a bit more progress over the weekend (and I took the afternoon off yesterday whilst the weather was nice) Got the rest of the rafters up, and the front and rear purlins/noggins. Managed to get most of the middle purlins in yesterday, ran out of screws with 6 still to fit. Off to Toolstation for some more!

Hopefully, it won't be too bad, the prevailing weather generally comes from the back. If its an issue, I might look at a roller shutter door on the front, but that will be over a grand!

If you do get around to building something, I recommend this site for doing your calculations --> https://www.blocklayer.com/wall-framing Its got imperial and metric (and skillon / hip roof etc), and it saved me a huge amount of head scratching, especially if you follow the layout properly!

I am quite proud of myself so far as I am not a tradesman, just a DIY bod, everything fell smack on to the plans I had scribbled out! I do wish I had framed the walls the way the Americans do it rather than noggins though, as it is a hell of a lot quicker.

As the weather forecast for this weekend coming up wasn't looking very good, I managed to book Tuesday afternoon off as it was a lovely day again. All the rear wall noggins in, and a couple of other structural members added. Plus I managed to get some of the roof joists in. I had a chat with my mate who is a carpenter, and asked him about the best way of cutting in 38 birds mouths on the roof joists, he asked what size they were and then said don't mess about with that, just smack wedges in there with some glue so that has saved a lot of time. Hopefully this weekend I can get the rest of the roof framed in, loads of purlins to cut! Then I will be ordering a load of corrugated sheeting from a cladding company, so it should be finished by the end of November hopefully. Once the electrics are connected that will be amazing - I have 6mm SWA buried so plenty of capacity for future activities 😁

Sunday rolled around, and thankfully it was nice all day so I managed to get most of the noggins in on the side walls and the back wall rough framed.

Friday was a washout, due to it raining all day, and I had a delayed start on Saturday morning whilst I waited for everything to dry out a bit. I managed to get the side walls rough framed and the front walls in with the big beam (I went for 50x250 in the end after talking to the timber supplier, that was what they recommended for the span and loading). I lifted the beam in myself, it was shockingly heavy and I nearly sharted!

After lots of swearing and grunting, we got the timber out the back, unfortunately, it wasn't delivered till 2pm, and I had booked Thursday and Friday of last week off to get a lot done. After moving the timber out back, I only had a couple of hours of daylight left, but I managed to make a start.

So, months later, I thought I had better come back and update this thread. I had been closely watching timber prices both in the UK and international, and it seemed by September that there were changes afoot. At the start of October I saw a £1.50/m drop on some of the key sizes so I ordered up a big pile from a local timber merchant. I think I saved about £300 on the prices over the summer!

@Toucs thats some great info, thank you very much. I have had a brief chat with the building control people, they are quite happy as long as its under 2.5m max height, as its only semi-enclosed they don't seem worried about fire transmission as the only thing behind is more timber fencing then garden. They just seemed concerned that everything marries up with the published span tables and load is carried correctly. Considering what you see garden outbuildings made of, I did chuckle at that lol. After seeing someones galv steel roof, I am actively considering corrugated sheets, I have even started thinking about building the whole thing out of RHS or angle and welding it! I could also put a support post in the middle of the open section, that might make it a lot easier, the concrete base is reinforced so it would take the point load OK.