Small Garage - Office Project

Mike Lucey · 19 Apr 2008, 14:23

Hi Guys,

This is a small Garage - Office project that I'm working on.
The site (plot) width is just 6.000M and the client wants a
lot fitted in!

Initially the building will be used as a Garage with a small
Office overhead. It is also required that the buiding can be
turned into a Granny Flat. I wonder why its never called a
Grandad Flat?

The building is facing due South and we will be incorporating
some solar energy systems. It's going to be a Timberframe
structure with Cedar cladding (or similar) and a natural slate
roof.

Any comments appreciated

Mike

fbartels · 19 Apr 2008, 14:33

Mike,

Nice tight clean design.

Any thoughts of a possible skylight on the north facing roof in order to get a little more balanced natural light in the office/future bedroom space?

Fred

Mike Lucey · 19 Apr 2008, 15:04

Thanks Fred. I have been thinking about this already
but the building will be backing on to some quite high
and dense Leylandii which block a lot of light.

There is one other drawback with putting them on this
part of the roof. If the first floor is used as a bedroom,
sleeping under roof windows can be very noisy when
its raining heavily or worse when there is hail! Velux
should supply some kind of a muffler for this situation,
although it would be be difficult to make one with
polystyrene block and some Velcro strips

However maybe a couple of small roof windows would not
go astray OR maybe 'pull' in some south-light with the
use of a couple of those 'sun tubes'! I'll check it
out.

Mike

el.antuan · 19 Apr 2008, 17:35

Very simple and nice design...

I like it!

Antonio

mike d · 19 Apr 2008, 18:31

mike
very nice clean design

tomislavm · 19 Apr 2008, 19:20

simple,nice and clean design, I like it!

solo · 19 Apr 2008, 20:27

Very nice, cute and cozy.

My wife is off on a tangent now..... She used your 'granny cottage' and her mother in the same sentence.

watkins · 19 Apr 2008, 20:57

Dear Mike,

The performance of the sun tubes is very disappointing. The light is very flat and much like that from a neon tube.

Regards,
Bob

tinanne · 19 Apr 2008, 23:47

Hey, Mike! Great to see what you've been working on. I really like how you continue the slope for the entrace. I'm sure that has a name, but I don't know it!

I'm impressed! Not bad for Irishman!

Mike Lucey · 20 Apr 2008, 02:04

Thanks guys for the helpful comments. Ahh! you got me Tina

I must check out those flexy SunTubes. I used one a few year ago
on a dark landing but it was straight tube. Maybe a straightforward
couple of Velux roof windows would be the best option.

I was playing around with some finishes. I'd really like to use
Cedar vertical cladding but I'm not sure about the conditions we
have over here .... we get a fair bit of rain! I used Cedar on
a project some years ago and its holding very well BUT the suppliers
(Timberframe Company) insisted on coated it with flat preservative.
I wanted to let it weather to a silvery gray!

It will be a fun project as space is so tight and needs a lot of
thought on space saving ideas.

Mike

boofredlay · 20 Apr 2008, 02:22

Very nice Mike. I would hate to be that roofing contractor however

el.antuan · 20 Apr 2008, 07:44

@unknownuser said:

Very nice Mike. I would hate to be that roofing contractor however

¡ hahahahaha !

Good, very good

Mike Lucey · 20 Apr 2008, 14:15

Yea! Roofing Contrctors hate to see me coming along but at the
end of the day they often feel they have achieved something and
are often quite proud of it

Thanks for the links James, I will check them out.