On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:20:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Wife wants a new garden shed not to have a felt roof.

No problems with slapping stronger rafters and tiling it but...will this
make it permament and therefore under planning/BCO regs...

Since I need the BCO around anyway elsewhere, can't just do it on the QT.


I did exactly the same thing a couple of years ago with a cabin,
although wanted to use cedar shakes rather than tiles. The
construction was to use a standard boarding arrangement, felt on top
of that (which would have been the normal felt roof), then to batten
and attach the shakes to that.

I chose a cabin building with low roof pitch so that I could get
reasonable floor area without needing to go too high. As you
probably know, their are criteria for area, height, distance from
house, proportion of plot use etc.


I talked to both the local building control and planning people about
it and each asked about their relevant set of parameters. The main
one was use (i.e. was I going to use it as habitable space.). I'd
done my homework and had made sure that I was within all of the rules,
so was prepared with answers for all their questions.

I specifically asked about the roof, and it didn't make a difference.



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..andy

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