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How it works

From first visit to finished room

Ten to twelve weeks from saying yes to sitting in it, and only two of those happen in your garden. Here is each step, how long it takes and when you pay.

10 to 12 weeks
from your deposit to the handover.
8 to 10 days
of that on site, for most rooms.
1 price
fixed after the design visit, paid in four parts.

Step by step

Seven steps, and you only have to be there for three

You’re needed at the design visit, on the first morning and at the handover. The rest happens in our workshop or while you’re at work.

  1. Price it yourself

    Two minutes

    Use the calculator to get a guide price for the size and extras you have in mind. It works from the same price list we quote from.

  2. Design visit

    About an hour, free

    Elin or Mark comes to you. We measure up, look at the ground, the access and the route for the cable, and work out where the room should sit and which way it should face.

  3. Drawings and a fixed quote

    Within a week

    You get an elevation, a plan and one price. It doesn’t change unless you change the design.

  4. Planning check

    Before you pay anything

    We check your address against the planning rules and tell you in writing where you stand. If an application is needed, we make it.

  5. Made in the workshop

    Three to four weeks

    Your floor, wall and roof panels are built and insulated indoors, out of the weather. You’re welcome to come and see them.

  6. Built in your garden

    Eight to ten working days

    Ground screws on day one, watertight by day three, plastered by day seven. Our electrician connects it to the house and tests it.

  7. Handover

    The last afternoon

    We walk round it with you, then hand over the keys, the electrical certificate and the guarantee.

A joiner’s hand steadying a wide board on its edge on a machine table, with a workshop window behind.
Workshop · A board over the planer
Two hands in a checked shirt holding a marked board flat on a saw table, beside the blade and a folding rule.
At the saw
Pale timber wall frames with diagonal braces, standing on a timber floor in the sun.
Wall frames

On site

Nine days in your garden

This is how a Study goes up. The Nook takes a day less and The Studio two more. We work from eight until half past four, and not at weekends.

Gloved hands holding a rule across a pale board and marking it with a pencil, on a bench made from a cable drum outdoors, with a tray of tools and a steel rule beside it.
On site · Days 4 and 5 Cladding measured and cut in the garden

  1. Day 1

    Ground screws and floor

    The screws are wound in with a hand-held machine and the floor is levelled on top of them.

  2. Day 2

    Walls and roof

    The panels go up. By the evening it looks like a room.

  3. Day 3

    Watertight

    Roof membrane on, door and window in. From here the weather doesn’t matter.

  4. Days 4 and 5

    Cladding and cables

    Boards outside, wiring inside, and a narrow trench back to the house.

  5. Days 6 and 7

    Plaster

    Boarded and skimmed, then a day to dry while we finish the trims outside.

  6. Day 8

    Paint and floor

    Two coats on the walls, then the floor and skirting go down.

  7. Day 9

    Connection and handover

    Our electrician connects the supply, tests it and certifies it. We clear up and give you the keys.

Paying for it

Four payments, the last one when you’re happy

The price is fixed in your quote. It’s split so that you’re never far ahead of the work, and we’re never far behind on the timber bill.

10%
to book your slot. Returned in full if the planning check turns up a problem we can’t solve.
40%
when your panels go into the workshop. About four weeks before we arrive.
40%
on the first day on site. When the panels are in your garden.
10%
at handover. Once you’ve walked round it and you’re happy.

Questions

What people ask before they book

What can change the price?
Three things, which is why the calculator gives a range. Access: carrying panels through a house takes longer than walking them down a drive. Ground: soft or sloping ground needs longer screws. And the cable: the first 20 m is included, and a longer run costs more. We measure all three at the design visit, and the fixed quote that follows doesn’t move.
Why ten to twelve weeks, if it only takes nine days?
Most of the wait is the queue. We put up one room at a time, about forty a year, and your panels go into the workshop three to four weeks before your slot. If you have a date in mind, tell us at the design visit and we’ll say straight away whether we can meet it.
Do you build in winter?
All year. The panels arrive finished, so the room is watertight by the third day whatever the weather is doing.
Do I need to be at home?
On the first morning and for the handover. In between we need a way into the garden and, for the first few days, somewhere to plug in.
Will you take the old shed away?
Yes, if you’d like. It goes into your fixed quote, and it’s usually a couple of hundred pounds.
How long will it last?
The structure is guaranteed for ten years and built to last several times that. Larch and cedar need no treatment to stay sound, and we come back after the first winter to check the doors and ease anything that has settled.
Who actually builds it?
We do. Mark and two joiners make the panels and put them up, and our own electrician does the wiring. Nothing is subcontracted except the plastering, and the plasterer has worked with us since 2016.

Next step

The first step takes two minutes

Price the room you have in mind. If the number looks right, book a design visit and we’ll take it from there.

Price your room Book a design visit

The Nook · 3.0 × 2.4 m
from £14,600
The Study · 4.0 × 3.0 m
from £21,700
The Studio · 5.4 × 3.6 m
from £32,700
All prices include
VAT, foundations, electrics and installation