Soldato
Hi all,
A friend has just found out his office needs to be turned into a nursery, his garage is actually used for his car/bike so he needs something to use as a man cave.
The garden is an ok size, 8-9m wide, and probably about 15m long but his wife wants to keep it 'clean' for the kids to play in, but said he can have a little shed. A little shed wouldn't really cut it for him so he's decided to go underground and use the shed as a stair case to get down there.
Anyone done anything like this?
He's thinking a 25ft shipping container however, from the research he has done by the time he's:
dug the hole and put a decent concrete foundation down
bought the container
added a lot of reinforcement to the walls and roof both inside and out
cut and welded a staircase in
found some sort of waterproof covering for it on the outside
it may just be cheaper/faster to have dug the hole, laid foundations and built a brick walled unit. He's been looking at polystyrene bricks that you add steel rods and concrete in as it should be waterproof and strong enough for what he needs.
Any advice I can pass on to him?
A friend has just found out his office needs to be turned into a nursery, his garage is actually used for his car/bike so he needs something to use as a man cave.
The garden is an ok size, 8-9m wide, and probably about 15m long but his wife wants to keep it 'clean' for the kids to play in, but said he can have a little shed. A little shed wouldn't really cut it for him so he's decided to go underground and use the shed as a stair case to get down there.
Anyone done anything like this?
He's thinking a 25ft shipping container however, from the research he has done by the time he's:
dug the hole and put a decent concrete foundation down
bought the container
added a lot of reinforcement to the walls and roof both inside and out
cut and welded a staircase in
found some sort of waterproof covering for it on the outside
it may just be cheaper/faster to have dug the hole, laid foundations and built a brick walled unit. He's been looking at polystyrene bricks that you add steel rods and concrete in as it should be waterproof and strong enough for what he needs.
Any advice I can pass on to him?