Insulated Cube Garden Offices - any shape, any design Price From: £3,642.46
Easibuild Contemporary Cube Insulated Garden Offices
Insulated garden offices - Hortons build high quality timber garden buildings that are insulated and ideal for an office at home. Usually manufactured in large, very heavy and awkward panels. These can make it difficult to actually get the building into into your garden. Especially if you have restricted access (width or height). Sometimes having to take them over a garage roof or fence which involves lots of extra manpower and expense. This is why we have come up with our unique "Easibuild" garden building range.
The walls are bite-sized pieces, but built in such a way that the end result is a very strong construction. This results in each wall being stronger than if made in 1 large panel), thus eliminating the access problems.
Combined with panelised floor and roof panels (again all very manageable sizes), this garden office is ideal for DIY installation.
We make our garden buildings and structures at our own dedicated factory. Therefore we can not only make any size or design you choose but we can also offer factory painting. We use high quality Remmers Aidol treatment. This option means that once you have built it, it's done and fully weather-proofed.
We call our Easibuild range "Easibuild" for a reason (plus they have already been mainly pre-assembled at our factory before shipping). Check the installation video of our showsite model.....
Cube Office Specifications
- Overall height - 2.45m (within planning restrictions)
- 18mm (finished thickness) tanalised cladding (can be vertical or horizontal cladding)
- 47x75mm tanalised wall framing
- 70x140mm roof purlins - very strong
- Diagonal bracing within each wall panel for strength
- Breather membrane lining to all walls
- EPDM rubber roofing supplied as standard (complete with all glue and trims required)
- Tanalised floor panels
- Tanalised floor bearers at 400mm spacings for a very strong floor
- Double glazed, double doors with eurolock security
- 2 x 690x2125mm joinery made, log cabin quality fixed sidelights
- Safety glass
- Includes delivery to most of the UK - see terms and conditions for free delivery area postcodes
Options
- Doors can be flush or inset on the front wall (see photos for both options)
- Extra doors
- Extra windows
- 47x100mm or even 47x150mm framing for larger buildings
- Insulation packs (for roof, walls or floor - you can choose)
- Change window sizes - we have many choices available (click here)
- Factory painting using high quality Remmers timber treatment
- Veranda decking within inset area in front of doors (if you choose to inset your doors)
- Made to measure service - can be made to the nearest millimetre, any size, shape and layout is possible!
Building Wall Height: 2.35m
Building Ridge Height: 2.45m
2 x 690mm(w) x 2125mm(h) Window
1 x 1565mm(w) x 2100mm(h) Double Door
CHOOSE YOUR EASIBUILD CUBE OFFICE SIZE:-
Lining choices
We offer a number of lining choices, plasterboard is the standard lining. But we can also supply moisture resistant MDF and tongue & groove timber boarding (TGV) (price on application).
There are 2 types of plasterboard, square edged and tapered edge. Square edge requires plastering or tapered edge which requires taping and filling (commonly known as dry lining). The dry lining option is more suitable for DIY finishing. Square edged plasterboard does require plastering by a professional plasterer. All options will still require full decoration after installation.
NB - Hortons do not undertake plastering or taping & joining. This should be by others (ie, by the customer or a contractor employed by the customer)
3.8m x 2.6m Cube Lined and Insulated Garden Office
This Insulated garden office installed onto the customer's existing concrete base has our ISO house quality windows and doors, T&G internal lining. And also 2 extra high level windows (for extra light without losing useful wall space). This customer did not require a second sidelight.
1.8m x 1.8m insulated garden office
Cube offices are very flexible in design, size and specification. This garden is very small, and so requiring a small garden office. We installed onto a concrete base prepared by the customer. It has uPVC doors and windows, EPDM roofing and is insulated with Kingspan for comfortable use all year.
3.3m x 4.8m Insulated Cube Garden Office with T&G lining
Cube offices are very flexible in design, size and specification. This garden office installed onto a concrete base has house quality doors and windows and a partition wall. The main room is fully lined with T&G matchboarding and insulated with Kingspan for comfortable use all year.
Easibuild "Cube" Insulated Garden Offices installation instructions
This Cube Office is being installed upon a timber platform rather than a concrete base (you will see this platform being laid just before the floor panels of the office itself are fitted) -
You will already need a suitable flat, level sub base in place to start installing your Easibuild building. We can supply a raised timber base kit separately if required.
NB- These instructions should be read in conjunction with the drawings provided with the building.
It is good practise to lay a damp proof membrane (DPM) on top of your base before starting the build. Our DPM kit is at least 100mm larger all round than the base size for the building. Lay this on the base first, then lay your floor panels as described below in the fitting instructions. Then fold the edges of the DPM over on top of the floor and fix the edge trims all around. This protects the DPM from UV damage and mechanical damage by strimmers etc. Fit the wall panels as described in the fitting guide and finally trim off any excess. This keeps all of the timber dry should water get on top of your base and under the building. The water will stay under the DPM rather than get on top of it.
Garden Office floor installation
If you are insulating the floor, turn the floor panels upside down to expose the bearers. Cut the insulation boards and fit between the bearers. This should be a tight fit such that they stay in place when turning the floor panels back over. You can use some tape to hold them in place if required. This MUST be first step as it isn't possible to do after building the walls.
Place the first 2 floor panels on the base. If there is a gap then fix a floor board on 1 panel. Then guide it into the groove of the other panel when pulling them together. Fix the panels together by angling a 5x80mm screw from each end through 1 floor bearer into the next. Work your way along fitting each floor panel in turn.
Garden Office wall installation
Start fitting the wall panels by forming a corner on the back of the floor. This then leaves easier access for installing the other wall panels. Simply screw the panels together with 5x80mm screws and a cordless screwdriver. Work your way around to form the complete wall structure (do not fix down to the floor at this stage). The images below show a building with large bi-folding doors. Hence the large cantilevered high level panels this will obviously depend on the design of your building.
Screw the extra top plate timbers all around on top of the panels using 5x80mm screws. This will not only strengthen the building but also hold all of the panels in a straight line.
Now position and fix any extra supporting posts (possibly between any large openings and/or windows/doors). Plus extra framing, top plates shown on your plans - these will support the roof structure.
Garden Office roof installation
Before starting to fit the roof, measure the 2 diagonal distances between the tops of the opposing corners of the building. These need to be the same as each other to ensure the building is square. If they are not equal, you need to move the wall panels accordingly otherwise the roof panels will not fit.
Fix the purlins into place according to the plans. Starting from 1 edge, fix each T&G roof board in turn, checking that they run straight and true as you go. Cut the last roof board down to fit the remaining space with a saw. Then fix the roof drip at the bottom end of your roof boards by screwing through the roof boards into the drip.
Now fit your corner battens by fixing any so far unfixed edges close to the corners. Make sure they fit flush with the boards running from the other side of the corner. And also any panel jointing boards (if supplied loose which may not always be the case) as shown below-
Fit the the rear drip under the roof boards at the low side of the building (using 5.0 x 80mm screws) and the roofing material (installation guide
See our EPDM roof installation guide here - http://www.hortonsgroup.com/epdm-rubber-roof-installation-guide) onto the roof .
Ensure the building is straight and square at floor level. Then screw through the bottom of the the wall panels down into the floor panels to secure into place. Fix down in each corner and approximately every metre thereafter, evenly spaced using 5x80mm screws.
Garden Office window and door installation
Fit the windows and doors by applying a silicone mastic bead around the inside of the cladding oversail around the wall opening. Then slide the frame/s into into position. Push the frames up tight against the silicone/cladding oversail). Then fix the frames into the wall panels with 5x80mm screws. Apply another bead of mastic all around the outside edge of each frame for a weather-tight finish. Finally fit any inside trims/architraves supplied. These may be loose until you have lined the building. They will allow for any internal linings that we have supplied to give a neat finish. See separate instructions if you have aluminium sliding/bifolding doors and/or windows.
Installing garden office roof and floor insulation
Now that your office is water-tight, you can fit the insulation and internal lining. It is best to start with the roof. Cut and fit the fibreglass insulation into each of the bays in the roof (you can use tape to hold it in place). Then cut the Celotex/Kingspan solid board insulation to fit into each bay, ensuring a tight fit. Tack the vapour barrier around to cover the whole ceiling area. If there are any joins then make sure they are directly over a purlin. Lastly, fix your ceiling lining into place.
Now fit the wall lining and insulation by cutting the Celotex/Kingspan into each of the bays in the wall, again ensuring a tight fit. We supply enough insulation to fully fill the depth of the space in the wall. Then fit your wall lining over the top accordingly.
Your building is now complete. The only thing left to do is to paint it with a good quality waterproofing preservative or paint. Unless you have chosen the factory applied treatment of course.
You can see loads of videos of our garden offices on our Youtube channel - tell us what bits of what building you like and we can combine them all together for your perfect garden office.