RE: Workshop - underground....

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I guess it's possible, there was an article in the Sunday Times (IIRC) ages
ago about something similar happening to townhouses in London. I'll see if
I can dig out the article, pardon the pun.

I also found this:
http://www.avforums.com/sdw/homecinema1.html
Talk about lucky bugger, but it wasn't without it's own challenges :-)

There was also one of the Grand Designs houses which was built into a
hillside. Not quite burying it completely, although the roof was covered,
but similar principles I guess.

One further point, your building control officer may have a couple of
comments regarding fire escape routes. Solutions for half-basements are
workable, full basements require more stringent requirements.

What do you plan to do in your bolt-hole <cough> I mean, workshop ?

HTH,

Tim H.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison (Yahoo!) Sent: 21 January 2004 14:48
>
> Here's an off the wall question...
>
> I live in a 1995-built suburban house - as you may guess, I
> do _not_ have a
> large garden.
>
> What I'd be interested in is excavating out a workshop about
> 15' x 20',
> tanking it, then covering the top with something structural,
> and finally
> relaying a lawn on the top... Is anyone aware of a company
> that does this...
> I can manage the interior finish (plaster / plasterboard /
> electrics / CAT5
> etc. ) myself....
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark

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