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Garden Room Plumbing

Most garden room manufacturers and installers make the majority of their garden buildings off-site and assemble and complete on-site. Staff utilised to do these installations usually come from outside the delivery areas and therefore struggle to provide staff…

Garden Office Security

In my experience, the majority of garden offices and studios are situated in a location distanced from the main house or dwelling. This separation often functions to keep domestic and commercial life separate as well as to not block off the view of the garden from the…

Sedum Roofing for Garden Offices

Sedum or green roofing is becoming increasingly popular in Britain and the use of it is becoming widespread as an alternative to traditional materials like slate tiles or felt. A green or living roof is a roof or deck onto which vegetation is intentionally grown or habitats for wildlife are established.…

What’s a garden room when it’s at home anyway?

Studio, art room, sound-proofed music room, gym, granny annex, self-contained accommodation, outdoor dining room, beauty therapy room, guest bedroom, children’s play room, office…the list goes on! For many, the versatility of a garden room is nothing new; however you’d be surprised how many people we speak to still believe that garden buildings are reserved exclusively for storing spades and punctured paddling pools!…

Decibel Meter Survey

Some interesting facts about sound: Sounds consist of pressure waves. The intensity of sound is known as the sound pressure level, or SPL. The human ear can detect a wide range of sound pressure…

Kids grow up so fast – but garden rooms don’t!

We have noticed recently that more and more of our clients are purchasing our garden rooms with a progressive function plan in mind. What we mean by this is that instead of instituting a concrete purpose from the start, many people are looking to reflect their changing lives and needs through their garden room.…

The Extrarooms Garden Office Blog has arrived!

Welcome to the new and improved ExtraRooms garden office blog! We’re very excited to finally have somewhere where we can both update you on all the exciting projects we are continually doing and get involved in the world of garden building enthusiasm! You never know, we might even be able to impart some of the knowledge we’ve collected designing, building and installing garden rooms over the past few decades!…

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