Our roundup below shows dozens of companies and shops that sell prefabs which are perfect for dedicated backyard work areas. Therefore it is crucial that there is an easy path to your backyard, which might involve moving fencing and trimming back bushes as needed.Īssuming that getting the prefab building into your desired place will not be too much work, a prefab might be the perfect option for you. They will already be assembled, meaning they are not too easy to move into position.
Labor costs will also be lower because there will be an element of a ‘production line’ to speed up time spent on each building, compared to building on-site which will invariably take longer per building.Īs mentioned earlier, prefabs will arrive on the back of a truck. Prefabs can also be cheaper than the other options, because the factory will be specifically geared up to build, finish and paint your backyard office – meaning that the fixed costs at each building stage will be lower. As you can imagine, this is very convenient because instead of having to spend ages sourcing materials and building a backyard studio, a completed one will literally arrive on the back of a truck.
A prefab backyard shed (or one big enough to use as an office workspace) will therefore arrive to your house already built, with doors and windows pre-hung and it will already be painted. ‘Prefab’ is short for ‘prefabricated’, meaning a building which is assembled in a factory before being transported (in a finished state) to the particular site where the building is situated. I like the deeper window sills.What Are Prefab Backyard Offices/Studios? They feel more substantial and home-like to me. Frankly, I would never build or buy a 2 x 4 structure again. Since I like cold-temperature sleeping (around 50 F), I’m fine with the Tuff shed, expect in the winter I sleep in the main house, because the Tuff shed just costs extra to heat and gets much colder.
The bonus is that in the summer, although the bedroom gets much hotter during the day, it also cools down faster at night then the owner-built (by the original owner) main house which stays warmer at night, partly because of the thermal mass of the stucco perhaps. I also didn’t use a vapor barrier or any kind of sheet wrap. Because the bedroom Tuff shed addition is R11, with no floor insulation except a thin rubber sheet above the OSB on the floor and below the Pergo, the room is freezing in the winter, and I don’t sleep there. ft, conventional frame, 2×6″ studs with R19 insulation and less window area. Since I did it alone, I broke a large piece into three, which meant more joint taping/plastering to do, but it came out okay. Although I like the gambrel roof and high ceiling on the interior, drywall is not easy to do holding the pieces at an angle up on a ladder. Some other things I might mention about my Tuff Shed experience.
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