Apex Garden Room

Within our workshops, we house our own Joinery Works where we make the doors for our Garden Rooms.

Our doors are constructed from hemlock, which is a timber particularly suitable for doors, as apart from being durable, it is far less susceptible to movement and warping than other timbers traditionally used for doors.

The Garden Room doors are three quarter double-glazed using 4mm toughened safety glass, finished with polished brass or chrome furniture, a 5 lever mortise lock and fitted with draught excluders. 

You can opt for leaded, Georgian style or plain glass within your doors. 

With our Garden Rooms, you can have double doors, an extra door set, or a solid joinery door (if you have a storage partition as part of your design). You can also have an internal door to access another partition.

To afford a light and airy feel our Garden Rooms come with 4 sets of windows. 

The windows are all double glazed with 4mm toughened safety glass, they are all opening, and are finished with polished brass or chrome furniture and fitted with draught excluders. 

You can choose from plain, leaded or Georgian-style windows.

Our Garden Rooms come with your choice of roof covering: select either Cedar Shingle Tiles or Slate Effect Roofing Tiles in terracotta or grey. Both of these roof coverings add longevity to your Garden Building, they don't require much maintenance, and they are attractive and sit harmoniously in outdoor settings.

Our timber cladding is machined from very high quality Redwood grown in Northern Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle.

Due to the low temperature in this part of the world, these slowly grown trees produce a much more dense and stable timber than others. The timber mill we partner with, and have very close links to, is FSC® certified like ourselves.

We machine our cladding into particularly thick boards, and because it's a slowly grown timber with an exceptionally close grain, the additional benefits of our cladding are its strength and durability. We machine a capillary groove into our shiplap to reduce the risk of water ingress; and also give our shiplap rounded edges so that paints and stains grab and adhere with maximum effectiveness and coverage.

We clad your building in shiplap as standard, but we also offer weatherboard cladding for a more rustic finish.

All our Garden Rooms are fully lined and insulated (walls, ceiling and floor) as standard. This allows you to use your new building all through the year, it also increases comfort and decreases noise levels, as well as finishes the building in a beautiful manner.

Insulation

For the roof we have a 4 tier lining and insulation process; we insulate between the ply layer and the internal matchboard tongue and groove lining and finish the building with your choice of roofing material. For the walls, we insulate your building by trapping a breathable paper membrane between the studwork, which acts as a moisture trap before filling in with insulation. 

There are then 2 options for lining your Garden Room: natural matchboarding, or painted matchboarding. To have it painted, you can choose our own Ivory internal paint colour, or choose between 5 Farrow & Ball paint colours. 

Our standard (ex 19mm thick) and robust floorboards are set on closely spaced tanalised floor joists, but we can also offer heavy duty (ex 38mm thick) flooring if you are planning on storing particularly heavy items or if there's going to be a lot of movement inside your new Garden Building.

As well as choosing between floorboard thickness, you can also choose to have either a lacquered finish on your floor, or you can add engineered flooring.

Lacquered Floor

Having a lacquered floor is included in the price of our Garden Rooms. The lacquer is applied to the floorboards in either Natural or Light Oak to help protect the timber, as well as giving it a nice sheen.

Engineered Flooring

This option can be chosen as an alternative to a lacquered floor. There are four different natural colours to choose from, and the engineered flooring offers a chance to further personalise your new garden building, whether you’re aiming for a traditional, rustic or contemporary style. 

Our engineered floorboards sit on top of the existing floorboards, with a layer of underlay in between the two, providing further insulating and sound absorbing benefits.

For lighting and using any equipment in your building, you will get an electric pack with a heater included with your Garden Room to enable you to use it all year-round.

Professionally fitted by qualified electricians who take all the wiring to a consumer unit ready for you to connect to your electricity supply. Internal wiring will be fitted behind the internal lining. 

To add extra versatility to your Garden Room, we also offer the option of adding partitions. You can have an external-access partition, which is generally used to add a storage or pool pump room, or you can have an internal partition or partitions, allowing you to add extra rooms, such as a toilet, or or changing room that can be accessed inside.

To finish off your Garden Room, you can also opt to have guttering to help catch excess rainfall off the roof, and choose to have Velux® windows in the roof to allow extra natural light inside.

Guttering

Guttering collects the water run-off from the roof and then deposits the water away from the building: this stops the bottom boards rotting prematurely, adding an even longer life to your building. We offer the guttering in either black or white.

When installed, we fix the guttering and downpipe along the lowest side/eave of the roof, and the addition of guttering also allows you to install a water butt..

Velux® Windows

Velux® windows can be fitted in the roof of our Garden Rooms to help allow more light into your building. These are especially helpful if the building is to be installed in an enclosed area, to allow light in through the roof.