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I am planning a small garden room build of 2.4x4.8m and was hoping to use 600mm stud centers with 11mm OSB sheathing and 90mm PIR to, not only, save on materials costs but recon this should also reduce thermal bridging. Since most ready-made garden shed typically have the same and given the extra rigidity of the OSB and insulation, I feel this should be good enough, but would like to hear from anyone who has experience having done similar or if there is some really obvious reason why this is a bad idea please.

Thanks in advance.

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My house whole timber framed first floor is built with 600 centres, but it does use 140 studs as opposed to 63 or 89. If you're using 90mm PIR then you'll want to be using the 140x38mm CLS or alternatively 145x45mm C16 anyway, so no problem at all. Just bear in mind that unless you specifically order 2400 x 1200 OSB, you'll be getting sheets that are 2440 x 1220 and will therefore need to shave them down when you sheath the frame.

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1 minute ago, SimonD said:

My house whole timber framed first floor is built with 600 centres, but it does use 140 studs as opposed to 63 or 89. If you're using 90mm PIR then you'll want to be using the 140x38mm CLS or alternatively 145x45mm C16 anyway, so no problem at all. Just bear in mind that unless you specifically order 2400 x 1200 OSB, you'll be getting sheets that are 2440 x 1220 and will therefore need to shave them down when you sheath the frame.

Thanks @SimonD I should have said, I am planning to use C16 47x95 stud, o fit the 90mm PIR and thanks for the tip on OSB size.

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That's exactly how I built our 2 "garden rooms", except ours are 4.8 x 3.0, and I used Rockwool (not as good, but cheaper and easier). Been 2 years now and no problems at all.

Have the osb on the inside and covered the outside with membrane and then featheredge, which seemed the cheapest solution.

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