I Started Building the SIP Panel Walls... — EP 6

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:03]Bosch, welcome to episode number six of the garden room build.

[00:00:10]In this video, I will begin building the walls out of these SIP panels.

[00:00:15]Here, I am moving some of the SIP panels because the SIP panels which I need to begin building the wall are not at the top of the pile, so I need to take the ones off the top to get to the ones that I need.

[00:00:32]So, you'll now see me try and stick a piece of timber into where the insulation is of the SIP panel. This is what I'm using to measure out the panels in which I [music] will start building the walls with.

[00:00:48]This makes it easier because as all the SIP panels are all different sizes, >> [music] >> by starting to use SIP panels that are all the same thickness will >> [music] >> allow me to get the hang of working with SIP panels.

[00:01:02]The way that I know which SIP panel to put where is because I built the whole garden room in CAD using the thickest panels on the walls and the thinnest ones on the roof and the leftover ones as the floor.

[00:01:21]On the screen now, you can see the garden room which I built in CAD, which I am trying to follow as best as I can in real life.

[00:01:31]So, the way that I created this was I measured all the SIP panels that I have and then I then replicated them in CAD.

[00:01:40]I then maneuvered them all around into an assembly in which I liked using the thick ones on the walls and the thinner ones on the roof.

[00:01:50]I also measured the French doors and the windows and then I put them in and And I filled all the gaps using the remaining SIP panels.

[00:02:00]Now what you can see is I am laying a damp proof course, which is a plastic strip which sits between the blocks and the sole plate. And you can see I'm using Pythagoras' theorem to make sure that the sole plate is perpendicular.

[00:02:19]Shout out to my year seven maths teacher.

[00:02:23]It is important that my sole plate is perpendicular because otherwise my garden room will end up not being a rectangle.

[00:02:32]Here you can see me attempting to drill a hole through concrete using my Bosch drill driver, which is clearly not working because it's not powerful enough.

[00:02:44]So therefore, I went to my uncle's house and picked up his drill. And this is a big boy powerful hammer drill and it has no problem eating through all this concrete.

[00:02:56]Unfortunately, because I'm such a muffet, I got a drill bit which was too short, which meant that the drill bit kept getting pushed into the drill and getting jammed. This meant that I had to mess around with a clamp to try and get it out. And eventually, I went and got a longer drill bit, which worked fine.

[00:03:19]So the purpose of the sole plate, which I am bolting to the blocks, is to sit the SIPs on and then I can screw through the SIPs into the sole plate and it will hold it upright.

[00:03:32]So now I have cut the SIP and I have got the sole plates in the right place. The next job is to get the first SIP in place.

[00:03:44]So what you can see here is me struggling to move it because it's big and heavy and it's hot, but eventually, I managed to get it in position.

[00:03:56]I was advised by some YouTube videos and ChatGPT to use expansion foam.

[00:04:03]So, here I'm messing around with some expansion foam.

[00:04:06]I don't like it. It gets everywhere.

[00:04:09]I've still got it on my hands. It got all over my shoes. It's so sticky.

[00:04:14]Um I don't think I'm going to use it much anymore.

[00:04:20]This is where I learned to adjust the saw depth of circular saw for the first time.

[00:04:28]I'm probably making it look a lot harder than it actually is. But, the reason that I did this was so that I could cut a little notch out of the SIP that I've just placed, so it would fit snug in between the sole plates.

[00:04:49]So, I finished off removing the remaining OSB using a chisel and hammer.

[00:04:54]And bosh, you can see it slipped [music] right into place.

[00:05:09]Thanks for watching up until this point in the video. If you've liked it so far, please feel free to leave a like or subscribe.

[00:06:09]>> So, this is pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the next couple weeks.

[00:06:13]I'll be cutting the SIP panels, fixing the sole plates to the block wall, and getting the walls all in place.

[00:08:07]>> If you made it up to this point in the video, thank you for watching. In the next video, I don't even know what I'll be doing. Hopefully all the walls will be up and I'll be fitting the French doors and windows. I'm not sure, but stay tuned cuz it will be good.