A secluded workout space for Bogdan

Project Details

Bogdan's Rickmansworth Gym

Location

Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

Type

Garden Gym

Scope

Heavy-use gym with A/C, reinforced floor, and full landscaping

Planning

Permitted Development

Subcontracted?

Never

A serious gym, built to perform.

Bogdan’s gym in Rickmansworth was never going to be a casual space. With weight racks and resistance machines forming the core of the brief, the structure had to be built accordingly. The floor was engineered to handle the point loads created by heavy equipment, and the rear wall was clad in full height mirror to give the room an unmistakable gym feel from the moment you walk in.

Climate control was treated as a necessity rather than an afterthought. The Samsung air conditioning system installed by Primrose carries a five-year manufacturer’s warranty and can be operated remotely via a smartphone app, making it easy to have the room at the right temperature before a session begins.

Turnkey means the client handles nothing.

Bogdan’s preferred location for the gym sits on a rising section of the garden. Some builders would have stopped there and asked the client to arrange levelling works independently. Primrose does not work that way. The site was assessed, and rather than flatten the ground, the room was positioned to sit naturally at the elevated level with steps leading up to the entrance. It suits the seclusion of the spot and removed unnecessary groundworks entirely. All associated landscaping was handled by the same team, start to finish, with no coordination burden left to the client.

About Primrose

20 +

Years' Construction Experience

5.0★

Google Rating

10yr

Senior Craftsmen Tenure

£5m+

Total Value of Projects Completed

Gallery

The project in pictures.

The floor was designed to take the point loads created by the weight racks and resistance machines. The rear wall is clad with full height mirror to give the space an unmistakable gym-like feel.

Air conditioning is a must for a garden gym and the Samsung system installed by Primrose has a manufacturers warranty of five years and can be controlled remotely via a smart phone app.

Some garden room builders insist on a level site and leave it to the client to arrange the levelling works separately. The primrose philosophy put the client’s needs at the centre of everything they do. Accordingly, all associated landscaping can be completed by the team to provide a seamless turnkey service. Bogdan’s garden rises up at the preferred garden room location, but it is also in a very secluded and shielded spot. It was therefore decided that the garden room could sit higher with steps leading up to the gym thereby removing the need to level the site.

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