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Golf simulator rooms

A garden room designed around your simulator. We’d love to build one.

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Photo: one of our garden rooms. We haven’t built a golf simulator room yet.

Our first golf simulator room is still to come.

We’ll be honest: we haven’t built a golf simulator room yet. It’s one we’d really love to design and build.

It would be planned with you around your simulator and how you’ll use it, and built using the same timber-frame methods as a new home, so you can play all year round.

  • South Oxfordshire
  • Test Valley
  • Berkshire
  • Surrey

A design idea

A design idea, not a past project: how a simulator room could be laid out.

Illustration Hand-drawn design idea for a golf simulator room, not a past project. A cutaway under a pitched roof with exposed timber trusses shows a padded acoustic bay with a large impact screen and LED strip lighting, a turf floor with a hitting mat, a slatted timber wall with screens, and a bar and sofa with a TV. An exploded build-up and a long section sit alongside.
Panel 1 of 4: main sketch Panel 2 of 4: exploded build-up Panel 3 of 4: long section Panel 4 of 4: wall build-up and notes
Click the sheet to see it full size.Tap a panel to see it full size.

What would come as standard

This is the specification on the garden rooms we build. A simulator room would start from here, with the height and space planned around your simulator.

Frame
A bespoke timber frame, made for your room, with an optional decorative dwarf brick wall.
Base
A concrete slab or ground screws.
Insulation
PIR insulation in the floor, and Actis Hybrid in the walls and ceiling.
Roof
A flat EPDM roof, or a pitched roof in tiles or metal sheet.
Glazing
Korniche glazing in Matt Anthracite Grey, RAL 7016.
Cladding
Cladding from Southgate Timber, Millboard or Cladco.
Flooring
Waterproof LVT flooring from Oake & Gray.
Walls and ceilings
Plastered and painted in Dulux white.
Electrics
Done by our dedicated electrical team, signed off and connected to your house’s main board.
Heating
Smart electric heaters, sized to suit the space.
Plumbing
For bars, toilets and bathrooms, including mains connections.
Outside
On request: patios, decking, snugs and covered areas, planting areas and paths.

We’ll look at planning with you at the design stage.

What this room needs

A golf simulator room asks far more of a building than a garden office. These are the points we design around from the first visit.

  1. Height for a full swing

    Typically 2.7 to 3.0m or more inside, depending on the system, which usually means planning permission.

  2. Width and depth

    Makers typically suggest about 4 to 4.6m wide and 5 to 6m deep, or around 3m by 4.2m for compact systems.

  3. A flat, solid floor

    Typically dead level and solid, with the mat set flush, and walls built to take the screen and enclosure.

  4. Power where the kit sits

    Circuits for the projector, PC and launch monitor by our dedicated electrical team, with internet as an extra.

  5. Light and sound

    Windows kept off the screen, and noise kept in, typically with a screen hung clear of the wall and sealed doors.

  6. Planning and building control

    We help with planning permission or a Lawful Development Certificate, and handle building control sign-off on larger rooms.

How we compare with a factory room

Design your garden room

Choose a use, a size and your finishes, and watch your room take shape. When you’re happy, send it over and we’ll arrange a site visit to talk it through.

Step 1 of 7What will you use it for?

Pick the main use. You can tell us about anything else at the end.

Step 2 of 7Size, roof and structure

A rough idea is fine. We’ll measure up properly when we visit.

Roof

Structure

Step 3 of 7Cladding

The outside face of the building, and the biggest choice in how it looks. We use cladding from three suppliers.

Southgate Timber

Millboard Envello Shadow Line+

Cladco Signature Composite Wall Cladding

Step 4 of 7Doors and windows

All from Korniche, finished in Matt Anthracite Grey (RAL 7016).

Doors

Windows

Which sides? Choose as many as you like.

Daylight from above

Step 5 of 7Inside

Flooring

Waterproof LVT from the Oake & Gray range. Swatches are a guide only, so ask us for samples.

Also available in herringbone

Lighting & plumbing

Included as standard

  • Electrics by our dedicated electrical team, fully signed off and connected to your home’s main board
  • Smart electric heaters, sized to suit the room
  • PIR insulation in the floor, with Actis Hybrid in the walls and ceiling
  • Walls plastered and painted in Dulux white throughout
  • A bespoke timber frame on a concrete slab or ground screws, whichever suits your ground
Step 6 of 7Outside

We can build the space around it too, from patios, decking and paths to planting areas, snugs and covered areas.

Decking

Southgate Timber

Millboard Enhanced Grain 176mm

Cladco ProDeck Composite Decking

Around the building

Lighting

Step 7 of 7Your details

We’ll be in touch to arrange a site visit and talk your design through.

See our privacy policy for how we use your details.

Rather talk? Call us on 07846 796056 or email info@watsonanddalton.com.

Golf simulator room questions

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Not yet, but we’d like to. It would be built the same way as our other garden rooms.

There are no standard sizes. We’d design it around your simulator, how you’ll use it and the space you have.

Yes, as standard. Our dedicated electrical team does all the electrics, signed off and connected to your house’s main board.

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