Roselea

Removed the concrete base of the old garage. Started by using demolition hammer then decided to try using the mini digger. The mini digger wouldn’t start! The battery had gone…

We received an email from the Planning officer to say that we have approval over the addition info we sent at the end of April. So No further planning issues…

We have sent in the plans and paid the fee (£541) to the local authority building control department. This is the first of two submissions relating the the build, this…

We were reading our planning permission again the other day and realised we had forgotten to send in the information it requested about building levels and boundary treatments. So I…

Sent the plans of the garage to the structural engineers today.

Paul Burrell of The Burrell Partnership in Norwich visted us today to discuss what we needed from a structural engineer. We had a fruitfull time and aggreed to retain Paul’s…

Have had a meeting with our building control officer this morning. A wide ranging discussion took place about our building plans. It loooks like we are not doing anything stupid…

I have been busy for a while sorting out all the below ground design for the house. This is now basically complete and just waiting for the structural engineer and…

We have been looking at the sample panels for the last few days. There is agrement that the Shakes look just a little too rustic… So it will be shingles…

We can’t decide exactly which style of Cedar to use to clad the walls. So we bought a bundle each of Shingles & Shakes and a few planks of Tounge and Groove…