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Build Progress Cladding Phase 4 Walls

All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built

Jun 13, 2020 Shaun

The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…

Build Progress Equipment and Tools Phase 4 Walls

Scorching Machine is Complete

May 30, 2020 Stephen

It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…

Site Maintenance

Berm All Finished

May 13, 2020 Shaun

The task of rebuilding the Berm continued over Monday, Tuesday and finally Wednesday. We wanted the Berm to be high enough to stop the majority of the rain water that…

Build Progress

Larch scorching machine progressing

May 10, 2020 Stephen

You may remember that we have decided to lightly scorch all of our larch cladding to give the walls more texture both visual and physical. We are using an ancient…

Site Maintenance

Widen and Flatten Out the Driveway Berm

May 9, 2020 Shaun

In a very disrupted couple of weeks .. we had steady rain all last week from Tuesday to Friday and some on Saturday afternoon too (a total of about 25mm…

Build Progress Phase 4

We are Weather tight! All Window Frames installed and “glazed”

Apr 25, 2020 Shaun

Continuing from Wednesday, with the guttering job done, we got on with installing our oak window frames. Over the next three days, we took each frame, test fitted it (making…

Build Progress Guttering Phase 4 Roof

Finished Bringing Gutters Back to Fresh Colours and All Oiled

Apr 21, 2020 Shaun

We started the week with the continuing task of cleaning the gutters and fascia. After being exposed to the sun and weather for at least 5 months and in some…

Build Progress Guttering Phase 4 Roof

Inspecting the Gutters, Sealed the Metal Mesh Edge and Starting to clean and oil them.

Apr 18, 2020 Shaun

We started our week on a Tuesday after having a day off for Easter. We finished off applying the black yukky mastic stuff to the top edge of the Slate…

Build Progress Phase 4 Walls

Slate Skirt Complete

Apr 11, 2020 Shaun

By Tuesday lunch time, we had finished gluing up all the Slates that forms the Skirt on the wall running right around the house. Some 300 slates were stuck onto…

Repair Site Maintenance

Garden Shed Finally Gets its Roof Repaired!

Apr 9, 2020 Shaun

On Thursday, we had noticed that the old roofing felt on the Garden Shed was loose and flapping about and this prompted us to decide that we ought to finish…

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  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Design
    • Electricity
    • Energy
      • Solar Electricity
      • Solar Thermal
    • First Floor
    • Garage
    • Ground Floor
    • Ground Works
    • Roof
    • Site
    • Ventilation
    • Walls
    • Water
      • Rain Water
      • Sewage
  • Find Us
  • Pictures
    • Material Samples
    • Temporary Building
  • Plans
    • Structural Engineer Apr 2013
    • Groundworks September 2010
    • Building control May 2010
    • Planning April 10
    • Planning October 09
    • Planning August 2009
  • Tasks
  • Webcam Feed