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Author Archives: davidl
Week Eight
There was a day or two when the house briefly looked like something from the set of The Magnificent Seven—the pieces of cladding sticking out stepwise at the gable ends. As more is put into place it reverts to a … Continue reading
Week Seven
The second storey, under roof goes up. Better weather this week, with the last few days very cold but sunny and clear. The quagmire created by the forklift is frozen hard which makes moving around the site much easier and … Continue reading
Posted in Roof
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Week Six
They have had a really rotten week, last week, with the second half being really cold and wet—quite miserable. This photo, taken in the middle of this week shows how well they’ve got on and the weather’s better at the … Continue reading
Posted in Ground Floor, Precut wood
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Week Five
Two enormous articulated lorries are scheduled to arrive. To avoid conflict with school arrival time—the Primary School is just across the Green and the congestion can approach city centre proportions—the artics have been asked to arrive at 9.30 am and … Continue reading
Posted in Foundations
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Week Three and Four
Olof, from Sweden, had arrived to oversee insulation and the pouring and levelling of the slab—apparently this method of construction is far more common there than here. Ready for pouring the slab. The concrete pump returns. Again a stream of … Continue reading
Posted in Klargester, Sewage
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Week Two
The earth between the foundations is scraped off. A good deal of what was once garden is now a foot or two higher than it was. Edging pieces—concrete L-shaped pieces internally lined with expanded polystyrene are fixed all round the … Continue reading
Posted in Foundations, Underfloor heating
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Week One
After 18 month’s research, marking out finally starts. It’s really pretty exciting—but also rather frightening. I know what I want but have I been able to communicate that to the architect and builders? Then excavating the foundations with a large … Continue reading
Posted in Foundations
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Where we started
A little history: A few years ago we started getting letters through the post from developers offering to buy our garden—we’d suddenly come within the planning envelope. As the picture shows, there’s a patch of land beside our house which, … Continue reading
Posted in The project history
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At the beginning
So we’ve decided to build a new house, a zero carbon house. (See what I mean by this in the separate section). If we have to build ourselves a house, then let’s make it a bit different. After several false … Continue reading
Posted in The project history, Zero Carbon House
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