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Category Archives: Cladding
Now 2016 and just over 3 years
Yes, over 3 years now and still going strong. Now starting to burn some of the -relatively little – left-overs from building the house which I cut down to size and stacked last spring. The off-cuts from the cladding – … Continue reading
Posted in Cladding, Log burner, Solar thermal
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More Publicity!
Fame (though not fortune!) seems to have struck – again. No sooner had the 6 minutes of BBC fame begun to die down than our local MP, Sir Alan Haselhurst, came to see the house. Together with Dunmow Broadcast reporter … Continue reading
Posted in Cladding, Thermal mass, Ventilation, Windows, Zero Carbon House
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Weeks Twenty-four to Twenty-eight
Got seriously behind with this – sorry. So four weeks in one. The plastering – and odd bits of plasterboarding/tacking – press steadily on. This is taking very much longer than originally expected, largely because there’s only one person doing … Continue reading
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Weeks Nineteen and Twenty
The site is surveyed to see where the phone line should go. This was more of a learning experience than I’d expected. It’s not much use asking BT because you won’t find a number to call to say “I need … Continue reading
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Weeks Seventeen and Eighteen
Another rush of progress, but in curious fits and starts. One moment the site is full of activity, the next there’s hardly anyone here doing anything. We’ve made it clear that we’re not aiming for a particular date, so we … Continue reading
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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