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Well the new house build continues at its own pace – slow and steady! It now actually looks like a real house and its all very exciting to see. We’re very happy with the changes we made that caused all the delays as they have undoubtedly improved the look externally and also had a big [...]

After an agonising 14 week period of inactivity, the self build roars back into life. The reasons for the delay are too long and too depressing to go into but suffice to say we were badly let down by other parties. The good news is that new design has resulted in substantial improvements and the [...]

After almost 6 weeks of continuous sleep I feel able to return to the world. Well 6 weeks down the line and my new house must be cracking on? Well nope. Exactly nothing has happened due to a ‘problem’ with roof truss designs. Except when we finally pinned the builder down for a meeting it [...]

Much to my complete and utter disbelief the builders have been cracking on at a great pace. Not only are the foundations dug, the concrete been poured and a decent amount of brick work been laid – they have also started building the kit onsite. Quite incredible really considering our concerns in relation to the [...]

And about time too! The foundations are dug and hopefully concrete is getting poured as I write. Never thought a hole in the ground could be so exciting.

So you’d think that considering you’re spending hundreds of thousands of pounds that your builder would maybe return your calls and perhaps want to arrange a start date? You would think that wouldnt you!

One of the major hurdles on the road to our new home has been covered. Our amended plans have received approval. It’s been a long, long time since we decided to make some ammendments to our plans and its been a thoroughly depressing and demotivating period as we were kept totally in the dark by [...]