This September may have been the driest since UK weather records began, but the rain-dance was called off this week when we were inundated with autumn showers. Excitingly, we are now about a month away from completion of our eco build project. This week saw the delivery of our rainwater harvesting (RWH) tanks, monster great containers […]
Our most recent ‘Which Way is Green?’ dilemma has thrown up a frustrating lack of choice in the UK when it comes to ‘healthy’ building products. Having set our hearts on a gorgeous Botticino honed marble which we sourced ourselves instead of using an ‘off the shelf’ Baufritz flooring, we also needed to source a […]
Whilst the Baufritz team beaver away on the first fix of electrics and plumbing and Joe’s team are building the new garage to house our biomass boiler, we are reflecting on the amazing team achievement of building a timber frame house in five days. This YouTube film captures the anticipation and excitement we all felt […]
We now have a fabulous new eco house! After almost four years of planning and preparation, it works out you can actually build an eco house in one minute. Would you believe it? This timelapse film shows the rapid construction of Sky House Sussex in under five breath-taking days. The process was every bit as […]
The first day of construction of Sky House Sussex was an unbelievable thrill to watch. No wonder the ratings figures for Grand Designs are always so high when timber framed houses are featured. There is something endlessly fascinating about seeing part of your new house suspended high in the air dangling from a massive 40 […]
In feverish anticipation of our sustainable Baufritz house finally ‘arriving’ from Germany on Tuesday next week, we’ve put together this time lapse film of the past three months on site. You can watch the groundworks and foundations for our two storey eco home and guest accommodation being laid in just 2 minutes, at 24 frames […]
It’s just one week now until the Baufritz construction team start assembling our eagerly anticipated low carbon timber framed house and guest accommodation here in Lewes. The Sky House Sussex site was humming with activity today as the finishing touches to the slab (damp coursing and extra thick ground level insulation) were made by Joe […]
St. George’s Day 2014 and the bluebells are blooming. It is extraordinary to think we are now less than two weeks from seeing our eco house and guest accommodation assembled on site over a matter of days. This has been four years in the making! We first saw the plot back in 2010 since when […]
On Friday we poured the main part of the slab using three concrete lorries operating a relay system between Lewes and Hailsham where Peter Woods and his team from Woods Concrete Pumps have their plant. From first thing in the morning, the site was buzzing with activity and the heavy clunk-clunk-whirr of machinery. Each lorry […]
April 1st and it’s just over a month now until our timber framed eco house is delivered from Baufritz in Germany so it’s been wonderful watching the foundations going down. These photos show you what Joe, Sam and Graham have accomplished in ten days as they work tirelessly to prepare the site for the second […]