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Rainwater harvesting tanks in time for Autumn downpours
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 […]
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Nearly ready for D-Day: Grand Designs eat your heart out
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 […]
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Shaping up nicely: preparing for foundations
We now have a fantastic impression of the size and shape of the house from the shuttering which Joe and team have constructed. This ‘wooden box’ around the footprint will house the foundations. Because the house will be earth-sheltered and sunk down so far below the original ground level, Joe’s challenge is to make a […]
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February and the tempo is frenetic
Did you know that over three million people watch Grand Designs, 100,000 subscribe to websites announcing available plots of land, and a similar number buy self-build magazines?* Or that by contrast, just 12,000 self-build homes are completed in the UK each year – or 7.6 per cent of new housing supply?** Reading these figures, we’re well […]