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Timelapse captures groundworks and foundations in the blink of an eye
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 […]
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How eco can you go? The house becomes one with the land
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 […]
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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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Pour it on! The slab goes down
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 […]
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Laying the foundations strip by strip
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 […]
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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 […]