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How to build an eco house in one minute
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 […]
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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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Solar-power GoPro creates groundworks in a flash
Do you think it’s desirable, or even possible, to be green and hi-tech on an everyday basis? As the name of our blog implies, the aim of our project is to find greener ways to live and build. Through our build choices, we hope to show readers and visitors to Sky House Sussex that ‘green’ […]
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Thanks neighbours for being cool
Christmas Eve 2013 and it’s all quiet on the site for the start of the holiday season. We wanted to express our gratitude to our neighbours for their patience during this project. It was fun creating the sign with a neighbour’s daughter and her friend who enthusiastically jumped into the paints! From the start of […]
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Eco houses: from sceptic to convert
By Sophie Isachsen, Business Manager at Sky House Sussex, working with owner Amy Burgess: As a dyed in the wool lover of old, characterful (leaky, creaky) brick-built Victorian and Edwardian houses, I was sceptical when my Scandinavian husband suggested we build a brand new timber framed eco house. It took a huge leap of faith […]