Welcome to our blog.

This blog will follow the ultimate in home improvement: demolish and rebuild!

This is our starting point: a 1930s bungalow. While not a bad house; it is too small for us with three teenage children so what should we do? A full storey extension versus complete rebuild - ultimately the stronger eco-credentials and more certain finances of a new-build helped to guide our choice.

For a number of years we've been trying to find the right route for us to build an eco-friendly, low energy home. We tried various architects and building companies and have eventually settled with a German prefabricated build. The new house will be nearly to passivhaus standards (but not quite due to budget constraints). In any case, the house will be heavily insulated and airtight.

As a family, we have not built a house before so everything is new and exciting but the risk of making a mess of things is quite high!

This blog aims to outline the day to day steps involved in our build.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

Where have the electricity cables gone?

We had then to organise (thanks to the electrician) a ground worker to trace the cables from the house until clear of the location of the future foundation, dig a big hole and run a trench to the fence for a temporary supply.

Cue James and Jerry and Jerry, they arrived with a cute digger. Fantastic work!
Thankfully the cables didn't branch off to the neighbours, phew! That would have meant further delays and cost implications.
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