Site preparation
Preparing our self-build site It was the start of the new year and we were happy in the knowledge that we’d got a few months of engineering calculations before we…
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Video – Complete site clearance
So to save you any kind of drain on your time we have distilled the last year and a half of site clearance down to a handy pocket-sized 2 minute…
Some slow site progress
So with the project about to move into the realms of big things happening (big diggers, big lorries and big cranes) we’ve just quietly been getting on with some smaller,…
You know it is your nature, Nature Boy
Looking through the site progress in the blog, it’s all starting to look like a typical building site where the area is turned into some kind of muddy hell, all…
Site clearing
Knowing that our planning application and subsequent appeal would take forever we made busy with getting to grips with our site. Most of the plot being the ubiquitous blackthorn and…
Hedging our bets
If you’re going to clear a site of plant life (even a site as bereft of wildlife as ours) then you’ll want to be re-planting to provide the right habitat…
The plot thickens
Or, to put it another way, if you turn your back for five minutes on blackthorn it will put out suckers to start a new tree or simply just keep…
Losing the (self build) plot
Finding our self build plot “It’s a carrot!” “!?!!” “It looks like a giant carrot!” Maybe not the best way to start focusing in on your dream self build plot,…
