Opening up the hull
Cutting out the first access door in the side of the barge With all of the steel we’ve been cutting out, inside the barge, alongside the piles of dirt that…
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Cut it out
Starting the process of cutting out some steel One major part of the project at this early stage is the cutting out of the two large bulkheads that separate…
Rust removal
Getting to grips with 90 years of rust With a project that is anything else but straight forward, life has recently decided to also put it’s own special spanner in…
Can we dig it?
Can we dig it? Yes, we can! Or, more accurately, yes we need to in order to move the project along. Having held out ’till the end of the year,…
Video – Barge tour
In case you don’t follow us on YouTube we’ve just uploaded a quick barge tour video to our channel for all to see. I would normally do a post here…
The caterpillar has entered the chrysalis
Though it would appear that we have done NOTHING on our project for the whole of the summer, the truth is more mundane. The day after our barge was delivered…
Special delivery
Our Thames barge finally makes it to site So it’s true what they say – time flies when your stress levels are off the scale and you can’t sleep for…
Barge lift
Lifting our barge for its last great journey… So – the scene was set. On the very day that the building-works started on the land where we were to do…
We need to talk about the planning process
There is one area of creating your own dream (nightmare?) home that you never see on television – the mind-numbingly long and unhelpful full planning application process. Then again, it…
Put yer backs into it!
A few weeks after viewing our potential new home and we returned to clear out some of the debris in the barge to allow our surveyor a chance to check…
We’re Future Sailors…
Having known for a year-and-a-half that we intended to convert a barge into our new home we’ve had plenty of time to watch the market and see any number of…
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,…
