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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
