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…
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…
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…
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,…
