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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
