#Woodlands 3/6

Going up

The plinth walls are growing. The picture above shows the corner detail. You can see the damp proof course (DPC) lying over the damp...

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Building Regulations require a free airflow below suspended ground floors of at least 1500mm2 per metre run of wall. We are positioning...

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Mark spoke with Mr Kitcatt, Building Control Manager for Purbeck District Council, this morning. Mr Kitcatt is happy with the calcs for...

Following our visit to Vision in Reading earlier this month (see The Good, the bad and the ugly) we had been feeling more optimistic...

Yesterday morning the DriTherm 37 cavity slabs to insulate the plinth walls were delivered. All this insulation for just two 12m long 1m...

Elsa and I returned from our morning walk to find that the remainder of our order had been delivered. We now have enough blocks to...

The delivery of our dense concrete blocks, a bulk bag of builder's sand and 6 bags of cement was scheduled for today. Because of the...

... chronicles the building of a strawbale house to replace a WWII Portal bungalow in rural Dorsetshire.