A sight for sore eyes
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...
Kicking up a dust
The top of the plinth wall is 5 block courses above the surface of the block and beam floor. We need to bring the outer leaf walls and...
The shape of things to come
Vision have completed the first cruck. Yay!! #cruckframe #Woodlands #strawbalehouse
Hobson's Choice
There being a severe shortage of aircrete blocks, companies are charging a hefty premium for them and estimating the end of July at the...
The good, the bad and the ugly.
The Good We had a number of concerns about the build being achievable because of lack of detail on the architects drawings. The biggest...
Breaking up
Left over from the building of the foundation and block and beam floor is an area of concrete abutting the rear wall. This would be...
Blockhead-ache
Our order with B&Q Tradepoint for Toplite blocks was, as reported in the previous post, scheduled for delivery today. B&Q have just...
Yes! We have no aircrete blocks
We've spent the past 3 days trying to source aircrete blocks. First I tried to get Celcon blocks at a good price, then Celcon blocks at...
Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British
The first part of Dan Cruickshank's new series for the BBC looked at the construction of medieval cottages and included the construction...
Beam/Block floor complete
Steve put the finishing touches to the B&B sub-floor this morning and has now left the site. The next phase is the construction of the...
