We've had a hectic week on the build and filming! Neil Littleworth has been and done the first fix plumbing and GRM Electrical Services have made a start on the first fix electrics. We've had two lots of filming including a presenter catch up with Charlie Luxton (i'll cover the Charlie catch up in the next blog).
As part of "Building the Dream" we had the opportunity to have a nosey around another self built home that is going to be similar in construction to ours. The house is quite a bit bigger than ours will be, with a lot more oak throughout but it is finished in weatherboard and it has given us feel for what ours will be like at the end. Emma showed us around her home, which felt very warm and homely with a country cottage feel throughout. They have used flooring to make the house flow from the entrance into the kitchen/diner/snug looking and this is something we will look at carefully as we decide on the flooring.
Although ours isn't going be a country cottage style, there were some nice features that either reinforced decisions we had made (like galvanised steel guttering) or gave us something to think about. We had been considering oak ledge and brace doors and these look great with pewter iron mongery (although it might not be what we end up with, but i'll talk about that next blog). They also had solid flooring throughout including bedrooms and seeing this in reality, made me realise that maybe Fliss wasn't wrong with the fact that this can work... We are also (after seeing the stone floor tiles) going to look again at tiles in the main living space, because polished concrete is looking too cost prohibitive at the moment. Another potential cost saving option is to use white skirting and architrave? It is something we were looking at, but seeing how they did theirs works quite well against oak.
In the next blog I am going tell you about our day with Charlie Luxton and some more ideas along with giving you more of a look at the inside of the house, our plans and some of the changes made.
As part of "Building the Dream" we had the opportunity to have a nosey around another self built home that is going to be similar in construction to ours. The house is quite a bit bigger than ours will be, with a lot more oak throughout but it is finished in weatherboard and it has given us feel for what ours will be like at the end. Emma showed us around her home, which felt very warm and homely with a country cottage feel throughout. They have used flooring to make the house flow from the entrance into the kitchen/diner/snug looking and this is something we will look at carefully as we decide on the flooring.
Holly Cottage, New Radnor
Following advice of the plumber we decided to do first fix plumbing in a couple of stages so we can progress along with other works.
Copper pipes for the bath run through the stud wall timbers to keep them hidden.
We'll need to box in this section in afterwards
The soil pipe is left part in place to allow clean cuts for plasterboarding
In the next blog I am going tell you about our day with Charlie Luxton and some more ideas along with giving you more of a look at the inside of the house, our plans and some of the changes made.
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