tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85422620960727637732024-03-14T07:52:01.951-07:00Self Build House WhitstableFirst time self builders - on reflection, probably once in a life time only self builders!!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-48935795326963389892014-03-13T11:49:00.000-07:002014-03-13T12:01:24.581-07:00Stairs, windows and mmmm.... heatingLots going on now, we're just waiting on the large sliding glass doors, front door and back glazed door to complete the glazing.
The massive windows in our bedroom are now in - amazing!!
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Plastering inside is nearly complete with the painter following on behind and last week all the stair cases went in making moving around the house soooo much easier.
Here's Ruby sitting on the stairs to her mezzanine sleeping area looking decidedly more interested in her phone than anything else!
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Apparently I'm to paint the risers in ombre greens :-D
Here's the stairs in the spare bedroom -
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- the main staircase is in oak so it's now covered to protect it.
The plumbers have been busy and got the underfloor heating fired up over the weekend - what joy it was to see the plumes of vapour and feel the warmth permeate the house..
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Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-25079135235392421532014-02-21T13:01:00.000-08:002014-02-21T13:01:44.951-08:00February 14th PhotosThere's been a little more plastering, a few more windows gone in but it still feels slow. We are still waiting on the biggest bit of the glazing which is the sliding doors at the end of the dining room and the two huge windows which are the same size in the master bedroom which will open up to expose the views and also expose us should anyone in the houses below care to look up! We've been told that these should both be in by the first week in March so patience patience.....
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mess that is our house right now</td></tr>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-43573410818771513182014-02-19T15:17:00.000-08:002014-02-19T15:17:14.672-08:00January ProgressWell, January 2014 is upon us and we should've had our first Christmas in our new house but it was not to be .... so, the roof is pretty much finished although the garage is yet to be built as we needed to keep the space available for access, and the plasterers are in. Here's a few pics of what's going on inside.<br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-46114395008988339442014-01-16T13:22:00.000-08:002014-01-16T13:22:02.834-08:00December - bit of progress on the build and a bit of Christmas ... ooh and a bit of crochet<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-15875183897511585012014-01-16T11:18:00.001-08:002014-01-16T11:18:48.791-08:00Such a joy to see the beautiful slates going on. December 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-67330077518844243742014-01-16T11:11:00.001-08:002014-01-16T11:11:30.367-08:00Yay!! That's our House!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Spotted from the Primary School on the road below ours - with it's pink felt hat on... this was very exciting as we hadn't seen it from this angle before</div>
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And here's some action shots of Will spraying the soffits and facias at the workshop. This was in an endeavour to save us money and speed things up on the build....sadly it was weeks before they went up!</div>
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At the beginning of October, one sunny day, the very last steels were bought to site and carefully lowered in place </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why is it so fascinating watching a crane? The driver wasn't at all fascinated with what he was doing, when I arrived he looked like he had fallen asleep in his cab. Very funny later though when he couldn't get the truck out of the mud, he woke up then :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time to take a break and enjoy the satisfaction of the seeing the last steel in place </td></tr>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-1256012823849864442014-01-16T10:39:00.000-08:002014-01-16T10:39:56.870-08:00Progress on the Roof in September<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Once we had the joy of receiving the news from the planning department that we had been approved at the new height we were able to progress in earnest, happy in the knowledge that what we were building wouldn't have to be taken down or fought for.... in fact we could approach the site with a lightness of step and stand back and admire how lovely how house-to-be was looking...</div>
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A few photos showing the progress of roof trusses</div>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-65930243817632192742014-01-15T14:17:00.001-08:002014-01-15T14:17:52.160-08:00Roof Construction Pics during nail biting re-application <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-6017443331105616062014-01-15T14:00:00.002-08:002014-01-15T14:00:57.119-08:00The Height Issue and how it was ResolvedSo, back in July I left this blog with the news that our house had grown too high, not in fact by 400mm as I said in the last post but by well over a metre. If our house stood in splendid isolation you would never know but unfortunately it's very near it's neighbours and so the error was glaringly obvious!<br />
As I said previously, we decided that the most simple solution would be to alter the pitch of the roof so our architect provided us with new drawings to submit to the council as a non material amendment which should only take 2 weeks to go through. This was not the right thing to do!! After a week we received yet another call from the council to say that the change in pitch altered the look of the house too much and so they needed a complete new full application which would take another 2 months to be dealt with.... aaargh!! Back to the stomach churning! This would obviously cost us lots more and keep the build on hold for way longer plus the costs and practical conundrums of making the alterations.<br />
After much discussion and worry and more phone calls to the council we decided instead to submit a new full application at the new higher height and hope that we wouldn't receive objections. This was not totally straight forward because at the very same time we learnt that our architect had gone in to administration - it all happens on this build :(((<br />
We took the project to another local architect to make the new drawings and swiftly submit to the council - even more cost and talk of the builder taking away the scaffolding, portaloo etc because of the ongoing hire costs. After a few weeks we made the difficult decision to instruct the builder to pick up tools again and carry on as we'd had no signs of any objections being submitted. This was a particularly horrid few weeks though as the thought of paying for the roof construction with the chance of being made to take it down again was just so scary. Luckily it was the right decision and the relief was enormous when the application was passed - with NO objections too so what was that all about?!!!<br />
<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-32026803869722151132013-07-25T00:49:00.000-07:002013-07-25T00:49:51.687-07:00But, hey I love this photo :)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-25262081415913707132013-07-25T00:41:00.005-07:002013-07-25T00:41:56.587-07:00More frustration - can our nerves stand it?Well, three weeks ago today a crane was booked in to lift the first steels on to the roof and if that had happened we would now be well on the way to having a completed roof...... but No!!! - on this build things couldn't possibly be that simple!<br />
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Two days before the crane was due we took a call from our case officer at Canterbury City Council who told us that they'd been contacted by someone in the road who said that the house was too high - everything went on stop. We had to wait a nail biting week for a meeting on site with the case officer and our builders. Indeed, the tops of our walls on the gables had reached as high as the next door house which, on our plans, should have been 400mm lower. The builders have constructed as per the drawings and set the house as deep in the ground as it should be but the council insisted that we would have to put in a new planning application showing the house at the height it will be in relation to next door if we carry on building. With this option, we run the gauntlet of objections from locals (although we didn't receive a single objection to our original application) with a small risk of the application being refused and the expensive roof that we would've put up having to be taken down again. This just seemed too scary.<br />
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We contacted our architect who said he could revise the pitch of the roof from 45° to 31° which would bring us down sufficient to be the same height as next door. Will called the council to discuss this option and the case officer said she would be happy with this and we would only need to put in an application for a 'non material ammendment' which would be dealt with in the office (not out to the public) and that she would recommend passing it. So this is what we've done now.<br />
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The change of pitch won't make a vast amount of difference to the house as the roof was very high and I think that some of the vaulted ceilings would've felt vast. The bad side of all this is that it's taking a long time to make the amendments - the builder is finding the drawings from the architect to be missing important details, they also have to bring back the brickies to remove and cut some of the blocks and get the steel guys to change some of the details so all in all yet another very frustrating delay in what was meant to be a 40 week build ...... never again!!!<br />
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But.... 2 days ago on bank holiday Monday the sun shone over Whitstable and here's a photo taken by my good friend Emma of the view looking out from what will be our bedroom to cheer us all up...... some day soon the sun will shine again :)))))<br />
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Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-7524513079601106982013-05-21T04:27:00.001-07:002013-05-21T04:34:06.960-07:00First Floor Joists being Installed<div dir="ltr">
Came back from brief trip away to find that not only had the steels gone in but we're starting to get a ceiling to the ground floor. Interesting as some parts are open from the ground right up to the roof so we're starting to get the feel of what is going to be like with a partially ceilinged living room! </div>
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Here comes the start of the heavy engineering bit of the structure, all this extremely expensive steel work is to stop our house from ever being blown away in the event of a hurricane or even a tsunami. Of course all the other houses around that have stood for many many years without steel reinforcements will be blown/washed away and we'll be laughing and going nowhere!</div>
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This steel cross is on a diagonal wall that faces North East running up one corner of the dining area and master bedroom and is adjacent to the 3 meter wide windows. We would have liked a long slim window in here to mirror the one in the kitchen and to catch the morning rays but were told it wasn't possible by the architect because of the reinforcement - we're kicking ourselves now for not pushing this one as there definitely would've been a way around it and it would've been so nice - so instead we're just going to have to fill the space with some piece fabby piece of art...any offers?</div>
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In the foreground are the steels that will form the little bridge from the landing to Ruby's room<br />
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I love this picture below, these 2 birds were there the whole time I was visiting the site - it's like they thought we'd build the frame especially for them..."we love it up here, such great views... tweet tweet"<br />
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Addendum - maybe we could've gone and bought a Barrett Home if that's what we were motivated byAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-77484065877144093092013-05-17T04:18:00.000-07:002013-05-17T04:19:28.289-07:00Catch Up 5 - Few more pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-42319565849654132432013-05-17T03:57:00.001-07:002013-05-17T04:19:18.283-07:00Catch Up 4 - First Level of Scaffolding <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Bt the beginning of May the first level of scaffolding went up allowing us to walk round the property almost at first floor level but, rather more importantly allowing the brick layers to build a little higher!</div>
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See what a lovely skyline this makes looking from the front of the house - rather majestic methinks.</div>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-23870213214091197752013-05-17T00:17:00.000-07:002013-05-17T00:17:07.162-07:00Catch Up 3 - Walls are Coming Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Once the new brickies were on site they worked pretty fast bringing the walls up. These pictures show where we were by 24th April</div>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-20557337519948718012013-05-16T23:56:00.000-07:002013-05-16T23:56:16.090-07:00Catch Up 2 - Beam & Block FloorThis was a nice stage to reach - good to be able to stand and see the levels and to our delight the floor will be higher that we had imagined meaning great views from pretty much everywhere :)<br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-21529723033349380702013-05-16T23:45:00.000-07:002013-05-17T04:19:01.594-07:00Catch Up 1 - PhotosAm obviously very bad at this blog lark! Trouble is we have had lulls in the build for several reasons - weather - problems with details from structural engineer etc - and then I get fed up and don't want to write about it and by the time we're back on building I've almost forgotten that I'd decided to do this blog.<br />
Right now I've been encouraged on by a very kind lady, Nadia, who has featured this blog on her website in a list of 'Top 5 Inspirational Build Blogs'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">http://www.kensyard.co.uk/blog/2013/top-5-inspirational-self-build-blogs/ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b5b5b5; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">She has accurately described my blog as 'sporadic' but that is no excuse not to continue!</span><br />
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Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-73840470167419707182013-03-25T15:32:00.000-07:002013-03-25T15:32:38.248-07:00Attenuation Tank TediumThis for me is very very dull but I feel obliged to write about it briefly as it's been quite a big annoying issue for us;<br />
During the design stage, planning and working with our code assessor no mention was ever made to us that we would need an attenuation tank to reduce the flow of rain water into the public sewers. It was not included in the plans, costed or quoted for but when our builder met with our code assessor it was brought up as being a mandatory requirement! Why it was never mentioned by our architect I don't think we'll ever know - during the design stage we had paid for a report to be done to calculate the rain water run off and apparently this tank is necessary for the one in one hundred year storm so that our house doesn't cause excessive strain on the the sewers.<br />
The short of it is we now have to set a tank in the garden approx 4 metres long by 1metre deep. sounds simple but in fact it necessitates extra drains and quite serious digging, layers of various materials etc etc- yes I feel like going to sleep talking about it too!!!<br />
We've been quoted £11k for this very dull thing - money I would have much preferred to spend elsewhere on something I can actually see and enjoy - as if we haven't sunk enough money in the ground already.<br />
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Due to the mammoth cost our builders are now trying to get quotes from specialist drainage companies to see if they can do it any cheaper - watch this space!!!!!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129654251388807385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542262096072763773.post-62029787316724928832013-03-25T14:58:00.000-07:002013-03-25T15:00:23.873-07:00Catch UpLast time I posted I think that we were having problems with the ring beam due to the layer of cellcore being missed out and highlighted by the NHBC inspector. After a bit of argy bargy about who hadn't read the drawings correctly the ground works team were forced to re-do the beam which was completed just before the end of November. As you can see in the photo, the rest of the ground is just a mud bath - when we come off site we're a couple of inches taller with all the clay that clings to your wellies!<br />
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So on to site with the brick layers.... The picture below shows the beginnings of the walls as it was left just before Christmas and before the snows and bad weather came.</div>
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We did much mooching about on the site in that strange time between Christmas & New Year and came to the conclusion that the the work done by the brick layers was not of a very good standard - we're not builders but even a lay man can see when there's gaps and messy cement left all over the walls. We kept passing the site and nothing had moved on, We were patient as the weather was freezing but eventually called the builder to ask what's going on....... he'd sacked the brick layers as he wasn't happy with their work or attitude!!</div>
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We were okay with him getting rid of bad brickies but anxious to get things moving. By mid February a new lot were on site and woking well. The decision had been made to remove the original brick work and start anew and also to leave the garage to later as access will be tight to the back of the house once the garage is up.</div>
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Here are some photos of our lovely new walls going up to damp proof course level </div>
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