Our Home for over 30 years

Designed and built by the owners, Mel and Mary Owen

Tasks carried out by we ourselves on a DIY basis:

• Design of house and all services
• Production of all drawings
• Site surveying
• All quantity surveyng and the purchase of all materials
• Levelling of footings concrete
• Oversite filling and screeding
• First and second fix woodwork
• First and second fix plumbing and drainage
• First and second fix wiring
• Decorating

Tasks carried out by directly contracted labour:

• JCB excavations
• Brickwork
• Roofing
• Plastering
• Glazing
• Scaffolding services

Milestones

• Foundations excavated - Easter 1989
• Oversite completed -Spring Bank Holiday 1989
• Chimney topped out - end of July 1989
• Roofed - mid September 1989
• Plastering completed - March 1990
• Electricity connected - June 1990
• Central heating commissioned - November 1990
• Decorating completed - after we had moved in, at a more leasurely pace

Overview

• 3,600 square feet
• Ground floor area 9 metres by 18 metres
• Upper floor area 9 metres by 14 metres
• External woodwork fully-durable Brazilian Mahogany
• Internal woodwork Meranti and Luan
• Double glazed in Pilkington K
• 2 baths, 2 showers, 4 WCs, 4 washbasins
• Wall cavities intact, inner walls of thick thermal blocks, walls thermally insulated with U of 0.6
• Ground floor thermally insulated
• The 'Feed-In-Tarif' (FIT) from our solar panels each year exceeded our cost of purchased electricity, so our net annual electricity cost was negative, despite having to cook solely by electricity, since we were too far away from any gas mains

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