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Coping stones

November 17, 2020

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Seven steps

September 19, 2020

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Ready for the coping stones

August 28, 2020

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Bickfords come back

August 26, 2020

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Getting to see the curve

August 23, 2020

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Dry stone - weather permitting

August 18, 2020

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Tackling terracing

August 11, 2020

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Transports of delight

January 12, 2020

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Car port

January 01, 2020

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Porches

December 17, 2019

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Closing the shed

September 03, 2019

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The best built house 2019

August 15, 2019

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Glass at last

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The new house build blog

Today (14 January 2017) I decided to set up a blog, to report progress on our new house. This first post is a brief catch up covering the last 2 years. 1 October 2014 – This is the day I first contacted George Batterham of Batterham Matthews Design, who quickly became our chosen architect. I had found his company by tracking down the architects of this spectacular house – Cranham Lodge in the Cotswolds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6KpgRKDLE George soon came up with a set of sketches – some more whacky than others, but we rather liked the idea of curves. We quite quickly settled on the basic design – with a curved outline with about half of the footprint single storey half two-storey. Like the Cranham Lodge house the living area would be open-plan, with oak "trees". 24 February 2015 – George and I had our first meeting with one of the Bromsgrove planning officers, Helena Plant. It turns out to...

Foundation trenches

The weather improves, and trenches get dug.

Pouring concrete

The foundations are filled with concrete - several trucks arrive one by one and are quickly unloaded. They pump their load into another truck (on the left of the photo) that then pumps it through a long series of hose sections up through the trees, across the site and direct into the waiting trenches. and after about 2 hours the foundations were more or less done! If you wondered - as I did - how they clean the concrete out of the long hose, its easy. The chap in charge says you stick a foam ball in the hose, and the pump pushes it through with air pressure. By the time it pops out at the other end, the hose is clean!

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