How to Achieve Self-build Success

Self-building needs a mix of many qualities, but are you cut out for the challenge ahead?

Win an amplified indoor aerial from One For All

Estimating Service -NEW from Homebuilding & Renovating. Find out how much your self-build is going to cost!

 

My Building Project - Estimating Service

Design Ideas for Sloping Sites
A look at the design implications of building your own home on a sloping site

Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2011

Building Dreams

Part 2 of the build

Posted by Potton on 3rd November 2009

You can really see what the house will look like now. Last week we could see how big the rooms on the ground floor were, and now we can see the first floor as well.

View from the top

I have been popping down there sometimes in my lunch break to have a chat and bring a bag of donuts but Sharon and I like to go and have a look later on in the day.

You can really see how quickly it’s progressing and that’s one of the great things about building a timber frame home. Potton package homes can be watertight in less than ten days!
The upstairs takes shape

Another plus point about self-building a timber frame house is that they are extremely well insulated and very energy efficient.

We like the idea of building an energy efficient home and so are also looking at an airflow system for the house which works like a fridge in reverse. It will give us underfloor heating and radiators, and because it’s so energy efficient, we get a £1,000 refund from the government.

Next week, we’ll be carrying on with and hopefully finishing the external work.

Add Comment
Potton

Potton

Blog from Potton, one of the UK’s longest established timber frame manufacturers with over 40 years experience in quality timber engineering.

recent blog posts

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <br> <caption> <style> <cite> <code> <dd> <div> <dl> <dt> <em> <hr> <img> <li> <ol> <p> <strong> <table> <tbody> <td> <th> <thead> <tr> <ul> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <span>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • You may insert videos with [video:URL]

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is to prevent computer generated spam submissions. Please enter the code exactly as you see it, with no spaces between characters, and with upper and lower case letters as displayed
Image CAPTCHA
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.