Dreamers Corner

We're doing it !

Rita and Mark are building Dreamers Corner (with lots of help) and we’ll keep you updated here in our build blog…

Plantroom

This is mission control for the house and contains all of the life support systems. Post Views: 10

Wooden Cladding

Red Cedar cladding with 2 coats of Osmo. Cladding is on the rear and both sides. Post Views: 13

Insulation in the roof and walls

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Velux Windows arrive and added to the roof

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External Cladding – Building Paper and Batons

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Treating the External Wood Cladding – a job well done – exciting video to watch

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Craning in the Roof Steels – Videos

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See the Floor Joists in place and enjoy Mark’s guided walkthroughs – Videos

The floor joists are all now fitted. Here’s a couple of videos showing the joists in place and Mark talking through the room layouts for the two floors. 9 minutes and 45 seconds in total, so make a drink and open the biscuits… Post Views: 31

Floor Joists Have Arrived – Videos

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Pouring the Store Floor – in 45 seconds! – Video

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Pouring the Ground Floor Walls – Part 2 – Videos

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Pouring the Ground Floor Walls – Part 1

Friday 10th Feb 2023 – The big pour day… 4 loads later and all of the ground floor walls are now full of concrete. Here’s some photos from the day from the air and on the ground. Post Views: 20

Structural Steels Are going in

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The Garden Store has Roof timbers

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Another day of Bracing up the ground floor walls

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Bracing-up the Ground Floor ICF

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The Scaffolding is up

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The Static Caravan is onsite

The static caravan was sited and levelled. Unfortunately we still don’t have sewerage or an electricity meter, so we can’t move in yet! Post Views: 43

Ground floor walls nearly ready for bracing

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Rita’s Guided Walkthrough – Friday 9 December 2022 – Video

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Great Progress on the Walls

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The walls are going up

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Garden Store rubbed down and Primed

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Pouring the Walls for the Garden Store – Videos

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Pouring the Slab – Videos

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Slab Preparation

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Drainage and Rainwater Harvesting

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Oct 2022 – The ICF Blocks are going down

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Oct 2022 – The footings for the house are done !

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Oct 2022 – We Have Electricity

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Sep-Oct 2022 – The Retaining Wall

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Sep 2022 – Retaining Wall Footings

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31 Aug 2022 – Retaining Wall – The blocks have arrived

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June and July – We built a Sleeper Wall

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Tuesday 14th June was spent mostly measuring heights and distances and stuff

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2nd tree being felled – Video

This tree was just too close to where the corner of the house will be and unfortunately it had to go. We’ll be planting new trees to replace the ones we had to take out. Post Views: 24

Tree Felling 1 – Video

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Rita and the Mower – Video

A quickie time-lapse of Rita and the Mower Post Views: 26

An aerial view – Video

This video was filmed by Mark’s drone back in March before the groundworks started. You can see Rita mowing the field and a pan-around view of the surrounding countryside. Post Views: 28

Monday 16 May 2022

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Additional update for Friday 13 May 2022

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What it’ll look like…

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Update for Friday 13 May 2022

The bank at the top of the field was dug back ready for the retaining wall and the corner next to the neighbour’s drive was tidied up. The tree trunk and some of the hedge at the top of the field were dug out in preparation for the electricity cable. The site was dug down […]