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About this blog

After many decades of dreaming about building a contemporary house, we finally found a small plot in a no-through road in the middle of Hampshire.  This blog hopes to capture our self build journey.

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Static caravan arrival

Static caravan on site!

This day has been on my mind for months.  We really struggled to find a company that would visit the site and confirm whether we could get a static down the lane.  In the end we took an educated guess and purchased a 2023 37x13 unit from a private seller.   So at 1100hrs today, the wife of the driver (Greg Caravan Haulage) appeared in the driveway telling me I needed to go and cut some low hanging branches.   We got the static on site relatively easy, but then it got bogged d
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Static caravan site preparation

And so it begins

I have taken two weeks off work to prepare our site for our static caravan / shipping containers and also installation of the drainage field and Graf treatment plant.   The digger and dumper arrived on Monday and the Kubota was brand spanking new with < 1hr on the clock.   I wanted to tackle this all by myself, but I cannot grade to save my life, so I have enlisted the help of a local ground worker on an hourly rate.  He’s been a god send and made easy work of the required
Demolition

More site clearance

So I spent 3 days with a 1.5 tonne excavator and a pecker breaking up the huge amount of concrete slab.  Thankfully, it wasn't reinforced and all I can say is that I didn't envy the neighbours.   I am just finishing off pulling up the broken slab with a 3 tonne machine and getting the concrete collected with a grab lorry.   There is about 5-6 loads to collect and that is going to cost me about £700.  I could have hired a concrete crusher, but I calculated that to hire a crusher, 5 tonne excavato
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Demolition

Clearing the cattery buildings

There were 28 cattery pens and an office building to get rid of.   We really didn't want to have to pay to have this removed, so we put an advert on Facebook, and were inundated with calls.  We sold the lot for 2.5k and after 3 days of removing the roof structure (didn't want to risk people falling through it), the buyers came and removed it.  They left a complete mess, but I spent a further three days putting the remnants in one 4 yard plasterboard skip and 2 * 10 yard skips.  This meant we wer
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