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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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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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