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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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Slab preparation

Hard graft, but can see the finish

Block and beam?  No!  Ground bearing slabs.  A decision that has given me sleepless nights and resulted in some serious hard graft.  We had 60 ton (that’s what we were told 🤔) of Type 1 MOT delivered and had to then proceed to get into the bays and levelled up, before compacting it.  The brickie was an arse as he should have stopped building and said “get your hardcore in and laid”.  His work was rather shit, so I knocked some of it down to enable me to get a dumper in distribute the piles to ma
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