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We are going to break ground later this year and want to arrange for PV to be installed as well as battery storage that fill's up over-night from the grid when the PV doesn't do the job during the winter months. Who has done this already? There are so many companies out there but who are the good ones? We are based south warwickshire. Many Thanks Pete

thanks Kelvin, our plot is relatively flat.. will need a small bit of levelling, however it's certainly not a slope. Good to know it's not difficult once we know the dimensions. Did you have any problems when doing yours? Just out of interest, what did you do with all the soil, stone, rocks you dug up... did you manage to repurpose any of it? or simply just had to pay to get to rid of it?

So house layout is designed, has anybody used a landscape designer that they can recommend to enhance the garden around the new house... I lack the vision. Happy to do the work to create it, just not to sure where to start on the design. Doing the landscaping is surely better when i have a digger on site to do much of the heavy work? we are building on 1/3 arce orchard so would like to keep the orchard theme but have it more of a space with different areas to discover! Any advise?

So, as our build comes closer, who has done there own groundwork? pre foundation work including trenches to receive services from the road. Our ground floor is 140m2. We are building on an old orchard so I need to fell a few apple trees and possibly a walnut. Because we have trees we have yet to find out if we need to big down to 2m instead of the 1.2m standard. Soil survey will tell us this, so is getting a digger myself before to do this? Should I buy one or hire one? As you may tell by the question, I want to do what I can myself, 1. for the experience 2. to save money. Any advise?