Greg-in-DD

I look forward to reading that and I am curious on what you are doing with heating / cooling and internal walls! Wishing you the best with your build!

Yes ProDave, one of many along the Welsh coast! You know the saying ‘buy cheap buy twice’ but i reckon i will be long dead before loosing it to the sea. In the meantime i am hoping to have many summers looking out to sunsets over the sea and mountains to the east!

Current building

Hello all and thank you in advance for your help with the thousands of questions I am sure i will be asking over the next year. We bought a bungalow and gift shop three years ago in Dinas Dinlle (roughly the west end of the Menai straight in North Wales) and have been granted permission for change of use from a shop to A3 restaurant and an additional floor on to the bungalow. we will be going for an upside down configuration to make the most of the sea views and utilise the outside space above the restaurant as the plot has a tiny garden. The bungalow hasn’t been lived in for thirty years and is a mish mash of floor levels ‘add ons’ and it is likely that the foundations aren’t up to the additional extension. The bungalow is in a costal erosion zone, in the next 30-50 years, may experience surge tide flooding so building in flood resilience is important. The current thinking is rebuilding in ICF for the ground floor with a steel frame for the second floor. My timeline is to spend the next five months in the design stage with the hope of starting work in Spring and will be wonderful if we can get in for Christmas 2025. I am looking to use contractors for all the major parts of the build and we will do finishing ourselves. In terms of experience, I would say I am a competent DIY’er having renovated a couple of houses but by no means a builder! Thanks, GregMIN Y MOR SUPERIMPOSED.pdf MIN Y MOR ARTIST IMPRESSIONS REVISED MARCH 24.pdf