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Another question re knocking a house down to rebuild- If you knock a house down, does the council tax stop and at what point does it apply again?

@CJO Thank you for your reply. I'm actually following your journey on Youtube, after the recommendation on here. I can't believe how small it looks, at the moment, compared to how much work you did when digging out the foundations. What would be great and I think you have mentioned it on your channel, would be a full costing of materials etc.

Could I ask why not a fan of the woodcrete ICF system? That was the one I would probably lean towards but have no experience in any

Thanks for all your replies so far. You've surprised me about sips but interesting that icf seems a popular choice as that has been recommended from elsewhere. Nestor, that is one beautiful home, you must be really proud. Nickfromwales- I guess we are all getting older so there will always be a market for a bungalow, in my opinion, but understand your reasoning G&J- will have a read of your blog Roger440- I'm sure there are better people to answer the knocking down and starting again reason on here, which is why I've joined this forum

Thank you for your reply. Skill level- jack of all trades, master of none. I don't mean that to sound flippant but have done a few small renovations in the past. Not scared to have a go, have always had a problem letting someone else do a job for me, cause I can't justify the cost. Will probably want to replace the house (bungalow) with another bungalow or maybe chalet bungalow due to height of neighbouring properties. Will probably be the start of a long journey but at the moment I'm wanting to do some research on construction methods used by self builders who actually did build it themselves

We've just had a look at a house which needs a full renovation but was thinking, maybe, it might be better to demolish it and start again. This will be my first question on the forum so be gentle🙂. If you wanted to actually build the property yourself and time wasn't a problem but price would be, which method would you look at. There seems to be 6 different ways on this forum (sips,blockwork,timberframe,steelframe etc) so any advice from anyone who has built one way but regretted it would be interested.