Lucy Murray

Thank you ?

All plastered on the inside. Let the painting commence.

Scaffolding coming down next week

Looks really lovely. Well done!

More progress! Can’t wait to see it with the larch & stone work. Will post another update soon.

Hi, Range cooker or a couple of fan ovens with sep hob?

Da Dahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

We are in the process of looking at windows and doors for our new build. Has anyone installed WarmCore? Any thoughts, positive and negative appreciated.

We have our structural engineers drawings and have taken them to our steel fabricator. Although the drawings specify the type of steels to use they haven't specified the lengths which our fabricator finds unusual. After a brief conversation with the engineer, he has passed the buck to the architect. I've yet to speak to the architect but he has specified in the spec all steelwork sizes etc is confirmed in the engineers drawings. However I find it baffling as to why the engineer as not given the lengths each individual steel needs to made to. Should my fabricator really be expected to try and guage measurements by flicking between architect and engineers drawings? I would have expected a spec sheet with details such as steel A needs to be this length? Am I wrong to assume this? I just find it hard to believe we've paid for drawings yet the fabricator has to take the risk of doing the measuring and obviously if any problems arise they then become his problem. Look forward to any feedback help on this one.

Last weekend we had the structural engineer out checking the ground. Having dug the pits the structural engineer has confirmed that the ground is suitable for building on

We now have planning permission - Scottish Borders Council Planning Reference Number 16/00648/PPP. Scottish Power wires still to move but we're hopeful that this will happen within the next few months... Shortlisting main contractors at the moment. Should have tender documents ready to send out by the end of April. Quietly hoping we'll be on our way with the build by October....................watch this space. Lucy

Planning permission GRANTED late FEB...

P.S - we live very near your plot and would love to come and see how you're getting on once you've started to build.

@Redoctober - which Builder are you using?

Thanks Russell. I shall let you know what happens...

We have just submitted our dream home to planning. All being well we should have a decision in February. Still haven't been given a date by Scottish Power...

£3299.20 - Low Voltage Underground Main Works £1500 - Substation Land & Fees +VAT Total - £5759.04 Doesn't include any of the site excavations.

Hello! I would really like to build our house with an Oak Frame as I love the look but our budget is unlikely to be able to stretch to this. Can any of you make any suggestions as to how we can achieve this look on a budget? Thanks

05.08.17 - we have FINALLY received our quote for the under-grounding of the electricity wires! 8 weeks and we'll have a date for when the work will commence! Horrah!!!!

@Redoctober - the weather was about 6 weeks ago. It's a beautiful view when the fog lifts. I expect what we'll end up doing is putting the wires that run across the plot underground. We'll dig the trenches. The wires will run down towards the silver car in the picture and then left along the boundary (which is where the crop starts) and we'll put a pole in at the other side of the plot where the wires will obviously go back up above ground. There's a woodpecker living in one of the H poles and so SP have agreed to replace the poles & move the H pole a couple of metres FOC. These couple of metres make quite a big difference and should mean that we wont see the H pole quite as much when we're in our garden. I'll let you know what we're quoted. Exciting times ahead!

22.06.17 - Scottish Power have come to look at putting power lines running across our plot underground and also at moving an H pole. 2 weeks and we should have a couple of drawings sent to us so we can make a decision as to how we'll proceed.

Morning all, Just thought i'd give you an update on this... We've had a powerline contractor come and look at the site and the H pole that we didn't think we'd be able to move due to cost has a woodpecker living in it and so will need to be replaced....we're hoping we'll now be able to get Scottish Power to help us fund what we need to do! I'll keep you posted!

Morning all, We're building a 1.75 storey, 236m2 & are looking at different heating systems... What would you recommend? Our U value will be 0.16 Thanks guys.

Morning all, Our Timber Frame company has asked us to choose our windows... The choices are: uPVC, Timber and Timber with Aluminium. Can anyone tell me a little about the pros and cons of each? Our budget is tight and so from a cost perspective uPVC would be the obvious choice. Thanks in advance, Lucy

@Redoctober - drove past your site today...