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The Cal look is a style for vee dubs, it’s basically stock with the ‘fussy’ bits removed. So we have velfac windows with no visible hinges, the ball has no visible support, the internal pendants have the roses deleted and the stairs have no visible fixings. Its all about purity of lines and (apparent) simplicity.

It’s all reclaimed York stone off the site. Lovely stuff, weighs a tonne and a bit of a fiend to lay... if your local I have fair amount left in stock.... local places are selling it at £100 per square meter.

Yep. It’s indian sandstone we’ve moved house with it twice now ? PM me if you want one my landscaper has a supply. Not sure how much postage will be tho!

Tommorow we chip the drive and fill the moat ?

We’ve tried to keep some original ruined walls to tell a story and mix that with a industrial inspired look and the same ‘Cal’ look stripped down feel the house has. Hence the levelled thresholds, and no visible fixings wherever possible.

We are on with this at the moment, few images to whet the wheels of inspiration.

We’ve been happy with our velfac installation. If you go to the self build place at Swindon or the shows then you can sample them for yourself. That removed some from our list!

IMHO it’s a job where you have precision made parts built off site for fitting onsite. That always works well. Most other jobs are built up in situ.

We had a thread in this before? We’ve had a couple of people past our place

We had our team install the velfac windows. Speak to velfac arrange for a training day (circa 400 quid) then get you team to fit them. Good luck! If you are that close to delivery they’ve been made in the factory so I’m sure you’ll be able to work something out. They are no use to anyone apart from you ?

Wunda did ours and supplied parts. Happy customer no connection.

It’s a previously buried section of walk on glazing.

That should deal with it. Cleaned me up a treat...

Hi Ferdinand, plan to frame it using a secondhand steel mezzanine floor frame off eBay. Looks like a grand for a 7m * 3.5m deck. Roofed with boards it should take 750kg per square m. It’ll be a sedum roof using pond liner, gravel and carpet. Big Spud

We’ll need planning undoubtedly. But what about BR?

Ours was priced as follows, you pay for a stock size, then you pay for each cut. So an off the peg would be cheaper. From memory the door was maybe 1500/1800 quid then the cuts £120 or so. We only needed one. I’d make the hole the right size for the building then get a door to fit. Unless you are going so large you need to check you can get one ?

Does a carport need building regs? What about if I put a glamping pod on top? The pod shouldn’t need BR, neither should the car port. But if we put one on the other does that mean we will?

Hopefully catch up with the architect this week and we can start to make inroads into this...

I’ll have a sketch up this week and see how we progress !

I’d like a little more man cave space, and at the side of the house we have a kinda 8m*4m space. Bounding this on one side is a two story gable end and the other longside is a stream that’s about 4-5ft lower than ground level. What i’d Like to do is build a car port over this, using these https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F312501184196 this would then give us a potential for a balcony that is among the trees and with a view back to the waterfall. We then construct a light weight glazed structure at the rear as an office possible based on this https://www.cncdesign.co.uk/oval-glamping-pod-frame-kit-3000-4000.html so the question is. What sort of foundation does it need? Couple of pavers laid on sharp sand ?!?? ?

We’ve had this fella in a few times recently. Judging from the amount of wild garlic he’s eaten I suspect he’s rather well seasoned by now.

It’s still siliconed in.

Come and pick up the Esse in my garage if you are on oil.

I remember on my school work experience placement I had the job of finding these for a site and removing them. Perhaps a little underhand. But we also burnt down a refrigerator trailer to scrap it so I’m not sure legalities where high on the business priorities.

Looking good!