1st time self builer and would like to thank you all who post on here , i have been following the site for the past year to get an understanding of what is involved in building your own home and dispite of everything i have read we still went ahead and purchased a plot . we are in the final stages of drawings with our achitect and will hopefully be submitting full planning in the next few weeks with a build start penciled in for March 21. thanks in advance for the advice and opinions that you all give so freely .