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Greetings, Just checking in with a bit of an update. Our four walls and a roof has moved on a bit. We are doing the work ourselves, used only one tradesman (to construct stone wall) and with small two kids to raise, as well as building and various 'interesting' events such as having to replace the roof on our temporary accommodation, I haven't been on here as often as I would have liked. We have: cleared the internal space of animal stalls, rooms and concrete render embedded our water and electricity supply pipes levelled the earth inside the building, put down Geocell foamed glass insulation enveloped in a terram, put in UFH system and lime screeded on top. Lime pointed our window reveals and installed wood framed windows raised the door lintel heights to allow for floor level coming up dug lots of trenches to put in land drain, civil drainage and oil feed pipe scrubbed the roof down ready to spray with woodworm treatment. millions of all the in-between stuff that uses so much time but doesn't make the headlines We did the lime screed ourselves and it has gone fine, it was a big job but we are pleased with the result as no problems with it despite finishing at half an hour to November and lime being temperature sensitive - we were running a risk with that - but the winter has been kind enough. So much has gone on there isn't any point going into technical detail on it all in this post, but I am happy to discuss any aspects anyone might find interesting/relevant to their own project