January 11, 20188 yr Hi, building our dream home in Lancashire and it's a slog...to say the least. Found this forum and thought it might be a good source of gen and inspiration.....heres hoping.
January 11, 20188 yr Welcome I'm new here too and you've come to the right place for friendly, inspirational advice. This is one of the best forums I've ever joined!
January 11, 20188 yr Never ending story? For a minute there I thought someone had changed the title of my bathroom refurb! Welcome aboard. We like pictures btw!
January 11, 20188 yr Hi And welcome to THE forum - Especially, and perhaps curiously, as you spell your name as we named our son - very Scottish. Also Welcome to @Luckylad as I missed your arrival.
January 11, 20188 yr 2 hours ago, Alasdair said: Hi, building our dream home in Lancashire and it's a slog...to say the least. Found this forum and thought it might be a good source of gen and inspiration.....heres hoping. Hi I’m in Preston Welcome to the forum
January 11, 20188 yr Hi, I'm at Junction 33. Roughly where are you? If you're passing J33, drop in. We are two minutes away. (PM me) So, you've found the Slog-It Club. Most of us here are in the same boat..... Head down, tails up get on with it, no matter how we feel about it. For this build, today is one of the better days. Our Polish builder has arrived in site, and injected a healthy dose of energy for which I'm very grateful.
January 11, 20188 yr 4 hours ago, Luckylad said: Welcome I'm new here too and you've come to the right place for friendly, inspirational advice. This is one of the best forums I've ever joined! One of ?
January 11, 20188 yr Hi and welcome. Love this forum the guys on here are so knowlegeable and so good at sharing all that knowledge. You wont find a better place!
January 11, 20188 yr 7 hours ago, Alasdair said: Hi, building our dream home in Lancashire and it's a slog...to say the least. Hi Alasdair, welcome to the forum. You're right about it being a slog, but don't let it get you down. We're just finishing ours and it's taken nearly eight years, that's the result of doing most of it yourself.
January 11, 20188 yr Yep, warm welcome, your in good company. What stage are you at? Dream home sounds interesting...grand designs ???
February 7, 20188 yr Author Definitely not Grand Designs Tennets....it would just be one long bleep!! Stones it was originally a farm house refurbish and extension but the old house had been neglected for well over 50 years and ended up being demolished so a clean sheet of paper. Timber frame construction with glum as the main ingredient and then lots of glass. We got a builder in early days for the slab and foundations and they just made an absolute pigs ear of various aspects all of which we ended up putting right. Timber frame went up in less than two weeks and roof took another three from there. Glass has been an ongoing saga and still isn't right but we've got the manufacturers involcved now so hopefully there is some light at the end of that tunnel. We have done the M&E ourselves and are almost done on 1st fix electrics and plumbing. Trying to work out how to clad in our windoews when they are eventually finished and then we will move on from there! In the meantime we have built and finished a block of 9 stables, tack room and two barns plus a 40mtr 20mtr riding school...so we have had a few distractions!!
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