A Self builder in the Highlands

[ProDave]

My name is Dave and I live in the Highlands 20 miles from Inverness with my wife and daughter.

We are currently building our retirement house, a modest 3 bedroom detached house being built to a good standard of insulation and air tighness to be a low energy comfortable house with low running costs.

This is our second new build. We built the house that we presently live in starting in 2003 when we moved to the Highlands.  The new build is only 50 metres up the road from the old one.  As soon as we manage to sell the present house we will be moving onto the new site and living in a static caravan until the house is complete.

I have a blog about the new build here http://www.willowburn.net

My day job is a self employed electrician, which gives me the flexibility to split my time between work and building the new house, but I hope when it's all finished I will be able to retire, or at least scale back the amount of actual work that I do.