Project 7

Our client has meticulously planned for her retirement and it’s anticipated needs.

Loving the area she is in at present and reluctant to move she has decided to build a 3 bedroomed cottage in her front garden and sell off her existing house. She has taken into consideration existing trees, shrubs and the sun’s path during the day and her needs internally for simple yet elegant living with her Edwardian furniture.

By adding coving to the ground floor it gives a more Edwardian quality finish.
Further render details to a dormer, note the lead flushing, brick sill and the cleanliness of the render.
Mark and Pete are fitting the kitchen into the parlour and are designing and constructing a ‘vanity board’ detail that will be topped in granite.
This picture shows the controls for the rain water harvester that will ensure the large new garden is never without the correct amount of water.
Becky, our very neat tiler starts work on the family bathroom, note the modern vertical aluminium tiles.
The Villovent air management system with all the ventilating pipes from around the house attached and neatly stowed in the corner of a future cupboard.
This picture shows the upstairs manifold for the under floor heating before being wired to the individual room sensors and the hot water neatly plumbed into the corner.
The Swedish stairs come factory finished in a ‘flat pack format and are built and fitted on site.
The front entrance to the cottage with bedroom dormers, round feature window and skylight over the gallery entrance hall.
The south facing aspect of the cottage showing the precoloured render and folding patio doors.
It is essential to carefully prepare all the surfaces and mask up before spraying.
This picture shows Gary spraying on the final coat in a ‘rough cast’ finish to give our customer the finish she wants.
Here we see Gary evenly applying the first coat.
We are applying pre coloured Weber render to the external blockwork and the render is mixed in this machine and then under pressure hosed onto the structure.
Once all the internal walls have been closed up, the joints of the plasterboard need to be sealed by applying tape impregnated with plaster seen here being fixed by Mark and his son Danny.
Once all the internal walls have been closed up, the joints of the plasterboard need to be sealed by applying tape impregnated with plaster seen here being fixed by Mark and his son Danny.
In this picture you can see the fixed insulation boards that are attached to the underside of the sarking roof boards. The flexible internal air flow ducting and how the stud walls have been constructed on the first floor.
On top of the block and Beam concrete floor is laid 65mm rigid insulation and then the u/f tracks and pipes are laid before a 75 mm liquid screed is pumped through the large black pipe throughout the ground floor resulting in the entire screed being laid in just 3 hours.
On top of the block and Beam concrete floor is laid 65mm rigid insulation and then the u/f tracks and pipes are laid before a 75 mm liquid screed is pumped through the large black pipe throughout the ground floor resulting in the entire screed being laid in just 3 hours.
This shows how the u/f heating pipes are fixed and laid on the first floor, note the flexible insulation and the fireproof boxes covering the groundfloor downlighters.
This picture shows how the timber frame walls are insulated with polythene before the 15mm plasterboard is screwed onto the frame.
This shows the battens in place for the small, machine made clay tiles to be fixed. The insetting of the velux window over the entrance hall and the additional boarding round the dormer window ready to receive the mesh and pre coloured render.
This shows the blockwork being laid until the snow called a halt. The whole house will be rendered when finished.
Down came the snow!! Resulting in all outside activities stopping.
This house is being fitted with the internal vacumm system shown here by the white pipes in the fore ground.
John and his father Peter are putting in the first fix of the electrics starting with the lighting.
Day 4 and the skilled shell erection team already have the new house to roof level.
This image shows the early formation of one of the dormer windows.
This image shows the DPC being laid before the sole plate is placed on top and then secured in position before individual wall sections are added.
Great excitement. It is 7 in the morning and the first of 3 lorries is on site ready to start unloading the kit from the factory.
Due to the planners request that the ridge height had to be lower we removed 2600 tons of top soil to reduce the level of the site, you can see the grass of the original garden in the background.
This picture shows the block and beam floor sitting on the foundations with the drain system being put in place.
Drainage, including a rain water harvester were added before the block and beam floor was completed.