Self Build New Homes

 

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 View from Lane End

 

 

 Internal shot from kitchen to living room

 

 

 

 Shot of stairs from kitchen

 

 

 

Ceilings insulated

 

 

 

 Stud wall at top of stairs with Velux window showing

 

 

 bedroom look at Dormer windows

 

 

 Rear look from outside at Dormer windows

 

 

 External cladding completed

 

 

 Front Elevation look

 

 

 

Rear View

 

 

 

Digging out for Drainage (Note Banksman watches for hidden dangers)

 

 

 Living room Insulation in ceilings between Wooden I-Beams and acoustic Insulation around waste pipes

 

 

 Boarding out! ready to Skim

 

 

 Plaster Boarding around internal doors, showing Electrical first fix

 

 

  

 

Outside, Drainage work- Storm and Foul and Inspection Chamber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More views of foul Drainage and Storm Drains 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspection Chamber for Foul Drains

 

Initial Storm run in lower trench

Note the Rodding Eye for storm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Storm run in lower trench

Initial Storm and Foul Drain Runs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whacker plate ensures pea gravel cover over drains is well compacted

 

 

 

"Type 1" Crushed Stone goes down next and is also compacted, note Aco Drain gulley with Silt Trap at end of run

 

 

 

Inside Doors fitted (Living room to hall door and French doors to Kitchen)

 

 

Kitchen units started to be fitted

 

 

Glazed Wall units fitted

 

 

 

Bathroom furiture arrives!

 

 

 

Master Bedroom Arched window view from doorway

 

 

 

Front of house with first coat of paint on Door

 

 

 

Formation of Driveway in front of garages (not built yet), also main drainage run at the side from front to back of house

 

 

 

Short Video of Vibrating Whacker Plate compacting the pea gravel covering above drainage run 

 

 

 

Underground Elecric Duct covered by Sand with Hazard tape on a Sand bed,

Any future digs will hit tape and sand before Duct and Electric Cable (Hopefully!)

 

 

Future drive has Perforated Land Drain laid at depth then covered in pea gravel before service ducts are laid on top

 

 

 

Laying Service Ducts above land drain on pea gravel then a light sand bed

 

 

 

Service Ducts with draw strings in place over land drain ready to be covered with pea gravel then Type 1

 

 

 

Both front doors fitted

 

 

 

Driveway reduced ready for Type 1 crushed stone