Planning Regulations
Planning permission in the UK governs the relationship of a building to its surroundings, including its external appearance, position and size. There follows a brief …
Building with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)
what is a SIP? A SIP is a prefabricated panel consisting of two layers of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) sandwiching a layer of expanded polystyrene …
Constructing the floor
A surprisingly nice day today and I even saw the sun on a couple of occasions. I had a few more hours to finish the …
Speed Square
we continue to enjoy rain and wind of biblical proportions, but I managed to get an hour or two on Saturday to cut the remaining …
Erecting the Walls
There was a welcome break in the weather between Christmas and new year, and we ended up with a couple of sunny days in which …
Putting on the roof
Finished off the walls by fixing the structural posts and beams in the near corner (these will frame the window and door). A post is …
Windows and Doors
I have turned what should have been a simple job into a bit of a palaver. Things started off fairly comically when I did a …
The Weather. Again
a brief pause while I wait for Bob, of Bob Best’s Windows fame to deliver my new window unit (next week I hope). I explained …
Roughly Weatherproof
a minor milestone has been reached and the workshop is now more-or-less wind and rain proof. Bob arrived with the replacement window on Tuesday and …