32A YAXHAM ROAD

With an open-plan living / dining and cooking area, we wanted a kitchen that would be the focus of the house. Having previously installed...

LVT is Luxury Vinyl Tiles - a floor covering traditionally used in shops / the workplace for its durability but increasingly used in...

We built our own interior walls from timber studs and originally thought that we would line the walls with plywood - timber-frame house...

Our main motivation for building a passive house was a desire to live more sustainably. So we installed a rainwater harvester to reduce...

It's been a month since our last post. With the exception of Mal the roofer, we have been working on our own on site. So what have we...

The external surfaces of our Beattie Passive house were wrapped in (bright yellow) Wraptite membrane but needed to be clad to make them...

Since the roof went up, our house has been wrapped in unsightly polythene to prevent rain blowing in through the door and window...

The Beattie Passive thermal envelope is created by filling the walls, roof and floor with a continuous blanket of insulation. Polystyrene...

Our new passive house has a flat roof. How do you drain off the rainwater? You build a pitched deck and a parapet around the perimeter....

The second week in June was unseasonably wet and presented us with a few challenges. With no windows and no roof covering, we had little...

Our new house will have floor-to-ceiling glazed walls facing south and west, designed for solar gain and views of the garden. These walls...

Our timber frame is nearly complete. The next stage was to cover the frame with a modern, environmentally-friendly sheet material called...

The week started on a wet Tuesday morning with the delivery of the Easijoists that will form the roof. Our team of builders from Beattie...

Finally .. house construction began on Monday 29 April 2019. After an inconveniently wet weekend, we spent Sunday drying out the yellow...

After a week's lull, the groundworks team returned to build the next level of our foundations. The yellow plastic is a combined radon gas...

Groundworks Week 2 - mission - excavate trenches for the foundations and "pour" concrete. The site was levelled and marked out with pegs...

Monday 11th March 2019 was G-Day, the long-awaited start of our groundworks. Our groundworks team - James and Tim - delivered their...

We got the roof off and we took down the walls. That only left the concrete floor. Martin hired the Makita demolition hammer that we used...

The route for our new drive goes straight through the garage for our existing house - so the garage had to go. We've been itching to get...