Bespoke have yet to figure out why all their rendering cracked. it’s been over 5 weeks since we noticed the cracks. Nothing has been done about it and Bespoke have more-or-less ground to a halt on the rest of the…
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Accoya timber – sustainable softwood that lasts for 50+ years?
We wanted to use timber for the decorative roof-line trim on our gable-ends. A few other houses in the street have replaced their rotted timber with uPVC, which looks terrible and doesn’t score highly in sustainability terms. We wanted to…
Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MHVR)
We decided to install Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MHVR). This is a whole house ventilation system which will gently suck damp smelly air from the kitchen and bathrooms and push clean fresh air into the bedrooms and living room.…
External wall insulation
We’re now part-way through installing external wall insulation. This has been a learning process for myself and Bespoke Builders, neither of us had previous experience of this.
The first step is to fix the insulation baords…
February Update
Our builders started about a month ago. Everything is dust, wet and mess at the moment, with lots of old bits of the house going out and lots of new bits being built. This could be quite depressing to live…
January Update – work about to start
Builders are about to start, we’ve picked high-performance glazing and we’re very excited.
December – builder appointed
We’ve finally appointed a builder, to start work mid-January. Bespoke Building Contractors will do all the structural and external work, including block-work, roof, external cladding and drainage. They’ll do some internal work (new staircase, plastering in…
September Update
Unfortunately there’s not a lot more to say since June. We selected two builders to quote for the main construction phase of the house – one eventually decided not to quote and we’re trying to evaluate the other quote with…
Slow progress – Bishopston June 2010 Update
It’s now mid-June. We’ve identified the energy-saving components that we’d like to fit and we’re in the process of getting quotes from builders, specialist installers and suppliers.
As you can see from our energy performance certificate, things could be a lot worse but still we’ve got plenty of scope for improvement.
Not a scrap of the original house remains
In 2007 we bought our 3-bed semi in central Bristol. It’s a 1975 rebuild of a house which was originally built in around 1890. Not a scrap of the original house remains but the current layout is broadly the same…
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