Selfbuilder_and_Homemaker_-_September_-_October_2019

CONTENTS

SEP/OCT

2019

PRODUCTS

FINANCE & INSURANCE

Mortgage Advice 31

SITE PREPARATION

Building Products & Services 31

Plant Tools & Workwear 32

STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS 34

Floors 39

SIPs 34

Timber Frame 35

BUILDING ENVELOPE

Balconies 54

Doors & Windows 56

Glass & Glazing 57

Roofing & Cladding 55

Rooflights 58

HEATING, VENTILATION

& SERVICES 58

Fires, Fireplaces & Flues 66

Renewable Energy 76

Underfloor Heating 77

INSULATION 77

INTERIORS

Bathrooms & Kitchens 78

Flooring 78

Stairs, Balustrades & Lifts 80

SAFETY, SECURITY

& SMART HOMES

Smart Homes Systems 81

LANDSCAPING &

EXTERNAL SURFACES

Decking 80

Pools 80

CASE STUDIES

24

Building good health

Built on a wooded rural site on the coast, this stunning family home was

created on the coast near Bristol but prefabricated in Germany, and designed

with health and wellbeing in mind

40

A sustained effort

The end of Sarah and Andy Ball’s somewhat gruelling self-build saga is a

sleek, modern ‘forever’ home in Derby, with wide-open views of landscape

plus space, comfort and sustainability

48

Stepping into the light

Despite having an architecture degree, Tom Holliday and his wife Carly

turned to an architect friend to help them transform a dark, dated cottage

into a light and spacious family home near York

60

Good things come to those who wait

Finally moving in to their dream self-built home was a very long time coming

for David and Deanna Martin

70

Familial territory

While most people undertaking a project will buy an unfamiliar plot or

house, and possibly even in an unfamiliar area, a couple in Cheshire took the

opposite approach

60

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