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January this year the missus turns around to me and tells me she is pregnant. There are a thousand and one pressing issues at this time, and one of them is "how the hell are we going to accommodate working from home and a child when we live in a tiny 2 bed". Luckily we have a large garden so we started looking into extensions. There was no way in the world we could afford it.
So we began to look for alternatives and we stumbled across the idea of a log cabin. Things went from there. Planning permission was first - usually you don't need it for cabins of less than a certain size, unless, as in our case, it would be within 2.5m of a boundary. We applied, drew drawings, bought maps of the Ordinance survey website (they wont accept googlemaps - bah) and waited.
In the mean time we speced the cabin. I sold my car and we used the funds to pay for it. We had it custom built from Keops Interlock to fit the space we had. 3m x 7m. 56mm logs and insulated floors and roof would keep it both cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The price was reasonable. Planning was approved and the build began...
First I had to sort the foundations. We are on sloping ground so that was easier said than done. I decided to do it myself - how hard can it be? I hired a mini digger and began. I used complex apparatus to set it out, 2 gaffa taped bits of 2"x2" and a 60 year old spirit level.
And after a weekend it was done. 160 quid for the digger for a weekend cant be bad, even if it was a bit banana shaped...
I decided that brickwork and copious concrete mixing was not my thing so hired in a local builder from Rated People dot com who slapped up the foundation surround...
Filled it in...
And concreted it - Bish...
Bash...
Bosh...
IMAGES FINALLY FIXED - 2014 - please can a mod move this to home and garden - TA.
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January this year the missus turns around to me and tells me she is pregnant. There are a thousand and one pressing issues at this time, and one of them is "how the hell are we going to accommodate working from home and a child when we live in a tiny 2 bed". Luckily we have a large garden so we started looking into extensions. There was no way in the world we could afford it.
So we began to look for alternatives and we stumbled across the idea of a log cabin. Things went from there. Planning permission was first - usually you don't need it for cabins of less than a certain size, unless, as in our case, it would be within 2.5m of a boundary. We applied, drew drawings, bought maps of the Ordinance survey website (they wont accept googlemaps - bah) and waited.
In the mean time we speced the cabin. I sold my car and we used the funds to pay for it. We had it custom built from Keops Interlock to fit the space we had. 3m x 7m. 56mm logs and insulated floors and roof would keep it both cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The price was reasonable. Planning was approved and the build began...
First I had to sort the foundations. We are on sloping ground so that was easier said than done. I decided to do it myself - how hard can it be? I hired a mini digger and began. I used complex apparatus to set it out, 2 gaffa taped bits of 2"x2" and a 60 year old spirit level.
And after a weekend it was done. 160 quid for the digger for a weekend cant be bad, even if it was a bit banana shaped...
I decided that brickwork and copious concrete mixing was not my thing so hired in a local builder from Rated People dot com who slapped up the foundation surround...
Filled it in...
And concreted it - Bish...
Bash...
Bosh...
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Its not over yet... I think its going to come in at about 10k, which is what I got for my car, but saying that I did not account for how much the damned paint costs etc etc.... Anyway its at most a 3rd of the price of a similar sized extension.
