Building your own home - anyone done it/got any tips

[Moggy]

It's one of the few things i aspire to do when i'm older

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Oh good grief yes Seconded (read timeless way first)

Unfortunately, there are incompatibilities between this approach to design and the way that councils & builders normally do things.

Presumably that's where an architect comes in? Assuming you can find one who buys in to that way of thinking.

 

[likesfish]

walter segal style wooden framed housing is cheaper and funkyer than conventional style
hosing thers two self build communitys in brighton helped build hedgehog my community self build died a death.
not sure if I've still got the selfbuild book about be a shame to settle for something like everything else for the same cost you could have something individual

 

[snadge]

These are they:

http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1130478

Ones you really want to pay attention to are B (fire safety) K (Protection from falling. Stairs) and L (energy conservation).

thanks very much ;-).

time to fire up autocad, I found out off the planning officer that I need PP for the front of the house ( overlooking fields) but don't for the rear ( overlooks loads of people

fucking idjeets.