Well, it's been a few months since we last wrote anything.The plans were approved on 18th September (these are the plans published on the EBC website), we then went through the process of selecting a demolition contractor.
Demolition started just before Christmas and completed mid-January (see the photo of nothingness!), in parallel we also went out to tender for the main build. The tender went out to 7 builders, with 5 responding. The quotes have been interesting, varying by almost 80% between the lowest and highest!
January 30th will see the site meeting day, in which we'll be meeting the 4 shortlisted builders to discuss their proposals. We went through the process of taking the most comprehensive response and taking the content to produce a checklist (supplemented by items from the others too), which will allow us to do an "apples for apples" comparison. Hopefully it'll clearly show what each is providing us for the money it's going to cost.
We've also confirmed since our last blog that we will need piling, possibly all the way down to a whopping 10.5M! Talk about pouring money in to the ground :-(
Hopefully by the end of the first week in February we'll have selected both the piling contractor and main builder. Afterwhich it'll be all systems go, all seem to believe that it'll be an 8-month build meaning we should be in by next Christmas!
We'll be keeping a photo journal of the whole thing by cementing in an old camera tripod at the bottom of the garden and taking regular photos as the build progresses.
Watch this space!
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