was really straightforward, although it did take 16 weeks instead of the usual eight to receive the decision,” says David.
“We liaised very early on with tree and ecology officers at the council, to assure them we valued and wanted to enhance the setting, so we had no real issues despite living in the greenbelt. The only change they requested was to reduce the height of the garage roof by a metre, which was an improvement anyway.” The house and basement were designed together, but when it came to the construction the Jones needed to organise their groundworks separately, using a company recommended by Baufritz. They employed a project manager to oversee the groundworks, concrete basement and slab, before the Baufritz project manager took over for the remainder of the build. “I was no longer working full-time, so probably got more involved than I strictly needed to, as we were only living 10 minutes away,” says David. “We were very fortunate not to need to live in a caravan and were able to stay in our home during the build.”
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The existing house was demolished, and the site cleared before the new basement could be excavated and prefabricated concrete walls installed. “One corner of the basement needed to be dug a metre deeper than planned, until they hit a firm base, before being built back up again with concrete,” says David. “Inevitably, when they then tried to install a drain, they immediately hit solid rock.”
The upper two levels of the building were constructed using offsite prefabricated closed wall and roof panels, built in a factory in Germany using low-carbon construction processes, sustainable timber and other biodegradable building materials. Timber windows and doors are pre-finished in a light grey paint, and the saddle roof has been clad with handsome interlocking grey clay roof tiles. Each section of the house was made with the insulation, cladding, external doors and triple- glazed windows already in place, to ensure excellent airtightness, so that when they arrived onsite the panels could be constructed extremely quickly.
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VIEWS
Sliding glass doors in the sitting room open onto a balcony and give views across the steep, secluded valley to the sea
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