CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


ARCHITECT Jane Burnside Architects Janeburnsidearchitects.co.uk


STEEL FRAME Smyth Steel Ltd smyth-steel.com


WINDOWS Bann Architectural Bannarchitectural.co.uk


SLATING CONTRACTOR McCallum Roofing Oban 07745 366064


BLOWN INSULATION Energy Store energystoreltd.com


HAULAGE


John MacDonald 07775 897622


ILLBRUCK TAPES Dortech Direct dortechdirect.co.uk


KITCHEN AND BATHROOMS Ballycastle Homecare ballycastlehomecare.co.uk


SLIDING DOORS Elite Doors


elite-doors.co.uk


she cooked dinner for them every night. “It was a small team, and we did the build in three, two-month blocks. The guys would work for two months, go off island for two months and then back for another two and so on.” In actual building time, the project took 6 months, but in real time it was 10 months. For Jane it was the ideal solution as it gave her time to plan, order materials and keep her business going. “It also worked with settling and drying out time. I’m an architect. I don’t usually worry about ordering materials or have to deal with shortages and delays, that’s usually someone else’s problem but in this instance, it was mine!”


CHALLENGES Fortunately, there was only one real hold up. e needed a specific weight o panish slate, and a particular setting out for the nail holes, as we’re in a high wind area. We had to special order them from Spain and they took forever to come.”


As well as the wind, the building needed to stand up to the rain. “You have to take account of the climate here – horizontal rain, 60 mph driving wind. I call them submarine days; it’s just like being underwater and you can’t stick your


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head out.” Fortunately, Jane found a product – Illbruck Tape – to keep her building watertight. “It’s like a strip of wetsuit material which you glue onto the window frame and then glues onto the masonry walls and plaster it in so you can’t actually see it. We’ve been here two years and not a leak.” Other problems that were posed by island building were things that Jane completely took for granted on the mainland. “Bringing a crane onto the island for a day would have been prohibitively expensive so instead of the big precast ooring unit  usually use, we had to use concrete T-beams and blocks that could be lifted and laid by hand – albeit many hands.” There was no concrete pump on the island either and the screeds were mixed onsite by hand, loaded into metal ucets and raised to the first oor using a pulley system. The screeds were then levelled by hand, the old fashioned way. “The heavyweight oors were an important part o the build not only for thermal mass and sound- proofing etween oors, ut their weight loaded onto the steel frame makes the whole structure stronger.” There was another challenge when it came to the blown-in insulation; the supplier went bust,


ELECTRICIAN Westech


westech-electrical.co.uk/Me- chanical


PLUMBER


Coast Plumbing 07771 651114


STAIR HANDRAIL Rope & Splice ropeandsplice.co.uk


FLOORING Havwoods UK Havwoods.com/uk


mar/apr 2022


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