to have some time to relax. We are trying to do as much as we can ourselves not only to save money to spend on other areas as we have a very tight budget but also as we really enjoy the project and the rewards it brings. We are building our house as a ‘team’ and investing our time in our forever home – these will be things we look back on in years to come. We chose to have a scaffold wrap on the bungalow to keep it watertight and weatherproof as we don’t want the weather to affect our schedule, as we need to be able to move back in early in the new year. It won’t be a fully com- pleted house, but nearly – that’s part of the adventure though. Mother nature showed us very quickly that the tin hat was worth it, from the day we took the roof off it rained non-stop for the best part of two weeks!
The demolition has happened so
bonus. We moved out just as our ‘tin hat’ scaffold wrap started to be erected. Being so close to the site means that we can put a few hours work in after we both finish our day obs, but still be able
quickly, we can’t believe how much the bungalow changed in such a short space of time, work is slower now as we are at the painstaking stage of cutting in each window and door, so the changes aren’t as dramatic as they were recently. The steels have been ordered, and once they arrive onsite we hope to start seeing the rebuild take shape. In terms of next stages, we are very
The rest of the decisions were finalised on Zoom; it was actually a great way to discuss the finer detail
much looking forward to seeing the black zinc roof go on, it’s so striking and will be a huge landmark point in the build. Then later on, when we are at fit out stage, we are both really looking forward to seeing the kitchen and bathrooms come together, and obviously getting to move back in to our dream home! We have been documenting our build on Instagram (@little_gurnard_padso). We created an account that we can look back on and see how far we have come, but if you are interested, you can follow our progress there.
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