Damn the architect
Having weighed up the pros and cons over the past few months of employing an architect in a ‘full service’ capacity we’ve decided to go it alone.
It’s not been an easy decision and is at least in part driven by the fact that I’ve not managed to find anyone who is able to offer this type of service in the locality of the barn. That meant that travel expenses were likely to be a sizeable cost and time-on-site would be minimal.
These may well be famous last words, but I resent the potential cost and loss of control that a third party managing the project may mean.
So we’ve done away with the architect and gone green….
If you enjoyed that post, then read these...
Copper Nails! on August 11th, 2006
There are all sorts in interesting(?) facts that you learn when you begin to dabble in an area with which you've had little previous experience (such as converting a shed to a house is to me).
One small step.... on August 13th, 2007
Despite the various pieces of tinkering and potching that I've committed over the past months, I never really felt that we'd made a real start on conversion of the barn.
Heating & Hot Water - a solution? on March 28th, 2008
From the start of this project, I've been through numerous options regarding the method by which we'll heat the barn and generate hot water for domestic purposes.
Building Progress ~ February 2008, week 3 on February 28th, 2008
Things are moving along at a pace now as the first floor is in and the upstairs partitions are about to go in.
Radon Report on May 23rd, 2007
Until I started researching the Healthy House concept, I’d always taken such things as the need for a radon survey with a pinch of salt; as a necessary evil, a piece of unavoidable paid-for bureaucracy.
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