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If you read only one book before designing your conversion or renovation, then I recommend that you make it this one. I love patterns!

Location, Location, Location! pah, that's old hat we all know that the new mantra of home-building is Insulation, Insulation, Insulation.

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Around an ongoing barn conversion project, this website draws together advice, information and references to aid all would-be and current barn and non-residential building converters and renovators.

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    Category: Barn Conversion Journal October 30th, 2009 by mbc

    Sorry, I’ve been very slack in updating the site over the last few weeks - very busy at work (my proper job) at the moment with a system implementation.

    Rest assured my usual slow and steady service will be resumed shortly…

    If you enjoyed that post, then read these...

    Attention to detail... April 2008 update on April 15th, 2008
    Being a fan of lists, we've been using one to keep track of those items that we need to specify and decisions we need to...

    tag: 'Progress' category: 'Barn Conversion Journal' (2)

    Building Progress ~ March 2008, week 3 & 4 on April 8th, 2008
    Progress has become a rather abstract term recently.

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    Building Progress ~ March 2008, week 1 & 2 on March 16th, 2008
    We've now arrived at the stage where I need to get start getting services installed into the fabric of the building - first fix electrics...

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    Building Progress ~ May 2008 on June 3rd, 2008
    May has been a month of windows.

    category: 'Barn Conversion Journal' tag: 'Progress' (2)

    Building Progress ~ June 2008 on July 9th, 2008
    Insulation. June has been a pretty slow month ... progress has been dominated by insulation and plasterboard. First fix electrics and plumbing are complete. The roof...

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