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- Wilsons Construction Richard Wilson is the amazing builder that constructed our house
Our architect
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
Home Cinema
- AVID4U Jim expertly installed our kit perfectly.
- Bowers & Wilkins The coolest speakers in the world, and British!
- Epson UK Our projector that looks like a spaceship…
- Sevenoaks Sound & Vision Richard Meadmore, you are our hero! The guy that made it happen…
- Yamaha UK Our Blu-ray and amazing amplifier…
We are using...
- AC Fabrications all our steelwork (balustrade, cap pings, fireplaces, lighting bases…)
- Aspire Interiors Shelly Horridge does all our curtains, blinds, upholstery etc – all the nice soft things…
- Bennetts Timber Our thermowood cladding came from Bennetts. Cheers!
- Bio Fires We got our bio gel fire trays from these guys!
- BuildStore Our mortgage agents
- Carl Lindley Decorator Carl decorated the whole of our house from top to bottom, inside and out!
- Carr Restoration Dave Carr ground and polished our beautiful concrete floor.
- CBS engineering Chris Brown has worked with Jem before and is doing all our structural design
- Chapel Joinery Ian Cappleman is doing our carpentry stuff, like windows and that.
- Crightons Hydropool are supplying us with our amazing Hydropool
- Dawson and Burgess Roger Williams is dealing with all our legal stuff. Thanks Roger!
- DSR Demolition DSR are helping us demolish the auditorium
- Earthworks Cheri LaMay designs beautiful gardens!
- Fiddler Construction Sean is doing all our concrete for us
- Graham Ball Joiners Graham and Shaun clad our hydraulic door with a high performing wood frame and glass
- Gwindow Our amazing “Gwindow!” – get one for yourself here
- HD Anywhere Our cool TV and internet distribution system
- Historic Lighting The bits we needed to put together our dangly lights
- Howarth Timber General stuff and branded hard hats…
- Humberside Glazing They are doing our glazing – believe it or not…
- Indigo Furniture for things of beauty, go here…
- Ipswich Building Society For our mortgage
- JMP Consultants These guys sorted our issues with highways planning and parking at the front. Brilliant!
- K. R. Reclamation These guys blast clean anything and everything.
- Kieran Taylor Rendering The lads did a brilliant job on our white rendering
- Luke Arnold is doing all our brick related jobs for us
- Magnet Ant from Magnet Kitchens was a star, helping us beyond the call of duty!
- Matt Brewster Matt’s beautiful artwork adorns our lounge wall
- Natasha Estrada She did our bat survey
- Richard Wilson Our builder and our friend!
- RMD Kwikform suppliers of our concrete formwork
- Spinks Suppliers of bricks and loads of other stuff
- Stainforth Carpets Our cinema room carpet came from our pals at Stainy Carpets
- Thomas Crapper Supplied us with the finest ‘bog’ in Thorne…
- Travis Perkins For big bags of sand left in strategic places…
- Virtue Electrical Engineering Ltd All electrical stuff and Audio Visual niceties
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
What a blast!
Wow! For me, this was the day that would reveal whether this was all a mad idea, or a brilliant risk. We’ve been looking into how best to remove the paint from the front of the building to knock it … Continue reading
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Stripped back
So, I did my first few honest days work on site over the last few weeks, which is why I’ve not posted anything up here! I took a couple of weeks off work to get stuck in. This was by … Continue reading
Views from the entrance hall
My sister, Bron came and took some photos of the house and Kate…
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Phase 1 – demolition – DONE!
So, DSR finished their demo work this week, knocking back the building ready for us to start building up and out. The last job they did was to remove the footings of the gallery seating. MY GOD! They knew how … Continue reading
Hydroswing
Today, I visited Hydroswing Ltd in Preston. I agreed with Dan and Marshal that we would work together to realise our hydraulic window / door / canopy that people are calling the ‘Gwyndow’ (not that I came up with it, … Continue reading
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Progress
Barry and his son Darren and the rest of the DSR guys have been working tirelessly on site to complete the demolition work, the first phase of our building plan. The stairs and internal walls have all come out, as … Continue reading