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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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Our “Crapper!”
Grand Designs can’t include everything, and although we filmed at Hatfield Church and talked a lot about Thomas Crapper, the famous toilet man from Thorne (You did know he was from Thorne, right?), and filmed Kevin flushing it about 5 … Continue reading
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Announcing the launch of the “Gwindow”
We absolutely love our window / wall / door / canopy that Kevin McCloud christened the “Gwindow“. We constructed ours from a steel hydraulic frame and then clad it with a beautifully constructed window by Graham Ball Joiners. We then had … Continue reading
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Grand Designs
Apparently, unless something goes wrong, we’re the first programme on the new Series of Grand Designs Wednesday September 4th at 9pm! We’ll be watching it in our new home. In the projector room. Behind the sofa… Aaaargh!
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Our Projector Room
It was always our plan to turn the old projector room (the one room at the top of our building) into a home cinema, but as you can imagine with a project like this, cash flow gets tight, and we … Continue reading
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Heroes of the month!
Rich, Paul and Gary worked fastidiously to get our decking round our pool ready for the shoot the next day. Beyond the call of duty, they worked until the job was done. No excuses! Guys! We salute you! Your golden … Continue reading
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A few more glimpses…
We’ve now moved in, and gradually finishing off the details. It was a bit like camping for the first few days, and then stressful when you’re trying to live normally while the builders are still in your house! Anyway, it’s … Continue reading
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A few glimpses…
We’ve got a week to our moving in date. My birthday, 27th July! Here are a few glimpses of what our new home looks like….
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Formwork
We finally sorted the details for pouring our board marked concrete wall, and ordered the formwork from RMD Kwikform. This is big stuff, and will allow us to build the structure of our house in a few weeks. The thing with … Continue reading
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