A New Home for Witchy Wood
We have planning permission for our new workshop and house.
Construction has started, but will be a long process.
As much as possible we are using locally sourced materials and labour for the project. Most of the timber for the building will come from our own woodlands.
Here are some photos of the construction.
Before the land was cleared.
Spruce monoculture, poor wildlife habitat compared to the mixed broadleaves we are planting in the rest of the woodland.
Cleared land.
Ready for excavation to start.
Trees cleared back to at least 25 metres from the house site since they are over 25 metres tall.
Fruit trees and bushes will go in at the end of the build.
A very large hole...
The house and workshop will mainly be below ground level with a green roof.
Concrete slab completed.
Lower level at the rear of the building will be the wokshop.
The upper level will be living accomodation.
Concrete Walls finished.
The top of these walls will be the outside ground level.
Internal walls next, then we can start on the roof and begin back filling around the building.
Not the most glamorous image, but everyone needs the loo sometime...
Hope to make some more progress soon, just waiting for the bricklayers to be available.
Brickies have been, and framework for the upstairs walls built.
Roof over the bunkrooms and workshop done and waterproofed.
Backfilled the trench around the walls.
Still a long way to go, but getting there...
Most of the framework for the building is now finished.
Roofing, window and doors next.
Hope to be weathertight soon...
Roof on. Doors and Windows in.
Pretty much weathertight.
Even some planting in the garden done.
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