Before I forgot when we made it and how we feel at the this moment in time I need to quickly get this down. I finally received the QS's report in a format that hasn't let me understand the detail i.e. the labour and materials are not spilt up into different sections which I thought was what we had asked for! Anyway it's all a learning curve and I can take lots of time trying to contact him again without any extra charge! whoope I can hardly wait.
The long and short of it was that if we wanted a house that was just to the building regs standard we could indeed manage to scrap the necessary money together just without important factors like having any type of surface on the yard or landscaping (ok that can certainly wait) or indeed anything to do with a sustainable house which completely missing the point of how we're trying to build this house. So I made a long list of all the additional items that needed to be included some where more Rolls Royce solution but at this point I don't feel like I want to compromise in for example putting up solar PV when the Feed In Tariff is actually a far better investment long term than any savings account and more importantly we could reduce our electricity consumption / independence on the grid.
So Harry is now working on a smaller design without a void which never really had us convinced. How can you really have a truly environmental house when all the heat is going upwards? I think we're have to take the original plans out of planning which will be ok as long as Harry takes them out apparently before four weeks into the planning process. I feel much happier knowing that we're still have a wonderful house with all the right materials and still being true to our beliefs.
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