Last week we went around the neighbouring houses (including all of Toby Mill estate) and dropped off invitations to come and look at the plans, have a glass of elderflower cordial and a slice of cake. We had some people which was nice probably not as many as we would have liked but they've now had their chance!
Building projects just seem to swallow up time! Before you've contacted someone and then got a response it's been at least one week. I've managed to have a good chat to Keith the QS about getting surface areas of the house plan. This is then hopefully going to enable me to at some point in the near future to ring up some manufactures i.e. porotherm and have some comparable costing for our next meeting with Harry. In short the QS price is within budget if we don't want to have an environmentally designed house! So we've got to have an uncomfortable conversation about ways to reduce the total cost of the build which in my view just needs have the whole footprint reduced in size. This is slightly irritating as Tom always said we needed a 200 m2 build which we did convey this to Harry who hasn't taken it too seriously so now the build which has been submitted for planning (there's another story) is about 30 m2 too big. Surely it's better to resubmit with an amendment of size reduction?
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