Builders and comments

Just a quick one today as I've got to go to work to show two potential wedding couples around and then dash into the car to drive up to Oxfordshire for a wedding we're it will be great to be a guest.

Had a good meeting with Garry and Dave who are currently working very hard at the Chapel in Bruton high street. They come recommended by lots of people which is reassuring. I need to come up with more specific questions to ask them next time.

Harry had a chat with Flora as we're just want to know if there are decisions we need to make like saying we're happy with the changes Harry has made to the upstairs layout taking away the void thus hopefully leaving around £30k. I'm not wanting to obtain a decent quote from Porotherm for blocks so in other words of we can afford thicker better insulating ones then lets go for it. The same applies to the windows needing to get the dimensions and amounts from Harry will then give us the information to start getting quotes. It maybe off the peg are more expensive but I'm sure there is a reason why!

Lastly I didn't report that last Saturday we had a great bonfire at The Ropewalk with sausages and sparklers. We burnt a fair bit of brash eventually and enjoyed the space. It was slightly disconcerting to have a fire at the excate spot we planning on having the dining room.

The delights of having a blog

Well how to get on with your future neighbours! What should I say without deepening further comments? Well we don't live in London or even Paris but a small country town so you think that if someone had issues with the planning they would actually contact us for a chat rather than just send their comments online but unfortunately not! At least it seems that the vast majority of the local residents have offered positive support. It's a tense time for us as we don't want to hurt people's feelings but at the same time we would like to start building our house. I attended a Bruton Trust meeting this evening and had the chance to show drawings of the Ropewalk House and thankfully met a chorus of approval. We will apparently find out towards the end of the month so until then I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

Tomorrow I'm hopefully going to be meeting up with Garry and Dave from G.W buildings? We're have a coffee and talk about how it could happen. My big concern is whether they are able to build such a high standard of green building. Which frankly would be the same concern about any building company! But they come with exceptional references which is a great start!