INTRODUCTION TO BUILD METHODS

One of the fundamental decisions you will make when it comes to a self-build is how the house will be built. Here we explain the most common options that are available…

There are many different options that you face when building a new house. If you aren’t terribly bothered about how your house looks ‘under the bonnet’, you can quite easily opt out of making a choice at all and go with your builder’s default settings or leave the decision to your architect and/or structural engineer. Let’s get one thing clear — in most cases, the material the superstructure of your home is built from will have little impact on how it looks. This is because your choice of construction method often doesn’t impact on the outside facing of the house — so a timber home or masonry home could be clad in stone, brick, timber cladding or render. In other words, you won’t be able to spot from the outside…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2018

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