Normally for a well-insulated house you'd think putting in triple glazing would be a bit of a no-brainer as the price penalty for 3G is getting smaller, even in the UK. However, for the roof windows required for an A-frame-type house things are a bit more marginal and it seems worth doing the arithmetic.
More...As noted previously I've bought some Scotland. It's about time I showed it off a bit.
More...The last full week in September was quite a good one from the point of view of my house build project.
More...Over the last few months I've been having a little re-think on the structure of the roof - not a trivial aspect of an A-frame house.
More...Bleedin' 'el - it's been five months since I last posted about this here plot purchase.
More...I continue to exist while waiting for the crofting situation with the plot to be sorted out.
More...My previous Decrofting post summarises the situation with the purchase of the plot as it was at the beginning of November. Since then not a lot has happened but just about enough to be worth reporting.
More...For anybody who hasn't corresponded with me recently it must be a bit of a puzzle what's going on with my house build project. Or, to put it a bit more succinctly, WTF have I been up to? I'll start from the beginning...
More...The overview of my house plans (at House) are a bit out of date. The design has, as you might expect, evolved a bit (and is still evolving) and it never seems like quite the right moment to bring it up to date. That's one of the points of this blog: a blog post is only supposed to be right on the day it was posted; etiquette says it's “cheating” to later update an entry in more than the most trivial editorial ways without clearly marking what you've done.
Anyway, here's a quick sketch of more current thinking.
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