The week has ended well with us finally signing contracts for Johnathan. This represents a big step for us and is the result of a huge amount of hard work by Emma and Johnathon. We used the industry standard JCT (Joint Contracts Tribunal) Design and Build Contract which to the uninitiated is a fairly terrifying beast. The main contract runs to 113 pages and that does not include the details of the client or supplier's supporting documentation which probably weighs in at about the same again. Luckily Emma had experience with such monsters and we finally signed the thing today.
Below, Jonathon appearing to have second thoughts...but he came good and moments later we were all posing for a photo opertunity infront of Jonathon's van.
We have also finally completed the mortgage process this week. We are using Ecology Building Society's Self Build Mortgage to finance the project. Partly becuase of what they are trying to achive generally and partially becuase of how they are trying to do it, i.e. they incentivise, via discounts, high efficiency building, which means when we get certification we recieve a discount to their standard mortgage rate.
Demolition also hotted up this week. For me the presence of much cooler Tonka kit on site was up there with seeing the old house almost totally flattened.
Only the cronky old leanto style bedroom remains. As seen below Simon and his guys are doing a great job and keeping a very tidy site. Much less devastation than I had suspected at this stage. Mind you there is always tomorrow.
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