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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 05 2:32 pm Post subject: Kit houses
Are there any UK alternatives to Huf Haus? https://www.huf-haus.de/en/

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 05 11:01 pm Post subject:
Try looking at Walter Segal's work. The concrete post system he used inspired me to build a wooden cabin which took just two months to complete. https://www.segalselfbuild.co.uk/c HWH

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 12:20 pm Post subject:
Ta HWH

tahir

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:45 pm Post subject:
Just found this lot, apparently an Austrian company taken over by the Irish Forestry Commission, look very nice indeed: https://www.griffnercoillte.ie/main.htm

Bec

Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 71
Location: Newquay, Cornwall

Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:49 pm Post subject:
When I first looked into self build I looked at kit houses. Then I discovered straw bale building and hope, one day, to have a straw bale house. I just love the fact that you get thick walls making it look far older and more rustic in my view!! Bec

tahir

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:51 pm Post subject:
Yup, straw bale looks great.

tahir

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:53 pm Post subject:
BTW if anybody saw the Finnish kit house on Grand Designs last week that was the missus' cousin Stuart that works for them and helped build it.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:54 pm Post subject:
Did anyone see Grand Designs last week with the Finnish kit house? Now that did look good.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:55 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Did anyone see Grand Designs last week with the Finnish kit house? Now that did look good.

See above

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 1:59 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Did anyone see Grand Designs last week with the Finnish kit house? Now that did look good.

See above

Cross-posting going on there.

Does that mean you can get discounts...?

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 2:01 pm Post subject:
...and a web-site... https://www.erlund-house.com/

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 2:04 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Does that mean you can get discounts...?

Probably, interested? He's a nice fella and his dad's a Morris dancer, I'm sure he wouldn't mind throwing a few lessons in for free.

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Wed May 04, 05 2:09 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Does that mean you can get discounts...?

Probably, interested? He's a nice fella and his dad's a Morris dancer, I'm sure he wouldn't mind throwing a few lessons in for free.

Oh, now you shouldn't tempt people that way.

Very interested in this kind of house - very much a zero overall impact product, that functions well, designed to suit and looks good.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed May 04, 05 2:12 pm Post subject:
I thought it was amazing, especially on the budget, £53k I think excluding the groundworks. It doesn't look like we'll be doing a new build otherwise I'd have been on a plane to Helsinki very soon to see cousin Stu.

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Thu May 05, 05 10:29 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I thought it was amazing, especially on the budget, £53k I think excluding the groundworks. It doesn't look like we'll be doing a new build otherwise I'd have been on a plane to Helsinki very soon to see cousin Stu.

Wasn't the final budget about 120+K? and I'm assuming that that didn't include quite a lot of labour (mainly because the bloke was working about 100 hour weeks doing it himself)? I'm also assuming that coz and Finnish MD chap don't normally work on their builds.

Perhaps if you do have a chat to Stuart, it would be interesting to know what a realistic price for such a house would be, because it certainly does seem like a good system,

Peter.

P.S. Despite the very nice house system, the most gob-smacking thing on that programme was the Finnish machine for felling the trees. [put your preferred expletive here] me! it was just like War of the Worlds. Absolutely phenomenal.

Last edited by Blue Peter on Thu May 05, 05 10:53 am; edited 1 time in total

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