BRANZ & Building Beyond Code Minimums … ‘these ‘bare minimum’ houses are the poorest performing homes that can legally be built’ – BRANZ referring to Minimum Code Build Homes. …
Claire ChattertonJune 12, 2020
How do we make stainless steel, and brushed nickel knobs and dials an interesting read!? Well, I have a little story to tell…… …………………. Background to Blog: It’s not every…
Claire ChattertonOctober 20, 2019
Now materials and colour choices are things that many people struggle with, myself included. Afraid of making the wrong choices and spending all that money on something you ultimately don’t…
Claire ChattertonJuly 4, 2019
Benziger (1979) defined thermal comfort as ‘a state in which there are no driving impulses to correct the environment by behaviour’. In the absence of thermal comfort, stress symptoms surface,…
Claire ChattertonJune 10, 2019
In terms of joinery I already had a kitchen layout so we knew where the plumbing and drainage would be when laying the foundations. Now it was time to finalise…
Claire ChattertonMay 10, 2019
Using SIPs has been a great help for someone like me who finds things hard to visualise! It has been really valuable being able to walk around the shell of…
Claire ChattertonMarch 25, 2019
…………………. Background to Blog: It’s not every day you get to design and build your own home!Even as building company owners we go through the same thought processes and have…
Claire ChattertonFebruary 26, 2019
Now the actual build is underway this sixth blog is a bit of an update on the work completed so far. The ‘Thermally Broken Slab’ of our high performing…
Claire ChattertonDecember 4, 2018
This fifth blog covers more about the somewhat daunting task of making our selections and the thought processes on some of the key selections!……..actually scrap that, this particular blog became…
Claire ChattertonNovember 20, 2018
