A 290m² ground-up contemporary 5-bedroom timber-frame self-build for a returning client couple in their early fifties on a serviced plot in Harrogate, North Yorkshire — insulated timber-frame structure delivered and erected on prepared sole plates over 11 days, vaulted double-height living space with a 5m structural Schueco AWS aluminium-framed glass curtain wall opening to the rear garden, integrated double garage with connecting utility/boot room, MVHR throughout commissioned and balanced to a Part L air permeability test result of 4.1m³/h.m² at 50Pa, ASHP primary heating with wet underfloor heating to ground floor and rads to upper floor, large-format porcelain to ground floor and bathrooms, bespoke Tom Howley kitchen, render with timber cladding accents externally, Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork coordinated under HMRC Notice 719, and Building Regulations completion certificate via North Yorkshire Building Control. Thirteen-month programme delivered against fixed price; family in for Christmas Eve on the contracted handover date.
A returning client couple in their early fifties — the husband the founder of an engineering manufacturing business in Leeds, the wife running a small consultancy from home, two adult children visiting from London and Edinburgh on alternate weekends — commissioned the ground-up build of a 290m² contemporary 5-bedroom timber-frame family home on a serviced plot they had purchased in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Planning permission was secured by the homeowners and their architect before contract; we tendered against three other contractors invited to quote on a fully-detailed Stage 4 design package. Our appointment was on a fixed-price basis with practical completion contracted for the Christmas Eve of the following year.
This was the second project we have delivered for this couple. Four years previously, before they sold their previous family home in Ilkley, we delivered a substantial rear extension and full kitchen overhaul on that property: a 16-week, £140,000 build that was completed against fixed price with no variation orders and which the homeowners later told us had been the single biggest factor in achieving their asking price when they sold the Ilkley house. That sale partly funded the Harrogate plot purchase, and they came back to us for the self-build with a degree of trust that does not exist on a first appointment. Our quotation was second on price by approximately £14,000 against the leading offer from a Yorkshire-based developer-contractor; the homeowners chose us anyway because of the prior project, and because our quotation was the only one to (a) commission a structural engineer pre-bid for a ground survey on the plot's chalk subgrade with strip-footing depths costed inside the contract sum, (b) engage the timber-frame manufacturer at quotation stage with a fixed kit price rather than as a "subject to frame supplier" provisional, and (c) coordinate the full HMRC Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork (Notice 719) on their behalf as a contractually-defined deliverable rather than as a "homeowner to arrange" item.
Practical completion was certified at 11am on the contracted Christmas Eve. North Yorkshire Building Control completion certificate was issued the same morning following the final inspection. The MVHR was running, the ASHP was commissioning a hot-water cycle, the wet UFH ground floor was at 22°C, the Tom Howley kitchen was clean and stocked with a hamper from the homeowners' housewarming-eve delivery from Bettys, and the 5m Schueco AWS curtain wall was throwing winter afternoon sun across the new oak ground floor. The family carried their first Christmas tree across the threshold at 3pm. Their two children arrived for Christmas Eve dinner at 5.30pm.
The brief came from the homeowner couple and their architect across an extended pre-construction process running from initial design conversations through Stage 4 detailed design and on to contract sign-off. Priorities, in their stated order:
A 13-month £675k ground-up self-build is a different discipline from a fit-out, a renovation or a bathroom rebuild. The plot has to be surveyed before the foundations are designed; the timber-frame supplier has to be locked in before the foundations are even formed; the wind-and-watertight milestone is the gating event for every internal trade; the MVHR and ASHP have to be commissioned together against the air permeability test; the Self-Build VAT Scheme has to be coordinated from the first invoice rather than at the end; and a Christmas Eve handover is a non-negotiable family milestone, not a movable contract date. Every constraint had a workaround that had to be planned before contract signature.
This was the second project we have delivered for the homeowners. Four years previously, before they sold their family home in Ilkley, we delivered a 16-week, £140,000 rear extension and kitchen overhaul on that property — fixed price, no variation orders, sold a year later as the single biggest factor in achieving their asking price. They came back to us for the Harrogate self-build with a level of trust that no first appointment can replicate. The bid-winning conversation was less about price and more about specifically how we would manage the timber-frame supplier, the curtain-wall structural engineering, the MVHR/ASHP commissioning interface and the Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork.
The plot was on chalk subgrade with a 600mm topsoil overburden — standard for this part of North Yorkshire but with some variability across the plot. We commissioned a structural engineer at quotation stage for a ground investigation (4 trial holes plus a borehole to 4m) and got the foundation design back before our bid went in: 750mm-deep strip footings on the chalk with a 100mm sand blinding, oversite slab to ground-bearing slab specification with insulation, total foundation cost priced inside the contract sum. The competing quote that came in cheaper had the foundations as "subject to ground survey, additional cost may apply".
Timber-frame self-builds depend entirely on the frame-supplier chain: kit lead time, delivery date, erection crew, crane hire, weather window for the lift. We engaged Frame UK (a Yorkshire-based timber-frame manufacturer with a 6-year track record on the kind of contemporary 5-bedroom self-builds we were quoting on) at quotation stage with a fixed kit price and a confirmed 12-week lead time. The frame went into manufacture in week 8, was delivered to site over three flatbed loads in week 19, and was erected on the prepared sole plates over 11 working days using a hired 50-tonne crane. Wind-and-watertight milestone hit on the contracted day.
A 5m clear-span aluminium-framed glass curtain wall opening to the rear garden and rising to the vault of a double-height living space is a structural-engineer-led build. The supporting steel beam (203×102mm UB) was designed by structural engineer at Stage 4, fabricated and delivered to site for the frame-up week. Schueco AWS curtain-wall system specified for thermal performance and differential expansion compatibility with the steel; the curtain wall was installed in week 24 to a 1mm tolerance across the 5m span. Thermal modelling at Stage 4 confirmed the cold-bridge detailing at the junction with the timber-frame envelope; cold-bridge thermography test at completion confirmed zero anomalies.
Modern airtight homes need MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery) to maintain indoor air quality without losing heat. ASHP (Air Source Heat Pump) primary heating, wet UFH to ground floor, rads to upper floor, all commissioned together against the air permeability test in week 50. Part L 2021 air permeability target for new-build dwellings is 8m³/h.m² at 50Pa; we targeted 5 in the contract; we hit 4.1 on first measurement. MVHR balanced to manufacturer's design flow rates across all 14 ducted positions; ASHP commissioned with weather-compensation against the homeowners' existing Hive smart heating environment.
HMRC Notice 719 (the DIY Housebuilders' Scheme) lets self-builders reclaim VAT on materials for an eligible new-build dwelling. The two competing quotes treated this as "homeowner to arrange". We coordinated it from invoice one: VAT-appropriate invoicing on materials throughout, supplier VAT registration cross-checked, VAT-reclaim pack assembled across the 13 months and delivered to the homeowners at completion as a single bound document ready for their HMRC submission within the three-month post-completion window. The reclaim is expected to recover approximately £58,000 against eligible material spend.
Residential self-builds at this scale succeed or fail on five things: how the foundations are designed before bid, how the timber-frame supplier chain is managed, how the wind-and-watertight milestone is hit on the contracted day, how the MVHR and ASHP are commissioned together against the air-test, and how the Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork is coordinated from first invoice rather than at the end. Our approach was built around four governance disciplines and one client-trust discipline.
Returning-client continuity from day one. Four years on from the Ilkley extension, we sat in the homeowners' kitchen for the bid presentation rather than presenting in our office. The conversation moved past price to the specifics: how we would manage the timber-frame manufacturer, how the curtain wall would interface with the timber-frame envelope, how the MVHR ductwork would be planned against the ground-floor open-plan ceiling junctions, how the VAT Scheme paperwork would be assembled. The trust earned on the prior project bought us a seat at the kitchen table; the technical specificity in our methodology kept it.
Ground survey and foundation design pre-bid. The two competing quotes treated the foundations as "subject to ground survey, additional cost may apply". We commissioned the structural engineer at quotation stage with a 4-trial-hole and 1-borehole investigation, designed the strip footings against the chalk subgrade, costed the full foundation package inside the contract sum. The competing quote that came in £14,000 cheaper would have hit the homeowners with a foundation variation in week 2; ours did not. Foundation completion certificate issued by North Yorkshire Building Control week 5.
Timber-frame supplier engaged at quotation, frame-up date held to the day. Timber-frame manufacturers run lead times that don't compress and weather windows that move with the season. We engaged Frame UK at quotation stage with a fixed kit price and a confirmed 12-week lead time, placed the kit order in week 8, took delivery in week 19 over three flatbed loads, erected the frame on the prepared sole plates over 11 working days with a hired 50-tonne crane and a 4-person experienced erection crew. Wind-and-watertight milestone hit on the contracted Friday of week 22.
MVHR/ASHP commissioning as a paired discipline against the air-test. The MVHR and ASHP have to be commissioned together because they share the same airtight envelope. We sequenced the air permeability test for week 50 (after first-fix complete, second-fix services in, before final commissioning), hit 4.1m³/h.m² at 50Pa against the contractual 5 target, then commissioned the MVHR balance and the ASHP weather-compensation back-to-back over the same week. Part L compliance certificate issued by the air-test contractor; MVHR commissioning certificate issued by the manufacturer's engineer; ASHP commissioning certificate issued by the MCS-accredited installer.
Self-Build VAT Scheme coordinated from invoice one. HMRC Notice 719 has specific evidence requirements: VAT-appropriate invoices, supplier VAT registration evidence, eligibility classification per material category, all assembled within the three-month post-completion window or the reclaim is lost. We managed the paperwork from invoice one across the 13 months, cross-checked supplier VAT registrations as we went, and delivered the bound VAT-reclaim pack at handover ready for the homeowners' HMRC submission. Expected reclaim approximately £58,000.
Two hundred and seventy working days from possession of plot to family moving in for Christmas. A foundation discipline in months 1-2, a timber-frame erection in month 5, a wind-and-watertight milestone in month 5-6, an envelope and first-fix winter in months 7-9, second-fix and finishes in months 10-12, and a Christmas Eve handback at 11am.
Possession of plot Monday morning week 1. Site cabin, welfare facilities and material storage compound established at the road-frontage end of the plot. Site fencing erected to the agreed boundary. Existing services (water, gas, electricity, drainage) confirmed at the highway connection points. Topsoil stripped and stockpiled across the building footprint. Strip-footing excavation commenced week 2 to the structural engineer's depth schedule (750mm to chalk subgrade); foundations inspected by North Yorkshire Building Control surveyor week 3 and approved. Concrete poured to footings week 3 with a 5-day cure under polythene. Block-and-beam suspended floor not specified for this build; ground-bearing oversite slab construction with PIR insulation under and a damp-proof membrane lapped over the slab edge poured week 4.
Ground floor slab cured and surveyed; level checked to within 5mm across the 12×18m footprint. Cavity-tray DPC and timber sole plates fixed and surveyed by the timber-frame manufacturer's setting-out engineer (Frame UK) for level and squareness; timber-frame manufacturing order confirmed week 8 against the surveyed sole-plate dimensions. Below-ground services (water main, gas main, drainage runs to the soil stack and surface-water soakaway) installed and pressure-tested. North Yorkshire Building Control oversite inspection passed week 8. Steel order placed for the 203×102mm UB curtain-wall support beam.
Twelve-week timber-frame manufacturing lead time at Frame UK. Site programme during this period: external works including the rear-garden retaining wall, driveway base preparation, and the foundation slab for the integrated double garage formed and cured in weeks 12-15. Steel beam (203×102mm UB) fabricated and delivered to site week 16 ready for the frame-up week. 50-tonne crane hire booked for weeks 19-20 against confirmed timber-frame delivery dates.
Timber-frame delivered week 19 over three flatbed loads from the Frame UK manufacturing plant. 50-tonne crane on site Tuesday morning week 19. Frame erection by Frame UK's experienced 4-person crew over 11 working days: ground-floor wall panels, intermediate floor cassettes, upper-floor wall panels, roof trusses, gable end panels. Wind-and-watertight envelope reached on the contracted Friday of week 22 with the curtain-wall steel beam set in position, all wall panels closed, all roof trusses set, breather membrane lapped over the envelope, sarking laid to the roof, scaffolding erected for the cladding and roof tiling.
Concrete tile roof installed across all main pitches week 23-24; zinc standing-seam accent installed on the entrance bay overhang week 24. Render base coat applied to the external timber-frame envelope week 24; vertical Western Red Cedar timber cladding accent panels fixed to selected elevations week 25. Schueco AWS aluminium-framed glass curtain wall delivered and installed across the rear vaulted living space week 24, set to the steel support beam to a 1mm tolerance. Schueco AWS windows installed throughout. Schueco FWS bifold doors at three positions installed week 26. First-fix plumbing commenced internally week 25: copper distribution to all bathrooms and kitchen, hot-water cylinder position prepared in the airing cupboard, ASHP refrigerant lines pre-routed to the external unit position.
First-fix electrical across the entire house: ring final and lighting circuits, dedicated kitchen and ASHP circuits, hard-wired interlinked smoke and heat alarms to BS 5839 Part 6 Grade D Category LD2, CAT-6 network cabling to home-office and bedroom positions, EV-charging cabling pre-routed to the garage. MVHR ductwork installed throughout: rigid 150mm trunking from the loft-mounted MVHR unit to all 14 ducted positions, with acoustic silencers in the supply runs to bedrooms. Wet UFH pipe loops laid across the entire ground floor (excluding the carpeted snug), connected to the manifold in the utility cupboard, pressure-tested overnight before screeding. ASHP external unit delivered and positioned on its concrete plinth. Render finish coat applied externally week 32.
Liquid floor screed poured over the UFH pipe loops across the entire ground floor; cured for 28 days under controlled drying. Plasterboard fixed to all internal walls and ceilings; taped, jointed, sanded and prepared for skim. Plaster skim finish applied across the entire house. North Yorkshire Building Control pre-plaster inspection passed week 38: insulation, fire compartmentation, sound insulation, MVHR ductwork, electrical first-fix all inspected and approved. Tom Howley kitchen survey completed against the now-screeded ground-floor levels and the plastered wall positions; bespoke kitchen manufacturing order confirmed for week 45 delivery.
Decoration commenced across the entire house: walls and ceilings in the homeowners' selected heritage palette, woodwork in eggshell. Large-format 800×1600mm matt-stone porcelain installed across the entire ground floor (excluding the carpeted snug) and across all five bathrooms by the same specialist installer we used at Wilmslow Spa Bathroom Suite and Didsbury Master Ensuite earlier in the year; lippage tolerance held to 0.5mm contractually, measured 0.4mm worst-case at handback. Engineered oak flooring installed across the upper-floor landing and bedrooms.
Tom Howley bespoke kitchen delivered week 45 and installed by Tom Howley's own specialist install team over 8 days: painted Shaker carcase in heritage colour, quartz worktop, integrated Sub-Zero fridge-freezer, Wolf range cooker, Miele dishwasher, Quooker boiling tap, island with breakfast bar. Five bathrooms fitted out across weeks 45-47: master ensuite (large-format porcelain to walls and ceiling, walk-in wet zone, freestanding bath, twin vanity), second ensuite (large-format porcelain, walk-in wet zone), family bathroom (P-shaped shower bath, vanity, ceramic tile), and two further ensuite WCs. All Schluter Kerdi tanked with 24-hour flood tests held as contractual hold-points consistent with the rest of our bathroom-category work. Internal joinery completed: skirting, architrave, hardwood handrails to the staircase, internal doors hung throughout.
Part L air permeability test conducted by independent UKAS-accredited testing contractor week 50: target 5m³/h.m² at 50Pa, achieved 4.1m³/h.m² on first measurement. Part L compliance certificate issued. MVHR commissioned and balanced by the manufacturer's engineer same week: design flow rates achieved at all 14 ducted positions, supply-extract balance verified. ASHP commissioned by MCS-accredited installer same week: weather-compensation set, wet UFH zoned per ground-floor room, hot-water cylinder commissioning cycle run, integration with the homeowners' existing Hive smart heating environment confirmed. External works completed: driveway block-paving laid, garden landscaping to the architect's drawing, external lighting commissioned, Hormann sectional garage doors installed, EV-charging position pre-cabled to the homeowners' future-proofed kit.
Final snag round across the entire house weeks 52-54: 73 minor items closed by week 55 lunchtime. Builders clean across all rooms weeks 54-55. Self-Build VAT Scheme pack assembled and bound with all 13 months of VAT-appropriate invoices, supplier VAT registration evidence, material category eligibility classification per HMRC Notice 719, ready for the homeowners' submission within the three-month post-completion window. North Yorkshire Building Control completion inspection conducted Christmas Eve morning at 9am: all stages cross-referenced, completion certificate issued at 10.30am. Practical completion certificate issued at 11am. Homeowners arrived at 1pm with their Bettys hamper and their first Christmas tree. The MVHR was running, the ASHP wet UFH was at 22°C, the curtain wall was throwing winter afternoon sun across the new oak ground floor. Family in for Christmas Eve dinner at 5.30pm with their two children.
The technical detail behind a 290m² ground-up contemporary timber-frame self-build delivered to Part L 2021 air permeability standards, MCS-accredited ASHP heating commissioning, the same large-format porcelain installer specialism we use across the bathroom category, and HMRC Notice 719 Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork coordinated from invoice one.
750mm-deep strip footings on chalk subgrade following pre-bid ground investigation (4 trial holes plus 1 borehole to 4m). 100mm sand blinding, concrete to structural engineer's mix specification. Ground-bearing oversite slab with 100mm PIR insulation under and damp-proof membrane lapped over the slab edge. North Yorkshire Building Control foundation inspection passed week 3.
Frame UK insulated timber-frame structure, off-site fabricated in Yorkshire, delivered over 3 flatbed loads, erected on prepared sole plates over 11 working days using a 50-tonne crane and 4-person crew. Ground-floor wall panels, intermediate floor cassettes, upper-floor wall panels, roof trusses, gable ends. Wind-and-watertight on contracted Friday of week 22.
Schueco AWS aluminium-framed glass curtain wall in anthracite-grey finish across 5m clear span at the rear of the vaulted living space. Supported by 203×102mm UB steel beam designed by structural engineer, set in position during frame-up week. Curtain wall installed to 1mm tolerance across the span. Cold-bridge thermography test at completion: zero anomalies.
Schueco FWS aluminium-framed bifold doors at three positions: kitchen-dining onto rear terrace, snug onto side garden, master bedroom onto first-floor balcony. Schueco AWS aluminium-framed windows throughout in matching anthracite-grey finish. Argon-filled double-glazed sealed units; thermal performance to Part L compliance.
Render base coat and finish coat to majority of external timber-frame envelope; vertical Western Red Cedar timber cladding accent panels to entrance bay, dormer cheeks, rear vertical band beside curtain wall. Concrete tile pitched roof to main pitches with zinc standing-seam accent on entrance bay overhang. Roof breather membrane and ventilation maintained to current Building Regulations.
High-efficiency MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery) unit in the loft space with rigid 150mm ductwork to all 14 ducted positions across both floors. Acoustic silencers in supply runs to bedrooms. Commissioned and balanced by manufacturer's engineer at week 50; design flow rates achieved at all positions; supply-extract balance verified.
Independent UKAS-accredited air permeability test conducted week 50: target 5m³/h.m² at 50Pa contracted, achieved 4.1m³/h.m² on first measurement. Comfortably inside Part L 2021 requirement of 8 for new-build dwellings. Part L compliance certificate issued.
Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) primary heating, MCS-accredited installer, integrated hot-water cylinder, weather-compensation control. Wet underfloor heating to entire ground floor zoned per room (manifold in utility cupboard); traditional radiators upper floor. Integrated with the homeowners' existing Hive smart heating environment.
800×1600mm matt-stone porcelain to entire ground floor (excluding carpeted snug) and to all 5 bathrooms. Installed by the same specialist large-format porcelain fixer we used at Wilmslow Spa Bathroom Suite and Didsbury Master Ensuite earlier in the year. Lippage tolerance held to 0.5mm contractually; measured 0.4mm worst-case at handback.
Bespoke Tom Howley painted Shaker kitchen in heritage colour, quartz worktop, island with breakfast bar seating four. Integrated appliances: Sub-Zero fridge-freezer, Wolf range cooker, Miele dishwasher, Quooker boiling tap. Installed by Tom Howley's own specialist team over 8 days week 45-46.
Master ensuite, second ensuite, family bathroom, plus two further ensuite WCs. Schluter Kerdi tanked with 24-hour flood tests held as contractual hold-points across all bathrooms (consistent with the bathroom-category methodology applied across our Hale, Wilmslow, Didsbury and Sale Family Bathroom case studies earlier in the year). Mid-to-high-tier brassware specifications.
Integrated double garage with two Hormann sectional insulated up-and-over doors. Internal access door to utility/boot room. EV-charging position pre-cabled to the homeowners' future-proofed kit (32A single-phase). Concrete oversite slab, insulated party wall to the main house, mechanical extraction.
HMRC Notice 719 (DIY Housebuilders' Scheme) paperwork coordinated by us from invoice one across the 13 months. VAT-appropriate invoicing on materials throughout, supplier VAT registration cross-checked, eligibility classification per material category. Bound VAT-reclaim pack delivered to the homeowners at handback. Expected reclaim approximately £58,000.
A 290m² ground-up contemporary 5-bedroom timber-frame self-build delivered against a 13-month fixed-price contract with no variation orders, the chalk-subgrade foundations designed and costed pre-bid following a pre-quotation ground investigation, the timber-frame supplier locked at quotation stage with a wind-and-watertight milestone hit on the contracted Friday of week 22, the 5m Schueco AWS curtain wall installed to a 1mm span tolerance against the structural-engineer-designed 203×102mm UB steel support beam, an air permeability test result of 4.1m³/h.m² against a contractual 5 target and the Part L 2021 regulatory 8 ceiling, MVHR commissioned and balanced to design flow rates across all 14 positions, ASHP commissioned by an MCS-accredited installer and integrated with the homeowners' existing Hive smart heating environment, the bound HMRC Notice 719 Self-Build VAT Scheme pack delivered at handback ready for the homeowners' submission within the three-month post-completion window, the North Yorkshire Building Control completion certificate issued at 10.30am Christmas Eve, and the family across the threshold for Christmas Eve dinner at 5.30pm with their two children.
This is the second project we have delivered for these homeowners. The first was the 16-week, £140,000 rear extension and kitchen overhaul on their previous family home in Ilkley four years ago — a project they later told us had been the single biggest factor in achieving their asking price when they sold the house. They came back to us for the Harrogate self-build with trust earned on the prior project, and we delivered the largest residential project on our portfolio against fixed price and to a contracted Christmas Eve handback. The Wakefield Distribution Warehouse we delivered earlier in the year was a £3.8M industrial new-build for a developer-led speculative project; this Harrogate Self-Build was the same construction-led discipline applied to the very different commercial model of a self-build for the family who would actually live in the home. Different sector, different client model, different chapter of life. Same disciplines underneath: pre-bid surveys for what sits underground, supplier chains locked at quotation stage, milestones held to the day, and statutory paperwork handled by us before the homeowners had to think about it.
Building Group built our self-build forever home in Harrogate. This was the second project we have used them for. Four years ago, when we still lived in Ilkley, they delivered a sixteen-week rear extension and kitchen overhaul on that house against fixed price with no variation orders, and the estate agent told us when we sold a year later that the extension was the single biggest factor in our asking price. We bought the Harrogate plot with planning permission already in hand, sold the Ilkley house, and tendered four contractors for the new build. Building Group came in second on price by about fourteen thousand pounds. We chose them anyway because of the prior project and because their quotation was the only one to commission a structural engineer pre-bid for a ground survey on our plot's chalk subgrade with the foundation depths costed inside the contract sum, the only one to engage Frame UK at quotation stage with a fixed timber-frame kit price and a confirmed lead time, and the only one to coordinate the HMRC Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork from invoice one rather than telling us to "arrange it ourselves" at handback. Thirteen months later we walked into a 290 square metre five-bedroom contemporary house that hit four point one on the air test against a regulatory ceiling of eight, hit wind-and-watertight on the contracted Friday of week twenty-two, hit Christmas Eve handback at eleven o'clock in the morning with the Building Control completion certificate issued at half past ten and the bound VAT-reclaim pack handed to us at lunchtime ready for our HMRC submission. The MVHR was running, the heat pump was at twenty-two degrees on the underfloor heating, the curtain wall was throwing winter afternoon sun across the oak floor, and our two children arrived from London and Edinburgh for Christmas Eve dinner at half past five. The expected VAT reclaim alone is around fifty-eight thousand pounds. We have already recommended Building Group to two friends in Yorkshire who are scoping similar self-builds.
If you've bought a plot with planning in place, or you're scoping a custom build with an architect, or you're a returning client thinking about a forever-home self-build, we'll come out for a free site visit, walk the plot with you and your architect, and put a fixed-price methodology document on your desk — with the pre-bid ground survey, the timber-frame supplier price, the curtain-wall structural engineering, the MVHR and ASHP commissioning interface, the Self-Build VAT Scheme paperwork and the Building Regulations completion route all costed in.
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