Croft Moraig
Front elevation from the lane
Front elevation from the gate
Getting out of the ground 17th March 2013
Walls up 21st March
Part way through the roof 31st March
Room in the roof 12th April 2013
Progress on the roof photographed from nearby Mount Topsoil 23rd April 2013
This website
… tells the story of our new house, a self build in the Scottish Borders. We started the process during the autumn of 2011, and we’re now building our new home. So for a warts and all story, read on…
Latest news | All our news | From the start
And they all lived happily ever after
Underfloor heating
Planning applications
You can read through our planning applications at the Scottish Borders Council planning portal.
- Planning application for the house
Status: Approved - Planning application for the garage
Status: Approved subject to conditions - Scottish Building Warrant Application for the house and garage
Status: Building warrant issued
We will be … here
Here we are
The what and the how
The Design
In the beginning was the dormer. There seemed to be no escaping them in rural Scotland. At one point we got the strong impression that “Scottish vernacular” was being defined as “anything with dormers”. Flicking through the standard designs of some of the timber frame house builders it looked like “traditional” meant lots of fiddly, heat-stealing, leaky roof detailing. Not for us, thank you!
Keeping warm
We’ve been in the Scottish Borders at times in the winter when the temperature during the day never got over -5C for days on end. We don’t like spending money on fuel so we wanted to take advantage of the various renewable energy heating systems out there which will insulate us not only from the cold but from rising energy costs into the bargain.
