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    Greener living

    Nov 04, 2021 3 minutes

    HOMEOWNERS Ben and Kay Adam-Smith, and their children James and Emily

    LOCATION Hertfordshire

    BUILD TIME 11 months (Dec 17 - Oct 18)

    BUILD ROUTE Main contractor

    CONSTRUCTION Masonry cavity wall

    SIZE 226m2

    PLOT COST £703,000 (in 2016)

    BUILD COST £606,000

    VALUE £1.75million

    WORDS Amy Reeves

    Darren Chung Self-building for the first time can be a daunting thing. There are a vast number of decisions to make, processes to learn and people to hire, but those challenges didn’t stop Ben Adam-Smith, who tackled the world of energy-efficient self-build head on by creating

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