REAL PROJECT CONTEMPORARY SELF-BUILD
HOMEOWNER Ralph Wood
LOCATION Bristol
SIZE 112m²
CONSTRUCTION Raft foundations with concrete block cavity wall and steel beams
BUILD ROUTE Main contractor
BUILD TIME 20 months (Oct 2019 – March 2021)
PLOT COST £50,000
BUILD COST £275,000
VALUE £600,000 (approx)
Ralph Wood bought his basement flat in a Victorian townhouse in Bristol in 2008. It came with an off-street car parking space behind the house, next to a road running parallel to his. He straightaway realised that the space could be used to build a house but didn’t appreciate that it would take a whole 13 years before that house would actually be finished and ready to move into with his partner and their two-year-old son.
