Couple save £100,000 by building a home made of polystyrene instead of bricks
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A British couple saved around £100,000 (€115,000) by building their own home almost entirely by themselves. They used an unusual material: polystyrene blocks that interlock like giant Lego bricks and are filled with concrete to create sturdy, well-insulated walls. Hannah Bird and her husband, Charlie, bought a 1,000-square-metre plot in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, in June 2022 for £70,000. Rather than opt for a ready-made house, they decided to de…
In the beginning we had always thought of renovating a house, but in our area the buildings to be renovated cost £200,000 and did not even have the roof: words of Hannah Bird, 29 years old who tells his story in Metro. We are in Burnham-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town of Somerset, in the south-west of England. A house just built with two [...] The article "I and my husband have built our house alone, using blocks of polystyrene that mount like the …
AGI - Two years of construction work carried out almost entirely with their hands and a material that is usually associated with packaging, not with the walls of the house. Hannah and Charlie Bird, 26-year-old husband and wife, are giving the last touches to the house that were built by themselves in Burnham-on-Sea, seaside resort of Somerset overlooking the Bristol Canal. The polystyrene house The walls are made of blocks of polystyrene filled …
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