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Building your dream home is a lengthy and sometimes daunting process, and finding the financial backing which is right for you can seem impossible. Newbury Building Society has created this [...]

When it comes to choosing a tiling system for the floors and patios of your self build home, we strongly recommend the Porcelanosa system because it has a wide selection of high quality tiles [...]

Vision Development of Newbury are now producing timber frame house kits in a variety of styles and sizes.  The kits are manufactured in our Beenham (between Reading & Newbury) factory.  We [...]

The scaffolding on the first house has now come down and Vision Development’s work on that house has been completed.  Here are some pictures of the outside of the house showing the [...]

The work continues with much being done inside both houses including plastering, heating and ventilation work.  Of particular note are the energy saving solutions that are being installed which, [...]

Despite the continued appalling weather, much progress has been made during May.  The first house has had the outside bricks put in place and much inside work completed.  The second house has had [...]

Once again, despite the weather, much progress has been made during April.  Here are the results of two photo shoots taken one week and three weeks after the last installment.  This shows not [...]

Now the foundations are in place the timber frame panels are put in place (for both upstairs and downstairs).  Also added are the internal partitions and the upstairs floor.  This entire process [...]

The levelling of the ground and excavations for the foundations not only requires a lot of digging but also creates a lot of surplus soil which has to be moved. The foundations are dug as deep [...]

In earlier blog posts we introduced the advantages of self build and gave some guidelines on starting up and managing the project.  Now we’re going to give a little more guidance on how to [...]