How I built a house, by hand, solo, with no building experience by 'Microhouse'

Come along to The Outhouse (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh) at 6.30 pm for a talk on ‘How I built a house, by hand, solo, with no building experience' by 'Micro House'. Everyone is welcome to the free event; people are warmly invited to bring an item of food to put on the table and help take away everything at the end so there is no waste.

'Micro House' is the name by which the speaker has chosen to share as his privacy is important to him.

### Bullet points of talk:

• Planning permission and building standards – what was needed?
• Groundworks – drains and supplies
• Foundation – screw piles
• Timber Frame – the structure
• Roof – reclaimed scotch slate
• Cladding – burnt timber / shou sugi ban
• Insulation and U-values – aiming for near-zero energy

### A few paragraphs on your subject:

I built a house in my garden, with no experience in building, no trade, no training. I’d never built so much as a shed before this. And it’s been built to Scottish building standards, which means it’s a habitable house. I also made it complicated…

I used screw piles for a foundation, with no guidance, and nobody to copy. I used reclaimed Scotch slates for the roof, learning from an essay I found online. And I’m trying to achieve a level of insulation which will need little to no energy to heat. All of this from a base knowledge of zero.

So I’ll try my best to go through the processes I went through to go from no knowledge, to building something which, I hope, will last for centuries.

For more events information and knowledge resources including his website about the talk please visit:

https://raggeduniversity.co.uk/2023/09/14/27th-sept-2023-how-i-built-a-house-by-hand-solo-with-no-building-experience-by-micro-house/