Smoky Bacon
Full Design and Fit-out, April-October 2019
In the summer of 2020 I took a newly-welded hull of a widebeam canal barge and renovated it into my home.
The project included:
- all plumbing (gas pipelay, 2x hot and cold water pipelay and pump circuit via twin-coil calorifier and engine cooler, bilge pump, mixed fuel stove insntallation + exrtraction central heating via bespoke backburner radiator curcuit, compost toilet + fan extraction)
- electrics (full-cicuitry and installation of 4x solar panel system + 12v > 240v inverter-charger, full circuitry throughout, mainline connection
- first-fix (battening, cladding, window frames, kitchen, bathroom and hearth carcassing)
- second-fix (built-in wardrobe, storage chest/daybed, entry steps, storage joinery.
It’s called Smoky Bacon and it was my home for three years.
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Full Design and Fit-out, April-October 2019
In the summer of 2020 I took a newly-welded hull of a widebeam canal barge and renovated it into my home.
The project included:
- all plumbing (gas pipelay, 2x hot and cold water pipelay and pump circuit via twin-coil calorifier and engine cooler, bilge pump, mixed fuel stove insntallation + exrtraction central heating via bespoke backburner radiator curcuit, compost toilet + fan extraction)
- electrics (full-cicuitry and installation of 4x solar panel system + 12v > 240v inverter-charger, full circuitry throughout, mainline connection
- first-fix (battening, cladding, window frames, kitchen, bathroom and hearth carcassing)
- second-fix (built-in wardrobe, storage chest/daybed, entry steps, storage joinery.
It’s called Smoky Bacon and it was my home for three years.
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Almond House
Design + Renovation, South East London
2023-ongoing
Full renovation of a two-bedroom groundfloor flat, inn-sutu.
Project involves:
- Bathroom plumbing redesign and installation
- heating and underfloor heating installation
-floorboards, tiling installation
- electrical partial redesign and installation
- skirting, architrave, windowframe joinery
- Demolition of load-bearing spine wall + Structural steel box-frame completed by Neris Building Solutions
- Stud wall, cloakroom, larder and bespoke fitted wardrobe joinery completed by Universal Joinery
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Design + Renovation, South East London
2023-ongoing
Full renovation of a two-bedroom groundfloor flat, inn-sutu.
Project involves:
- Bathroom plumbing redesign and installation
- heating and underfloor heating installation
-floorboards, tiling installation
- electrical partial redesign and installation
- skirting, architrave, windowframe joinery
- Demolition of load-bearing spine wall + Structural steel box-frame completed by Neris Building Solutions
- Stud wall, cloakroom, larder and bespoke fitted wardrobe joinery completed by Universal Joinery
Grow Heathrow
Design + Construction, 2011-2012
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For £40 and using a range of salvaged materials from site, I designed and built a hut in which I lived for one year, as part of the cological plant nursey Grow Heathrow, a site which was occupied in resistance to the Airport’s proposed third runway. The project lasted 10 years and the runway was eventually, after much resistance, cancelled. As a resident of Grow Heathrow I was also involved in the construction of a haybale house, wind turbine construction and eviction resistance infrastructure.
