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What would you go for Matt? I'm quite taken with the idea of a wood frame house with straw bale walls.
Why have two structural walls? Unless you mean the straw 'cassette' walls such as used on the S-House.
Totally depends on site, design, budget and then some more faffy bits.
Straw bale = great for self build, if done right (and maintain the waterproof render...), cheap, simple, long lasting. Almost impossible to sell on, NEVER going to be mass market, damp in bales = dead building.
Timber frame = soooo many options. May I suggest the best on the market? PassiveHaus or AECB sir? ohhh, suits you.
http://www.natural-building.co.uk/passiv_haus.html
I'm thinking they may be hippy/eco warrior kinda people with a nice nest egg laid down by wealthy relatives who made all their money out of heavy industry, hence the "we must live an ecologicaly friendly lifestyle" to make up for what our loaded parents/grandparents did.
Maybe they worked, bought a house then sold it to cash in the equity?
Matt, can you build us a house in say 6 months time?
Maybe they worked, bought a house then sold it to cash in the equity?
That's what I assumed. They were selling a reasonable big house in Brighton that they seem to have bought when prices were low and sold when they were high and spent the profits on a relatively cheap house somewhere that prices were much lower.
If we'd sold our house at the top of the market we'd have had £80k cash and that's just a 3-bed semi in the cheap part of a North East town.