12 steps to self-build success
Tips from a couple who did it themselves Ruth Bloomfield Starting from scratch: Tim and Jane Meggitt learnt valuable lessons while building their home in Surrey, at a total cost of £1.6mVICKI COUCHMAN Share Save Jane Meggitt’s life ambitions had never included physical labour on building sites, wrangling prima donna builders and travelling the country inspecting bricks. Then fate intervened in the form of Tim, the man who would become her husband. “He was doing up a completely dilapidated farmhouse near York,” Jane recalls. “I didn’t really want to get involved, but I started going to the site just to have a look and gradually it became addictive.” Three decades...
