Wealden Times | WT261 | February 2024 | Education Supplement inside

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are having a basement!” Working
with a new structural engineer a
way was found. “We needed to
pump the water out faster than it
was coming in, so we had to use a
very powerful pump.” The basement
was built and, like a 90s computer
game, they were onto the next level.
After all the drama, the building part
actually happened very fast. A prefab
home turned up like a piece of large
flat pack furniture and was turned into
a house in no time at all. “It seemed
to take ages to get to a point where we
could start building and then it seemed
to go up really quickly,” says Sian.
As you might expect the house was
actually a lot more advanced than
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