BATH HOUSE MAKES PROGRESS

Tuesday 28th August was a very special day for the Tiffany Wood and her family as they eagerly awaited the arrival of the first Baufritz lorry and the most enormous crane you’ve ever seen on a single residential building project.  Video cameras poised they watched as the 220 tonne crane moved into position ready to lift the first elements of their new Baufritz home into position.  

Piece by piece, the crane winched the elements into place.  Precision was essential for this very complex project as each element had to be elevated onto the steeply sloping site and leveraged between two protected tree zones at the entrance.  Since the site was not visible from the road, the crane drivers and Baufritz team had to work very closely together via radio to ensure that each element was guided in to place.   

Tiffany Wood said: “We looked extensively in to the German prefabricated housing market, and the minute we walked in to the Baufritz factory in Germany, we knew it would be very hard to go anywhere else. Their approach in terms of quality, sheer beauty, and healthy ecological building, is unsurpassed.  Baufritz is miles ahead in so many ways, and we feel so privileged to now own one of their first homes here in the UK.  

The complexity of the building operation was incredible, but it was completed with speed (ahead of schedule!), efficiency, immaculate organisation and attention to detail. The Baufritz team was wonderful, and the very experience was quite surreal. After a whole year of delay, frustration and problem after problem in the ground, the joy of having our home erected in just three days cannot be described!  And now that the schedule of works for completing the interior of the house has begun, we feel in such safe hands; a weight upon our shoulders has been lifted, and we just can't wait to move in!”  

The house will be a contemporary style house that is a timber construction with partial cladding in Bath stone in order to ensure that the building is sympathetic to the surrounding Bath architecture. A large double-storey glazed element to the front of the building makes the most of the magnificent views.  Inside the house a beautiful elliptical staircase forms the stunning centrepiece of this unique five bedroom home.  The house has been built on top of a complex basement structure that was constructed by Baufritz’s partner company, Glatthaar, Europe’s No 1 basement builders.

Baufritz (UK) Ltd.
Phone: 01223 235632
Fax: 01223 237925, enquiries@baufritz.co.uk

Registered in England and Wales at The Workplace, Oakington Road, Cambridge CB3 0QH
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