My house build journey: the DIY bits

Shailesh
7 min readFeb 5, 2023

My previous articles at

  1. My house build journey : Location
  2. My house build journey : Design
  3. My house build journey : Building permit
  4. My house build journey : Technical Consultation
  5. My house build journey : Stalled by Bank Bureaucracy
  6. My house build journey: Start Message
  7. My house build journey: Foundation
  8. My house build journey: CLT frame installation (K L trä stomresning), Insulation (Isolering)
  9. My house build journey: Roof, windows and the contractor hell problem

Initially I had only planned to do the facade work myself but as the contractors kept eating away my budget the work that I had to do grew a lot. And after witnessing the quality of the work, I realised I could do it myself with a little more attention and care. I was inexperienced but was able to learn on the go of course making some mistakes and redoing some stuff.

Kitchen and Bathroom walls:

The first thing that I started was the service cavity work for the kitchen and bathrooms.

In Sweden there are organisations that research and publish standards on how a particular construction is to be carried out. Sakervatten is one such organisation that deals with all wet room construction details. I had planned to follow those guidelines. There were some small changes done by my architect who…

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Shailesh

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