• ‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch

    ‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch
    They laid floors, installed piping, hung ceilings and erected frames – and that was just the easy bit. Our writer reports on a miraculous 15-year self-build that promises capped-price housing for everKareem Dayes’s story will be familiar to many millennials. Moving between rented house shares, with stints in leaky warehouses and spells back home with the parents, Dayes led a precarious existence – going from one temporary set-up to the next, continually subject to evictions and

Follow @architectureuk1 on Twitter!