On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:53:35 +0100, "Owain"
wrote:

Get a German pre-fab and make sure it's installed by German labour.

You know, I had thought EXACTLY the same myself! Having lived in
Germany for many years and observed the self-builds that go on over
there as a matter of course I was always struck by the very high
quality of the finished properties. My late sister's property, like
most modern German houses, has a basement almost the full size of the
ground floor. The house has cast concrete subfloors, copper guttering,
*timber*-framed windows instead of horrid PVC ones, underfloor
heating, a huge plot, and so on. The gas boiler looks like something
out of Starship Enterprise - freestanding and massive.

If only I knew *how* to go about getting a German pre-fab built over
here! Maybe I should start investigating...

Thanks for your tip, Owain!

MM