Bakers Lane
A new two-storey detached house with a double garage, on a rural plot at Bakers Lane in Black Notley, Essex. The plot has no connection to the public sewer, so the drainage is dealt with on site. Lough Build is the main contractor and the house is under construction.
Details
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Client: Mr & Mrs Lewis.
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Property: New detached house and double garage
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Started: March 2026
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Location: Black Notley, Essex
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Status: Under construction
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Budget: Undisclosed
See it being built
What better way to choose your builder than to watch one at work? Bakers Lane is a live Lough Build site, and you’re welcome to come and walk round it. See how the site is set out and run, ask whatever you like, and talk through your own project while you’re there. Site visits are by appointment.
Managed from start to finish
We set the house out on the cleared plot and poured the trench foundations in March 2026, with compressible board against the trench sides and test cubes taken from the pour. Above ground, the walls are blockwork cavity construction on an engineering-brick substructure, with a steel goalpost frame, a CaberDek first-floor deck and a trussed roof with a framed gable dormer.
Drainage and garage
There is no public sewer near the plot, so we installed two on-site drainage systems, one of them a drainage recycling system set in a deep excavation, with new drainage runs and inspection chambers to the house. The double garage sits on its own reinforced slab, poured separately from the house foundations.
The build
Groundworks and drainage
The cleared plot set out with pegs and line marking, ready for the foundation dig.
Setting out. Plot
Compressible board fixed against the trench sides, with OSB shuttering in place before the pour.
Foundations. Trenches
Concrete poured in the foundation trenches, with the shuttering braced in timber.
Foundations. Pour
A test cube taken from the foundation pour, for strength testing.
Concrete. Testing
The two on-site drainage systems delivered. The plot has no mains sewer, so both are installed on site.
Drainage. Delivery
The deep excavation for the on-site drainage recycling system, with the riser going in.
Drainage. Excavation
New drainage runs laid in the trench, with inspection chambers set in.
Drainage. Chambers
The build
Walls, floors and roof
Engineering brick and blockwork laid below the damp-proof course.
Substructure. Brickwork
The steel goalpost frame standing on the ground-floor substructure.
Steelwork. Frame
Ground-floor blockwork walls going up, with the window openings formed.
Walls. Ground floor
The first-floor deck laid in CaberDek boards across the whole floor.
First floor. Deck
First-floor blockwork going up, seen from the scaffold.
Walls. First floor
Roof trusses going up on the wallplate.
Roof. Trusses
The gable dormer framed and boarded in plywood.
Roof. Dormer
The double garage slab: mesh reinforcement on spacers over the membrane, ready for the pour.
Garage. Slab
Building the roof
The roof is built with trusses on the wallplate and a framed gable dormer boarded in plywood. Foil-faced insulation goes between the rafters, and the membrane and fascias follow on at the eaves.
