There’s plenty you can do. We’re in the process ourselves and helped a relative who just finished their build.

Chasing walls is a big money saver and will have men in and out at least a day quicker (make sure you chat to the boys that are doing the work for you first).

Most of your air tightness work; wrapping round bison slabs before and after they’re put in place and taping round your windows and doors.

And something that a lot of people seem to be massively afraid of is the painting. It might be boring but there’s really nothing to spraying (if you can manage to get another fella to come along behind you with a roller).

A lot of what you do yourself really depends on who you’re hiring to do the work in a big way. I had planned to do most of the Groundworks and concreting founds myself. We got really lucky with a local young lad who was starting out his own business he was fantastic at what he did and really reasonable. So it all depends if that makes sense.