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Forum:	Building And Renovating Your Own Castle
Topic:	Modern Day castle construction

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Tony Lumsden I'm seriously planning my retirement home in New Zealand and wish to spend the next 25 years building my 'Castle' out of modern construction materials.I would appreciate any information sites on original designs, heating and lighting of castles. I am planning for a 2-3 floor design that ressembles original architecture as close as possible but with modern day ammenities.It has to have a flushing loo !!!!
I would appreciate any help.
duncan Try reading some of the old mails in this forum and others as the intire site has many listed.
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Megan and Ralph
CASTLE DUNCAN
"Nothing EVER gets built
on schedule or within budget!"
Cheop's Law

AJR A flushing loo !!!? Where would it "flush" to ? Down a latrine chute or into a tank for future use on unwanted visitors ?
Andrew
duncan Andrew, Now thats one idea i like!!
A little lime to control the smell and other smaller vermin while in the tank and you have instant door to door sellsman repellant.
Gotta have a fire hose to clean up the mess but hey, its a good idea!
Erik Schmidt Hi Tony,
To what extent will you be using modern materials? Will it still be stone, or are you going to imitate it? With 25 years to do it, you can go for the real thing.
What type of castle? You say "origianl architecture", that covers at least 400 years (600 years+ if you consider manor houses to be castles) and many countries.
The style of the castle you intend to build will influence greatly the authenticity you can achieve. The big windows really spoil an attempt to reproduce a functional, 12th century castle.
There was a website of US "castles" posted here somewhere with many examples of what not to do.
I'm afraid I can't point you to technical info, but the info you need will depend on how authentic you want to be.
When you say flushing loo, I assume you mean flushing into a sewerage line, not the moat?
Erik
Tony Lumsden We have the unfortunate handicap of 'Building Inspectors' that cannot see how anyone could replicate a 12th century castle in stone and honestly say it will survive 100 years. The only type of product for this type of construction is concrete blocks to comply with NZ building laws. Sewage system would be a must as I would want to be able to breath in the summer, definitely a moat, but to go against your religious beliefs, functional design would probably include aluminium windows.
My family came from Auchline, Aberdeenshire, so I would look at that area for inspiration
Erik Schmidt Aluminium windows? Ohhh, you are such a sinner Tony!!
I can go one better than concrete blocks. Period castle walls were in fact constructed by building up the faces with more or less well cut stone and infilling the core with rubble and motar. All you need do is replace the mortar/rubble infill with steel reinforced concrete and you will keep the authorities hapopy as well as have the correct stone wall look.
Erik
Guy McDowell There is an interesting site at castlemagick.com that shows some detail of his building method. Might be a start.
If you are more concerned with meeting building codes than total authenticity just look for books on building with stone and build to your castle-like design. That's pretty much my plan.
Guy