BUILD NOTE

What the fan door found

JANUARY 2026

The fan door does not care about your drawings. It pressurises the house and tells you the truth in air changes per hour, and at Long Barn the truth was 0.9 when we had promised 0.6. Somewhere, the barn was breathing where it should not.

Three days with a smoke pencil found it: a single service penetration behind the kitchen units, sleeved but not sealed, hidden by the one run of pipework that went in on a Friday. We opened the wall, taped it properly, and retested at 0.54. The lesson is not about tape. It is about Fridays.

Every house is holding its breath. We build the exhale.

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A-000 · TITLE SHEET — ISSUED 2026

STUDIO

Ashlar Atelier
14 Quarry Bench, Kingsholt
Gloucestershire GL1 4TN

REVISION HISTORY

2011 A FOUNDED. ONE BENCH, TWO PEOPLE.2016 D THE YARD AT KINGSHOLT.2019 H RAVEN HOWE COMPLETES.2024 M THE GLASS FOLD.2026 N THIS SHEET ISSUED.

DRAWN / CHECKED

DRAWN MH · CHECKED RA · APPROVED EM

SCALE

1:1 — ALWAYS, IN THE END

STATUS

WE TAKE THREE PROJECTS A YEAR · ONE PLACE REMAINS OPEN FOR 2027

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