Telling your neighbours, whether you have a good relationship with them or not, that they are going to have to put up with a building site next door for the next 8 months is never an easy thing to do. It doesn’t matter whether you intend to completely refurbish your home or just build a small extension. The noise, the dirt & dust and the builders stomping in and out … [Read more...]
Can You Really Extend Your Home for Just £20K?!
Lets be honest.. We all love a good Home Improvement show on TV. Whether its Grand Designs, Amazing Spaces, Property Ladder, Homes under the Hammer… you name it, we lap it up! But how useful are these shows to us in the real world? How much of it is just gloss and shine for the cameras and what can we actually learn from them for use in our own projects? Its time we … [Read more...]
Grade Your Kitchen In 2 Simple Steps
If there’s one thing for sure is that the kitchen is the centre piece of the home. It’s the place where our meals are cooked, where we eat and where we meet and socialise with our families. Now I’ve mentioned many times before that terraced houses are not designed for modern living and that applies more so to the kitchen than any other room in the house. The terraced … [Read more...]
Preventing Theft When Your House Is A Building Site
A survey that was recently conducted by the Chartered Institute of Building Identified here in the UK found that 92% of participants in the survey from the Construction Industry are affected regularly by theft with 21% admitting that it happens on a weekly basis on their sites. Now whilst these figures refer to theft of machinery, tools, etc there is also a very real threat … [Read more...]
3 Insider Tricks To Building The Ultimate Ground Floor Extension
In this blog post I'm going to share with you the 3 big issues when extending the ground floor in a typical UK house and more importantly what you can do about them. Extending a ground floor is a great way to get a tonne of extra space especially for open plan kitchen/dining rooms. However it’s not as simple as just adding some more room to back of the house. There are … [Read more...]
