Time to tackle home energy efficiency? Don’t we all want to feel like this? With ever changing weather patterns, and climate change throwing up surprises. And after what was a mild and wet winter last year, the weather experts are forecasting a colder, drier winter for 2014/5. Certainly the de-icer and scraper have had…
How To Choose The Right Builder To choose the right builder you need to know how to avoid the ‘cowboys’ and, although regulations have improved, public experience hasn’t! Unfortunately more often than not something negative like “dodgy” or “cowboy” are words used when someone has had a bad experience with a builder. We get quite…
DO YOU NEED A PROJECT MANAGER? Your family is growing. You need more space but don’t want to move. You decide to extend your home. A new kitchen would be nice. Maybe a wrap-around extension with bi-fold doors and a new patio. The bathroom is looking a bit tired too. Might as well fit…
We’ve had a look at the recent new builds statistics and while they look good, public consensus is that there are still not enough new builds in the United Kingdom to fulfil demand. So you may want to add and extension to your home instead of buying a newly built house this year.
We’ve just been appointed to give a sustainability review on an old stone built Scottish croft dating from the 1820’s so it’s a challenge!
We’re contracted to manage the build of a cottage extension in Wiltshire comprising a double garage and a double storey extension to the rear. We’re then to remodel the space to create a new en-suite bedroom, a new family bathroom upstairs plus an enlarged breakfast/kitchen area on the ground floor.
VAT on construction and building projects is a contentious issue! CLPM are currently managing a construction project with three levels of VAT associated with it – 20%, 5% and zero%. Now, of course, the industry (and homeowners) would say that more works would be carried out, to the betterment of the economy generally, if all…
How much would you pay to have electricity all the time? My niece is in Guiana doing a gap year working for an educational charity. They only have electricity on occasion and so it is much more appreciated when it is connected. There is a rush to charge mobile phones, laptops and e-readers (well, the…
Have you ever thought about how precious are your DWG’s in construction? What are DWG’s A DWG file is a drawing created and used by AutoCAD. Basically it is a file with the .DWG file extension. This denotes it is an AutoCAD file. It stores metadata and 2D or 3D vector image drawings that can be…
For Tendering in Construction think ‘Go Compare!’ “Go, Compare! Go, Compare” Listening to another jingle on the radio it suddenly struck me that this is exactly what our Tendering Service does. Whilst Go Compare, Money Supermarket or Compare the Market will survey the insurance market to get a client the best insurance quote. CLPM…