5 Reasons to Renovate, Remodel or Extend Your Home Is renovating, refurbishing or extending my home in 2015 a sound financial decision? It’s a dilemma many have pondered since the crash in 2008. Most of us renovate, remodel or extend our homes to improve our quality of life. In the past, when house price…
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…
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.
Go Beyond Building Regulations. We have found this blog from 10 years ago – and the advice couldn’t be more relevant to todays home builders. The regulations were made more energy focussed in 2022, and with the focus on reducing carbon and moving to renewable technologies, there are more planned to come. So, the essence…
Which rainwater harvesting system is right for you? There are a number of different factors in deciding what sort of rainwater harvesting system to choose. Key questions to address are about space for or a system and can you afford to install and maintain one. Questions that need to be addressed are in the…
Anyone read ‘Build your own brick house’ yet? Have a read ‘Build your own brick house’ is now out and a good read for all DIYers who are serious about building their own home! Written by Gerald Cole, this book takes you step by step through the processes and practicalities of building your own home…
Retrofitting to PassivHaus standard The secret in obtaining the best possible air test rating is paying attention to detail as early as possible in the project. That is the key to retrofitting to PassivHaus standards. By the time one comes to air testing, a good way through the project, it is already too late…
What are the worst issues faced in a refurbishment or new build? A question out to our experts. I am often asked what is the most troublesome part of refurbishments or new build elements to construction projects? Without hesitation, I would say WINDOWS (and to a much lesser extent doors, potentially procured from the same…
Don’t Let April Showers Flood Your Home Flood prevention measures for home owners. With the continuous development, we now find that many homes are built on old flood plains. It is worth knowing if that applies to you. The weather is definitely weird lately. We’ve had an extreme Winter and Spring just won’t…
The Pros And Cons Of House Extensions We’ve talked about house extensions before but from the point of view of adding value to your home but is it always financially viable to extend? We look at the pros and cons of house extensions. Lifestyle changes mean that homes become too small and for some,…