Top Tips When Building Your Own Home Building, extending or renovating your own home is demanding and you need to be able to juggle really well to make sure you keep on top of everything. Juggling priorities, suppliers, materials and costs as well as the family is a large part of self builds and…
Learn about Construction Project Management with CLPM at the NSBRC. If you are contemplating building your dream home, or planning to improve your existing home, why not attend one of the NSBRC Training Courses to build your knowledge and confidence? The National Self Build and Renovation Centre have developed a suite of courses for…
CLPM help Self Builders realise their dream home Our recent clients were extremely diligent about undertaking their research. They attended the Project Management course at the NSBRC, which is run by CLPM’s director Charlie Laing. Not being experts in building homes, our client knew he didn’t have the knowledge and expertise to manage a self build…
Our team have come up with some Project Management Tips for your Self-Build to get you on the right track. If you are considering undertaking a self-build project, you will need to spend lots of time planning and researching. CLPM’s Project Management Tips for your Self-Build explained. 1 – Understanding your priorities CLPM…
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…
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…
Insulating central heating pipes. Talking about insulation of central heating pipes… You’ve specified a band A condensing boiler. You know how to set it up, the radiators are the right size and you think you can now relax and let the plumber install it all, right? Actually no! There is one more area you…
Have you been to the National Self Build & Renovation Centre? You can now find CLPM at The National Self Build & Renovation Centre. This purpose built site has been built on such a scale to house all you will need to know about self building. All of the things you expect to find are…