Practical writing from the people who run our jobs day to day. Regulations, timelines, advice for anyone about to commission building work.
A short guide to the eight decisions that shape whether an extension delivers what you actually wanted, and what to raise with your builder on the first site visit.
The questions that separate a builder who will finish your job well from one who will not. Print this list, take it to every quote meeting.
From the day the units are delivered to the day you cook your first meal, week by week. Includes the things no builder tells you about at the quote stage.
Cafes, retail units and small offices that cannot afford to close. The tactics we use to programme a fit-out around a live trading business.
Fire escape, insulation, headroom, means of escape, staircase pitch. What the regulations actually require, without the acronyms.
When you need a party wall notice, what it costs, who pays for the surveyor and what happens if the neighbour objects.
“The team ran a full loft conversion for us over ten weeks. They started on the day they said, finished on the day they said, and the final invoice matched the quote to the pound. We would not use anyone else now.”
“We asked them to fit out our new cafe while trading continued next door. They screened the site, worked out of hours where they had to, and we lost less than a week of full trading. Exceptional.”
“A ground-up new build on a difficult plot. They ran it under a JCT contract with weekly reports and photos. We knew exactly where the project was every week. The finished house is better than we hoped.”