Month: September 2016

Starting a conversation about getting older and changing where you live is never going to be easy! I have produced the following questions as a way of starting a conversation if you have come to my site not knowing what to do, good luck! 1. Have you ever thought about where you are going to live when you are in your 60’ 70’s or 80’s? […]

Well show me your house or bungalow and I will find somewhere to make extra space for your loved one to live. A solution to your problem and you won’t need to spend a fortune on architects or designers fees. I will give you practical, straight forward advice to get you moving…

Hello I am a professional builder, project manager and an honest building graduate who is looking to help others build genuine granny annexes, or help them create new  multi generational living spaces. I have built and managed lots of developments for families, they are not timber sheds but proper brick and block extensions or conversions of houses, which will stand the test of time. They have […]

One of my things that I learn’t the value of even more whilst doing the annex build Number 5 & 6 was the importance of using qualified people and experienced people. Time and again during the 30 plus years I have been working building extensions and refurbishing properties I have found that many of the problems and difficulties come about when people doing the work are […]

Pay people on time who have done a good job – whatever you are doing we found that once something was done, a job finished, part delivered and we were happy then we paid the guys or the company doing the work. It just felt right, it was a habit my dad had always done and guess it kind of stuck with me to treat people […]

Keep your site tidy and clear – it might seem a bit of a strange one this, keeping a building site clean, but if you take this on board straight away trust me it will have lots of benefits, and if a tidy site/home area becomes a habit then good things will happen! Top one is safety – if you are tidy and clean and you […]

Make sure someone is in charge of important issues – there are many different issues which need to be addressed for a successful refurbishment or new living space build and in a short post I cannot address them all. What follows are some of the available ones to give you a flavour of what I mean and to try to help prevent you repeating some of the […]

It wasn’t until a little while after we had finished the main annex building that I realised how good it was to have large door openings, not just the front and back doors but the inside house doors to bedrooms and kitchens etc. Now this might not seem much of an issue to people, you might think there are lots of other more important points but […]

 – this is a good topic to raise early on between everybody because there tends to be quite a lot of upheaval during alteration works.  Although different people have very different habits, from no sentiment through to people I have known who have filled their loft space, all their cupboards and garage with stuff, it is something worth looking into early to see the size of […]

Now the reason for writing this one is that although I have previously said our project is all completed, I kind of thought it was, but it’s only now sitting and looking around our house realise that although the really big stuff is completed, there are lots of smaller jobs still to be done. These small jobs mean all sorts of things but include the following: There […]