£1.2 million for a two bedroom, two bathroom terraced house in Kensington? It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a roof terrace and a balcony. The catch is – the property is only 7 feet wide!
To read the whole article, click here.
Category: General Section
Defect 7 – Structural Movement
Perhaps surprisingly, structural movement is common to every home in the country. Whilst almost all houses experience some level of movement, the effects are usually so minimal as to pass unnoticed.
To read the whole article, click here.
How close is too close, when it comes to trees in your garden?
The roots of trees can heave your greatest asset into the air, or they can remove all the moisture from the ground causing cracks outside your front door – and up the wall!
To read the whole article, click here.
Has Brexit affected housebuilding?
During August 2016, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) conducted a survey of 108 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), asking how the Brexit vote had affected their businesses.
To read the whole article, click here.
Trees in the news – ruining gardens, damaging houses and wasting taxpayers’ money.
In Edenthorpe in South Yorkshire, the Tesco Store has some tall trees on its border with neighbouring houses, which have grown so large that the roots have invaded the gardens. Elsewhere, a conservatory had to be rebuilt after a protected oak tree’s roots undermined it.
To read the whole article, click here.
Happiest place to live and work?
Happiness may be subjective, but that doesn’t stop various organisations conducting surveys to discover the happiest place to live (and work) in Britain. How does your home town measure up?
To read the whole article, click here.
Click-Together ‘bricks’ for buildings in the future
Everyone is aware of how Lego bricks work – click together components to create walls and roofs, ships and space-craft, cars and animals.
Now an Israeli developer has designed a set of building bricks for full-scale buildings.
To read the whole article, click here.
20 tips to prepare your home for sale
You never get a second chance to make a first impression on a purchaser, or indeed the estate agent who visits to give his valuation.
To read the whole article, click here.
New Barn Conversions in decline
The demand for Barns and other redundant agricultural and industrial buildings to convert into residential accommodation is now significantly in decline.
To read the whole article, click here.
‘Living’ bricks to supply fresh water and electricity to buildings
We are now used to photo voltaic roof tiles and other ways of using our building materials to help fuel our homes or assist with energy provision.
Now the next evolution of building materials has arrived.
To read the whole article, click here.