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Watch this space for real life project blogs from self-builders and renovators. You'll also find news, views and comments from the Editors and Experts behind Homebuilding & Renovating magazine. If you're interested in writing a blog on your own project, please get in touch.
Latest Blogs
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My six shillings worth for today
I've always been interested in the history of buildings so once we started getting serious about this one, I did a bit of digging to see what I could find out about its precedence. Partly because that's my thing and also I was still quietly considering the serial-killer theory...
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Architect plans!
Click on the gallery above to enlarge and scroll through the floorplans I shortlisted a few Architects but went with Planmore . www.planmore.co.uk are based in Bedfordshire so London wasn't too far them . Planmore came recommended to me from a family member as well as a friend...
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You Can't Say We Can't Build
I was listening to a podcast on the way home from the office last night about a teacher in the USA who got sick of her very young class segmenting themselves into smaller cliques who excluded others. Kids were excluded from another group's game time, and so on. She seemed to...
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Build my Bungalow
So this is where the journey begins. I will be blogging my renovations on a 1930 bungalow here. There is a more detailed blog at www.buildmybungalow.blogspot.co.uk So the journey begins-It's time I moved out of the rabbit hutch flat that served me well in my batchelor days and...
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Straw Bale Houses - Is it Time to rewrite the Story of the Three Little Pigs?
When I posted on Twitter that I wanted to find out more about the durability of straw bale building, one of my not so helpful friends said that he had just read the story of the Three Little Pigs to his kids and that I should interview the first one. Far from a house being blown...
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Too busy to blog!
Self builder Mark explains the reasoning behind his choices for both his septic tank and rainwater harvesting tank.
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Binning Green Regs Will Not Get Britain Building
Reducing ‘red tape’ like the Code for Sustainable Homes will impede opportunities to make new homes greener, says Mark Brinkley.
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Permitted Development
Stephen Green's views on the recent changes to permitted development rules.
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Going Nowhere, Slowly: The New Permitted Development Rules
Online Editor Samuel Joy takes a close look at the newly amended permitted development rules.
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Some things to watch out for when house purchasing - CIL rant (#1 in a series)
For those reading the previous blog post and wanting know more about our CIL experience mentioned, here’s our “things to watch out for during purchasing” entry. Hopefully through sharing we can save someone time and a significant increase in gastric acid. For those that are of...