Estimate Your Own Build Costs
An introduction to DIY estimating, for both renovations and self-builds

Find out more about conversions

Using Quantity Surveyors
How and when to use a quantity surveyor for your build project

How to cope with an extension project

Remodelling Postwar Homes
Bland mid-20th century homes could be the perfect canvas for your dream home

Remodelling Postwar Homes

Beginners' guide

A Typical Self-build Schedule

Make sure your project goes to plan

Beginner's Guide - Finance

Providing you have a regular income and a good credit history, you should have no difficulty in obtaining a loan to build your own home or to undertake a renovation or conversion project.

Where to Live Whilst Self-building

If anyone tests the theory that ‘home is where the heart is’ to the limit, it has to be self-builders. In pursuit of their dream home many live for months or even years in a caravan, mobile home, or even in the newly built garage — but does self-building inevitably mean roughing it?
A snowed under caravan is not the ideal place to live during your self-build, yet caravans and mobile homes can be suprisingly comfy. Along with renting and staying in your current home, they make up the main places people live during their self-builds, a renovation or a conversion.

Checklist for Renting a Home from Winkworth

Checklist for Renting a Home
The rental market is particularly hot at the moment; with many people either priced out of the purchase market or playing it safe whilst the economy stabilises – which means the number of people looking for quality rental property is on the up. If you’re looking to move, here’s our guide to the key considerations when choosing a new rented home.

Checklist for Renting a Home

The 10 Experts Every Project Needs: Part 3

Every single new house requires the skills of a whole team of experts. Melanie Griffiths lists the top ten people a building project can't do without, plus how to find them and what to pay. In part 3, Melanie covers planning consultants, quantity surveyors and plumbers.

10 Experts

The 10 Experts Every Project Needs: Part 2

Every single new house requires the skills of a whole team of experts. Melanie Griffiths lists the top ten people a building project can't do without, plus how to find them and what to pay. In part 2, Melanie covers solicitors, designers and structural engineers.

10 experts

The 10 Experts Every Project Needs: Part 1

Every single new house requires the skills of a whole team of experts. Melanie Griffiths lists the top ten people a building project can't do without, plus how to find them and what to pay. In part 1, Melanie covers builders, project managers and electricians.

10 experts

20 Lessons for Self-Build Success - Part Two

Claire Lloyd reveals the essential advice industry experts, the trades and fellow self-builders have to offer you.

Self-Build Success

Beginner's Guide - Running a Site

Valuable advice for those running a site. Whether you're managing the project, building on a DIY basis, using a main contractor or using a package supplier there's bound to be some handy tips for you.

Beginner's Guide - Build Costs - Introduction

A guide to build costs

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