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Recent surveys have suggested that an increasing number of us Brits are relatively unskilled in basic DIY tasks, and becoming more so. Yet many of us also say that we would like to do more if we had more confidence in our own abilities. Whilst the main customer base for …

The social and economic environment that we are living in is changing at an unprecedented rate and whilst building and construction is often considered as a traditional and conservative industry, which changes very slowly, we cannot expect it to remain immune from these changes.   The natural customer base of …

So the Government has seen sense and is going to try and do something about the rather dubious  selling new build houses – houses mind you, not flats – on a leasehold basis rather than the freehold. The Business Secretary Sajid Javid, told the BBC yesterday that the Government would be begin an eight-week or…

Once again, the streets and parks round my way are filled with the happy, joyous sound of youngsters celebrating the end of exams, and looking forward to the start of the summer holidays.

There has been – and there will continue to be – much written about the appalling tragedy of the fire at the Grenfell Tower in London. Much of it is bang on the money, some of it is way off, irrelevent and even potentially harmful.

Whilst the concept of sustainable construction is readily accepted in major projects, it is only now filtering down to the smaller building projects in the residential sector. Interest in smaller ‘eco’ buildings is growing steadily, and several websites now exist to provide builders with the information they need.

Listening to Teresa May on the steps of Downing Street the day after the General Election, it occurred to me that she could probably have given spin-doctor-extraordinaire Alastair Campbell a run for his money.

On Monday, I started to write a blog about the election but, after the events of that night, my slightly irreverent piss-take of the various manifestos seemed rather inappropriate.