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According to the latest issue of the Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) report, the pace of the industry's growth spurt has lessened slightly.

It's Party Conference season, so the thoughts of young men (and women and the not so young) have lightly turned to thoughts of housing.

One of the nice things about travelling across the country by train is the amount t of stuff you can see looking out of the window.

How many of us have been told all our lives that mistakes and errors are fine to make as long as you learn from them and don't keep making them.

There's no shame in using someone else's idea if it was a good one that worked. So well done Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and DECC for piggy-backing on the splendid Boiler Scrappage Scheme from 2010 to launch the London Boiler Cashback Scheme.

Well. That's a bit of a turn up. One teeny tiny little set of islands. 5th in the world in term of GDP, admittedly, 21st in terms of population and second in the medal table at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

If brown is the new black and staying in is the new going out, then Homeform is the new MFI.

A new year dawns and with it the chance to take stock of last year's performance and make plans for another year.

Until recently, the main driver for increased activity in the construction sector has been growth in the house building sector, with very little growth in other sectors. Even in the housing sector, recent poor weather and flooding has delayed new starts and blunted growth.

Let's debunk a common DIY myth. The use of 'squeezy bottle' washing up liquid in the production of mortar for laying bricks.