The top five bad design ideas that could ruin a house extension

Extending above a garage in the UK can be done but it comes at a cost. Is it worth it?

Will the Labour Party policies on new housing actually make it more expensive to build an extension to your home?

12 steps that will save you money on your house extension project.

I publish a detailed breakdown of how much it cost to build this house extension in 2024

Do you need an architect for a house extension?

Have you been trying to buy the ideal family home but can't seem to find the right property? Maybe you’ve decided to buy a house, and...

So you want to build a house extension in the UK, you’ve never done this before but you've heard somewhere that contractors can do...

Have you been trying to buy the ideal family home but can't seem to find the right property? Maybe you’ve decided to buy a house, and...

Like all construction projects, house extensions have become increasingly expensive over the last few years. Since Covid, inflation in...

If you own a home in the UK you might be aware of something called permitted development. It's the right to make modest alterations or...

The construction industry is one of the first places to experience inflation, we saw this coming well before most regular people in the...

If anyone tells you they can guarantee getting planning permission approved in the UK, they are either lying to you or they don’t...

I write this blog about the reality of altering and extending private homes because that’s what I do in my day job. And in my day job,...

Is your house too small. Do you need more space? Are you thinking about building an extension to solve that problem. Stop, maybe you...

In the UK and Ireland we have a special word to describe the worst kind of building contractors. Cowboys. A few years ago I helped a...