Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
Thursday evening’s collapse of a section of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre in London brought in to sharp focus the need to maintain ceilings in period properties. Looking at the pictures of the Apollo’s interior there is much ornate plasterwork but being built in 1901 the base of the ceiling will undoubtedly be of lath and plaster type. The laths (approx. 32mm wide by 6mm thick) are ...
Thursday evening’s collapse of a section of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre in London brought in to sharp focus the need ...
I’ve had to prepare a couple of valuations recently for owners that wanted to either buy or sell a roof space. The most ...
Our 2 children went back to school this week and that was originally the target for phase 1 of the refurbishment to be ...
We’re now 6 weeks in to phase 1 of the work and I’d estimate that we’ve fallen a couple of weeks behind the ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so ...
3 Chartered Surveyors were set a challenge by their boss to increase fee income in the year ahead by 10%. The building ...
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that space was my bedroom until last Sunday evening! As only demolition work has happened so far I thought I’d provide a quick overview of the planning process in this post. The barn is Grade II listed so any changes, internally or externally, require listed building ...
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
Following a public consultation and weeks of political wrangling temporary changes to the Permitted Development rules came ...
In this post we will be looking at roofs. I thought I would start with a riddle, what is one of the most common types of ...
Having talked about it for many years my family and I ‘escaped to the country’ in October last year; specifically to a ...