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.
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series you’ll know that the renovation was split in to 2 phases; effectively dividing the barn down the middle. Since the last post was uploaded phase 1 has been largely completed so we’ve swapped sides with the builders. Even though phase 1 overran by about 5 weeks I’m still told that the work will be completed by Christmas so it feels like ...
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series you’ll know that the renovation was split in to 2 phases; effectively ...
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 surveyor spent time networking with solicitors and estate agents to generate recommendations and worked an extra half an hour each day. The valuation surveyor managed to get on to a couple of new lender panels and spent additional time organising his dairy to squeeze in ...
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 ...
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 ...