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.
There are a number of hoops to jump through when negotiating the purchase of a home, particularly when purchasing a new build property. To add to this burgeoning ‘to do’ list, it would seem that a worrying trend of poor quality control is developing in the new build property sector, even amongst so called ‘luxury’ branded sections of major housing developers. This ...
There are a number of hoops to jump through when negotiating the purchase of a home, particularly when purchasing a new ...
What is Condensation? There is always some moisture in the air, even if you cannot see it. If air gets cold, it cannot hold ...
What exactly is it? Asbestos is a natural, fibrous mineral that was generally used as a building material in the UK ...
When you own the freehold of a property, you have complete freedom to deal with the scope and timing of maintenance and ...
In the first 2 parts of this post we looked at history of subsidence and the influence of trees; in this final part we'll ...
In the first part of this post we looked at the history of subsidence as we know it today and how subsidence related ...
A Bit of History Anyone who's ever erected a fence in clay soil using timber posts knows that you can hammer these into the ground when the clay is soft and the posts will stand firm but when you check your fence at the end of a dry summer your previously firm posts will have worked loose because the clay soil around them has dried and shrunk. Our old terraced houses always move on a ...
A Bit of History Anyone who's ever erected a fence in clay soil using timber posts knows that you can hammer these into ...
We looked at typical defects to chimney stacks on the blog a few years ago so today I wanted to cover a related topic – ...