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.
What exactly is it? Asbestos is a natural, fibrous mineral that was generally used as a building material in the UK between the 1950s and 1980s. It was mined in the far-east, Africa and South America before the fibres were woven into fabrics or mixed into cement. Asbestos was used because it is strong, sound absorbent and fireproof, thus making it an attractive material for construction ...
What exactly is it? Asbestos is a natural, fibrous mineral that was generally used as a building material in the UK ...
The increasingly dire chances for first time buyers to get on the property ladder in London are well documented in the ...
With London being London, seemingly any space that can be developed is being developed. The more typical schemes are loft ...
The purpose of this post is not to explain the Act but rather to examine how the Act can influence the design of some ...
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 insurance claims. Today, we'll move on to look at exactly what subsidence is and some of the contributory factors. What is ‘Subsidence in Clay Soils? In geological terms clay is a relatively modern deposit and usually overlies much older rock. In London and the South East ...
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 ...
With space in London at a premium and house prices seemingly always rising, extending your property is seen as an attractive ...
We looked at typical defects to chimney stacks on the blog a few years ago so today I wanted to cover a related topic – ...