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Allowing For Contractor's Costs When Renovating
Contractor’s costs form a large proportion of the budget for any renovation project so it’s vital to keep control as the project progresses. It’s...
Allowing For Insurance Costs When Renovating
There are a number of different areas where insurance cover is worth considering for a renovation project. Apart from anything else, ordinary...
Assessing Material Costs
Assessing material costs is a vital part of any building project. If you are embarking on a major building project you might even consider getting in a specialist, a...
Avoiding Major Costs when Renovating
There’s no way any necessary cost can be avoided on a renovation project but how can you keep the big costs down? The answers are a combination of looking forward and...
Budgeting And Cost Control
An essential part of any building or renovation job is setting the budget in the first place and then controlling the costs as the project progresses, hopefully...
Cost Of Planning Permission
Planning permission is something that a lot of people are unreasonably scared of and there’s no need to be. Of course, some planners can be a little irritating and seem...
Getting a Renovation Grant
Not many people realise that there might be grants available to help with renovating a property. They aren’t easy to find out about and they are carefully screened to...
How To Avoid Surprises When Renovating
What are the three things to look for when buying the right property? Yes that’s right, everyone knows that one: “location, location location”. But...
Labour Costs
The price of people’s time is one of the major proportions of a renovation budget and explains why many people want to do a lot of the work themselves. But the nature of...
The Importance of Having a Contingency Fund When Renovating
One thing that any professional developer will tell you is that although planning is essential for success there’s nearly always something that you...
