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Building Services
Children Just Love A Playhouse
Children love a garden playhouse. It’s their own space where their creativity and imagination can be released and enjoyed.
The Playhouse Company have specialised in designing and building children’s play houses for 20 years and have extensive experience in building a large range, from a kid’s tree house, or a large garden play house, to a small Wendy house.
All of their playhouses, tree houses and play equipment are built to a very high standard; they are always supplied fully treated in the client’s choice of colours and are installed by The Playhouse Company.
Read more about : Building Services, Garden Rooms
Frustrated Homeowners Become Homebuilders
Britain’s housing market is one of the biggest casualties of the economic turmoil, plagued with falling house prices, repossessions, a collapsed house-building industry, mass redundancies and restricted mortgage lending.
In the face of such problems, self-build and renovation specialist BuildStore is reporting a huge rise in demand for its services, as the nation’s frustrated homeowners take matters into their own hands.
BuildStore has noted a significant increase in demand for self-build land and renovation properties through its land database, PlotSearch; current subscription levels to the online service are up over 140% on levels six months ago; in the last three months, since January 2009, subscription levels are up almost 50%.
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Haddonstone’s Cost Effective Improvement To Any Home
Current economic conditions in the housing market have meant that many people are looking at simple and cost effective ways to improve their homes, to give it that something extra – either to create the perfect home or make it stand out to house buyers.
An entrance is arguably the most important feature, as this is the first impression a potential buyer will have.
One of the simplest but most effective ways in which to improve an entranceway is to build a portico on the front of the house; whilst obviously providing shelter from the elements, porticos can also be used to embellish an otherwise dull and uninspiring entrance.
Read more about : Building Services, Garden Ornaments, Planters
Architect Your Home Announces April Price Promotion
The property market may have slowed during the economic downturn, but for homeowners looking to take advantage of current market conditions, competition amongst builders and VAT reductions, mean that there has never been a better time to renovate.
Now Architect Your Home, Britain’s leading provider of architectural services for homeowners, has announced that they will be running a price promotion during April, which makes starting your renovation project now, even more appealing.
The company is offering a discount of £100 off the cost of their initial kick-start visits, reducing costs to £450 for a half day and £750 for a full day visit; making expert architectural advice more accessible for homeowners.
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Grand Designs Live Show 2009 At ExCeL London.
Looking for design, innovation and inspiration for your home? Then a visit to the Grand Designs Live Show, from the 25th April to 4th May, 2009 at ExCeL London, is a must for you.
Grand Designs Live offers Six Separate Shows from Design, Interiors, Building, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Gardens and also the Grand Village and brings together over 500 exhibitors.
For example there is the Grand Interiors — a cutting-edge, contemporary interior designs collection from the world of furnishing, accessories and decoration, offering the ultimate in home design to suit all tastes.
Read more about : Building Services, DIY Advice, Shows and Events
Spruce Up Your Home for Spring With MyHammer
After all the DIY mistakes Brits made last year, we forked out over £180million on getting someone in to fix them – Households throughout the UK have on average four jobs that need doing at any one time and with the constraints of the credit crunch, Britons are realising they need to ensure their hard-earned cash is spent wisely.
Bob Swift, MyHammer’s UK Director, comments: “The Brits do like to try their hand at DIY but it seems it doesn’t always work out; MyHammer saves consumers time and money, meaning you can plan your home improvement projects according to your budget.â€
MyHammer’s top tips to find a good tradesman, for those who’d rather sit back and relax:
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Upgrade Your Eco- Credentials With Ecomerchant
As one of the UK’s largest suppliers of sustainable building materials, natural insulation is just one of many products offered by Ecomerchant, to enable us to minimise our environmental impact.
Ecomechant have once again explored the ‘eco’ possibilities and offer a fantastic range of natural insulations, at affordable prices.
Whether you are insulating a new build or renovating an existing property, installing natural insulation is an easy step, to support the development of energy efficient and eco-friendly buildings.
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The New UNEO From Bosch Is Three Tools In One
Bosch is claiming a world first with its launch of the ingenious UNEO – a cordless screwdriver, drill and rotary hammer all in one tool.
Weighing only 1.1 kilos and no bigger than an A5 sheet of paper, this compact power pack makes light work of screw-driving, hammering and drilling – even through concrete – thanks to its pneumatic hammer mechanism and lithium-ion battery.
Most DIY jobs at home usually demand several different tools plus a mains cable; a drill for drilling holes in wood or metal; a rotary hammer for fixings in hard concrete walls and a screwdriver for joining the parts together.
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Is Now The Best Time To Self-Build?
The current gloom in the property market could conversely mean better opportunities opening up for the self-builder, as more land will become available, as cash strapped developers are forced to sell off their land banks.
Coupled with the recent changes to the planning rules, making it easier to extend your home or convert your loft, there may not be a better time to self build or renovate.
So, now is a great time to visit The North of England’s Homebuilding & Renovating Show, on at the Harrogate International Centre from 7th to 9th November, to find the right products and services to convert, extend, renovate or build a house from scratch.
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Potton’s Fantastic Self Build Net-Zero Carbon Homes
The extraordinary Potton Lighthouse range offers contemporary house designs, which with a blend of green technologies, mean self builders can build a net zero carbon home with running costs of as little as £30 per year!
Lighthouse pushes the boundaries for modern house design and is the most advanced house produced for the self build market and the construction industry .
Its levels of efficiency in terms of construction method, energy use, CO2 emissions and carbon footprint, also mean that it is the first to achieve the government’s Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6, the standard to which all new homes will be designed and constructed from 2016.
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