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Finished room with timber joinery, a seating area and a fitted bar

Give a Spare Room One Main Purpose

A spare room often becomes the place where everything without a home ends up.

13 Oct 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Completed contemporary building renovation with wide glazed doors and a paved terrace

One Main Contractor or Separate Trades for a Renovation?

A renovation often contains several connected jobs: opening up or repairing spaces, fitting a kitchen, refitting a bathroom, completing carpentry and making good the finishes.

6 Oct 2026 · 4 min readRead more
Illustration of kitchen renovation planning with unfinished cabinets, service connections and layout drawings.

Plan the Kitchen Before You Pick the Kitchen

A kitchen showroom makes it easy to start with doors, handles and worktops.

29 Sept 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Illustration of photographing a bathroom's basin, bath and toilet as part of a refit handover check.

Before a Bathroom Refit Is Finished: A Practical Handover Check

A finished bathroom makes a strong first impression: clean lines, new fittings and surfaces finally free of tools.

22 Sept 2026 · 4 min readRead more
Glazed gable and garden doors bringing daylight into a room during finishing

A Brighter Room Starts with the View You Want to Keep

A brighter room is not always a room with the most glass. It is a room where useful daylight reaches the places you spend time, the view is worth looking at and you can still find a comfortable place to sit. Those three things are worth considering together before an extension or renovation settles into a fixed layout.

20 Sept 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Stone gable, brick opening and new roof timbers during building work

Where Old Meets New: The Details That Finish a Renovation

A renovation can have a new floor, fresh plaster and carefully chosen doors, yet still look unresolved where those finishes meet. The small junctions matter: the edge of a floor at a doorway, the end of a skirting board, or the point where a new wall joins an older one. Decide how you want those connections to look before treating each finish as a separate purchase.

20 Sept 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Five Questions to Ask Before a Multi-Trade Renovation Begins

Five Questions to Ask Before a Multi-Trade Renovation Begins

A renovation rarely stays inside one trade.

15 Sept 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Extend or Rework the House You Have? How to Choose the Better Route

Extend or Rework the House You Have? How to Choose the Better Route

Wanting more space does not automatically mean needing more floor area.

8 Sept 2026 · 5 min readRead more
Completed coastal build by Mitchell & Andrew Building Services with zinc cladding, the finish standard a proper quote commits to
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Extensions Quote Truro: What a Real Quote Must Itemise

Reading extension quotes like a professional: the stage-by-stage lines that make figures comparable, provisional sums and what they hide, the exclusions that surprise, and payment schedules that protect both sides.

9 Aug 2026 · 3 min readRead more
Blockwork walls and steel beam of a house extension under construction by Mitchell & Andrew Building Services
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Extensions Truro: What Actually Happens, Stage by Stage

A house extension from first dig to plastered walls: groundworks and footings, walls up and steel in, the weathertight milestone, first fix trades, and the decisions each stage locks in.

9 Aug 2026 · 4 min readRead more