Tommy’s Tips: Property Rentals
I wrote recently that I would talk rentals. Rented out property can be a very…
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Tommy’s Tips: Garden Spring Cleaning
It’s that time of year again! Although it’s still grey and cold outside, the odd…
Tommy’s Tips: Maximising Property Values
A friend of mine asked me for some advice recently, which I thought pertinent to…
Tommy’s Tips: Double Glazing for Period Houses
I was recently asked, what should I do? Should I fit double glazing to my period…
Tommy’s Tips: Period Front Doors
I was recently asked by a friend of mine on what he should do to…
Tommy’s Tips: Refurbishing Boarded Doors
I was having dinner at a friend of mine’s recently purchased Victorian Terraced house, and…
Tommy’s Tips: Blocked Kitchen Sink
I had an unexpected eventful DIY predicament over the Xmas period. Xmas holidays are the…
Tommy’s Tips: Water Leaks
Where’s that water leak coming from? An all too common question I’ve heard many times…
Tommy’s Tips: Cowboy Builders
Its been a very interesting couple of months, I’m making a new series for BBC1…
Tommy’s Tips: Dry Lining Dilemma
I had a serious problem to contend with this week: I was installing a new…
Tommy’s Tips: Ceramic Tiling & Mastic
My current building project is coming to a conclusion, with that seemingly never ending list…
Tommy’s Tips: Let there be Light!
I’m sitting in my study looking out of the window on this very wet autumn…
Tommy’s Tips: Stormy Times Ahead
A recent mini-disaster for a neighbour, could quite easily have had serious repercussions for my…
Tommy’s Tips: External Decorating
The weather window for exterior decoration is closing fast, and leaving it for another year…
Tommy’s Tips: Flooring
We are approaching the end of summer, with autumn just around the corner, so I…
Tommy’s Tips: Oak Flooring
I briefly mentioned in my last blog an oak flooring project I was working on,…
Tommy’s Tips: House Conversion
For the last week I have been laying new oak flooring in a fairly recently…
Tommy’s Tips: Creating an Open Plan House
It must be the weather, otherwise why would we get these crazy ideas: to take…