Project planing
Ordering in bulk without over-ordering
Buying a whole project at once wins the best price and creates two new problems: where it lives, and what happens to the surplus.
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Insights for building better
Practical guides on estimating, specifying and buying building materials — written by the people who do it, for the people who have to make the numbers work on site.
Materials guide
Roofing sheets: gauge, coating, and the bill that arrives in year six
Almost nobody's roof fails at the sheet. It fails at the fasteners, the laps and the valleys — the parts nobody compares when they are comparing quotes.
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Materials guide
Telling good cement from bad, before it goes into the mix
A bag that has taken on moisture looks exactly like one that hasn't. The difference shows up three weeks later, in a slab you cannot unpour.
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Project planing
A Materials Checklist for a Three-Bedroom Bungalow
Most budget overruns are not caused by price rises. They are caused by items nobody listed. A stage-by-stage checklist of what a typical bungalow consumes, so nothing surfaces as a surprise.
BK Admin2 min read