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Renting out a property can be an emotional and stressful experience for both the landlords and the tenants.

The health of a house depends on many things: not only the integrity of its own structure, but also the strains and stresses of our everyday lives, our neighbours’ actions, and of course the weather.

It is always important to pay attention to the details and finishes of your home, but this is particularly true during the final stages of your refurbishment or redecoration project .

When building or refurbishing a property, a plumber will usually get involved around the same time as the electrician during the first fix before the walls are put up.

It is important to spend some time at the very start of a project thinking about what sort of lighting you’d like. Your architect or interior designer will no doubt advise you on the best options – but there may be some terminology used that is not very familiar.

In this second Glossary series, we look at some of the terms used in JOINERY & CARPENTRY.

Refurbishing a home is like going to a foreign country for the first time. You need to understand the language, the habits and customs to really get to know a place.

At first glance newly built properties have all the advantages of modern construction: advanced building materials, better thermal insulation and reliable services including water, power and heating.

Commercial development and retrofitting requires a very different set of project management skills to standard residential refurbishments.

Lighting is often the key to making any small room feel large but how do you deal with a shower room no bigger than a shoebox? In this case a box measuring 3sqm by 2m tall!