News & Updates

Most people picture pond building as a spring or summer job. But here’s the thing: by the time spring arrives and you start calling around, so is everyone else, wildlife is moving into breeding season, and your pond ends up being dug in the middle of the busiest...

Farnham’s older houses have lovely bones. But the kitchen? That can be a different story. Walls that wander, floors that slope, and pipework, waste, gas and electrics added decades apart by different hands who each had their own ideas. It’s part of the character — and...

The first proper frost arrives, the rain’s been coming down for days, and suddenly there’s a puddle by the back door that wasn’t there in September. A slab dips. An edge wobbles underfoot. The joints start cracking out, or water sits in a low spot and freezes...

2 November 2026 We opened a casing in Guildford not long before writing this and found a valve seal that was weeping, slowly. The boiler sounded fine, ran fine, the house was warm. Another month of hard frost and that small weep becomes a no-heat morning and a much...

October 2026 Most bathroom jobs start the same way in your head: old tiles off, new shower in, fresh silicone, done in a fortnight. Then the first tile comes away and there it is. A pipe with no isolating valve. A wall that runs off at an angle nobody drew on a plan....

28 October 2026 Farnham and the villages round about have plenty of homes running on oil or LPG, and most of those owners have looked at a heat pump at some point, done the maths on the old £7,500 grant, and gone back to the oil tank. Fair enough, that was. But the...