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Building Ideas - With Mark Millar

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Mark Millar has joined Fix Radio to host our brand new property development show!

Every week the show offers practical advice, shares real-life experiences and introduces ‘out of the box’ thinking, designed to help working tradespeople develop their property.

Mark and his panel of guests take a look at all the big questions, including financing, project management, finding the right partners, planning permission and embracing new building techniques and technologies.
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Mark Millar is joined by two guests to discuss how day to day life changed as they took on a self build project. Lucy Hutchings, who runs shegrowsveg.com - talks about how her self build experience was an emotional rollercoaster with a successful outcome. Claire Faulkner - @thatcotswoldclaire on Instagram, who is 4 years into her ongoing self build experience, talks about the life upheaval and change of living circumstance as well as the continued stress throughout the different phases of the project.
Mark Millar is joined by two guests who have experience sourcing materials for self building projects in a sustainable fashion. Fix Radio & TV legend, Clive Holland talks about his discoveries of what you could reclaim, save and use from dumpsters after doing research for a TV show 'Your Extension is Rubbish' and Mark is also joined by Kenton Jones, who sources fantastic sustainable timber and has worked with Mark for TV previously
Mark Millar has invited Tim Phillips, a Senior Quantity Surveyor, with more than 30 years experience in the building trade to join him and give you a complete guide full of invaluable advice about how to make purchases and plan orders of materials for your domestic self build projects
Mark Millar is joined by the homeowner of a modernised and converted bungalow and an architect who has had experience renovating bungalows to discuss how we can take a modern approach to an anachronistic design
Mark Millar is joined by Harvey Fremlin from The National Self Build & Renovation Centre to give an overview on how to acquire land
Mark Millar is joined by Ben Martin from The Carlton Tavern to tell the incredible story behind returning the pub to it's glory after the listed building was illegally demolished a number of years ago
Mark Millar has invited Guy Abbott, Technical Director at Morguard Building Surveyors to give you some sound advice on what to consider, investigate, what to ask and research with regards to buying a domestic property to renovate or flip for profit
Mark Millar is joined by Helen George so that she can explain how she planned their build to finish on time, on budget and without any mishaps along the way
Mark Millar invites guests to join him and discuss the pros and cons of bringing in one building contractor to oversee the whole project versus project managing the build yourself and bringing in an array of subcontractors
Mark Millar is joined by Morwenna Slade, Head of Climate Adaptation at Historic England so that Mark can ask some questions about what kind of permission is required when retrofitting in listed domestic properties as well as renovations to those properties or non listed properties in conservation areas. Mark also asks Morwenna about her role at Historic England and the challenge she faces in trying to proetet the history of listed buildings while simultaniously protecting the environment
Retrofitting

Retrofitting

2024-03-1727:57

Mark Millar is joined Brian Berry CEO of the FMB to talk about retrofitting as a whole. Retrofitting advocate from the world of Plumbing & Heating, Allen Hart joins the show to talk about what would be some good practices when it comes to retrofitting and Luke Nicholls from Renew East Ltd gives us a case study of fitting a heat pump for a self build project
Mark Millar is joined by three guests from his first two shows, six months on from when they first joined him, to find out how their self build projects are unfolding
Mark Millar is joined by Ranjan Bhattacharya, real-estate entrepeneur, property mentor and media personality to give an overview on his approach to property development and the current market
Nicky (@house_at_ballycoose on Instagram) shares her experience self building in Northern Ireland which involved taking the plans and ripping them up and re-designing to achieve her dream build
Mark Millar looks at the approach to domestic building in Northern Ireland with Paddy O'Hart from selfbuildconsultancy.co.uk and James Hagan from Hagan Homes
Stuart Wyeth returns to talk about his success building an impressive property portfolio. Stuart talks about how networking, environmental concerns, understanding the demands of the market and determination has been key to his success and offers some insight and advice for those hoping to do the same
Stuart Wyeth from Sky Lofts and SW Homes & Developments joins Mark Millar to discuss loft conversions and explains the value they can add to an existing property or new build
Luke Millard from Bristol Garden Rooms Ltd (BGR) joins Mark Millar to share his knoweledge and experiences creating incredible garden rooms. Mark and Luke talk about what is possible, planning permission, ideas for different kinds of materials used for cladding and more
Mark Millar has a look at the different materials and approaches you can take to creating some beautiful and spacious worktop counter spaces in your home or self build project. Liam Colgon from Mayfair Worktops talks about the options surrounding quartz, granit and ceramic bespoke worktops. Toby Hurst from Concrete Carrot joins Mark to explore what is possible with concrete
Mark Millar is joined by two of his favourite Interior Designers that he's had the pleasure of working with on TV, Gabrielle Blackman & Barbara Ramani. Mark has invited Gabrielle & Barbara into the studio to talk about how we can bring life and light into our self builds or existing homes
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