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Airborne Property Services Quality residential & commercial construction without the inflated price tag.

Extensions, lofts, renovations & shop fit-outs — professionally managed, built to last.

Part eleven. Where we have got to.Roof on, insulated, first fix going in. Five bedrooms and four bathrooms somewhere ins...
21/10/2026

Part eleven. Where we have got to.

Roof on, insulated, first fix going in. Five bedrooms and four bathrooms somewhere inside all that timber.

Not finished — and that is rather the point of doing it this way. You will see the rest of it at the same time we do, which is not how these things usually get shown.

Thanks for following it this far. There is a good deal more to come.

Part ten, and this is my favourite photograph of the whole job.That is the bath. It is sitting in a room made of timber,...
19/10/2026

Part ten, and this is my favourite photograph of the whole job.

That is the bath. It is sitting in a room made of timber, foil and daylight, with a scaffold outside the window instead of a view.

Somebody stood in a showroom and chose that — months before there was a floor to stand it on, let alone a wall to look at while you are in it. Then it sat in its box in a container through a winter.

That is what building a house mostly is. Making decisions a very long way in advance and then living with them.

18/10/2026

The clocks go back next Sunday. Here's the twenty minutes of work now that saves you money in January.

Clear your gutters. Not glamorous, but a blocked gutter sends water down the wall instead of down the pipe, and a wet wall is a cold wall.

Check the ground level against your external walls. Soil or decking piled up above the damp proof course is one of the few things that genuinely does cause rising damp. If you can't see a black strip or a line of engineering brick near the bottom of the wall, have a dig.

Look at the pointing on the weather side of the house. South-west facing walls take the worst of it down here. Crumbly mortar is cheap to sort now and expensive to ignore.

Bleed the radiators before you need them, not on the first cold morning.

And get up in the loft with a torch. Insulation that's been squashed flat by boxes, or pulled back off the eaves, isn't doing anything. Five minutes with a pair of gloves is the cheapest thing on this list.

None of that needs a builder. Which is rather the point.

Part nine. Roof on, foil up.This is one of the very few things in a house you genuinely cannot fix later. Once the plast...
17/10/2026

Part nine. Roof on, foil up.

This is one of the very few things in a house you genuinely cannot fix later. Once the plasterboard goes on, that is that for thirty years.

Insulation is the least photogenic thing we do and the one that decides what the house costs to run for the rest of its life. Nobody visiting in five years will ever see it. They will just notice the place is warm and quiet and the bills are lower than they expected.

If you are building: this is not the stage to save money on. It is the stage to spend an extra afternoon getting right.

4x3 System X (BT8340) wall bracket available for free!Strong wall mount designed for flat screens. All parts of the brac...
15/10/2026

4x3 System X (BT8340) wall bracket available for free!

Strong wall mount designed for flat screens. All parts of the bracket are in great condition ✅

Collection required in Hammersmith

13/10/2026

Part seven. The day the floor goes in.

That arm coming over the hedge is a concrete pump. It is there because the alternative is barrowing several cubic metres of wet concrete across a site by hand, and there are not enough hours or backs in the day for that.

You get one go at this. Once it is going down you cannot pause it, you cannot change your mind, and you absolutely cannot discover halfway through that something is in the wrong place. Everything underneath — pipework, insulation, membrane, levels — had to be checked and signed off before the lorry turned up.

Which is why the fortnight before a pour looks like nothing is happening. Something is. It is all checking.

11/10/2026

Part six. Twenty-four seconds, and a house appears.

This is a camera left running while the blocks went up. Bare slab at the start, rooms you can walk through by the end.

It is the stage where a build stops being an idea and starts being somewhere. Up until this point you are looking at a drawing and taking somebody's word for it. Then the walls go up and suddenly everyone can see where the kitchen is, and whether the sitting room is as big as they thought.

Aerated blocks, laid by hand, course by course. There is no clever machine for this bit — just two blokes, a line and a level, for weeks.

Watch the hedge in the background if you want to know how long it really took.

10/10/2026

Nobody asks about soundproofing until they've spent a night in a bedroom directly above the telly.

This is the Reigate loft. Underneath that floor is the lounge. Through the wall is an en suite for the room next door.

So it's 100mm Superglass between the studs, acoustic plasterboard both sides, and doubled up where it needs to be properly dead.

It's the least glamorous money you'll spend on a loft conversion, and it's the bit you notice every single night for the next twenty years.

Worth raising before the plasterboard goes on. Not after.

Part five. Delivery day.Nothing makes a site feel real like a lorry with its own crane putting a pallet exactly where yo...
09/10/2026

Part five. Delivery day.

Nothing makes a site feel real like a lorry with its own crane putting a pallet exactly where you asked for it, first time, over a hedge.

Worth knowing if you are planning a build: access decides more than people expect. Narrow lane, soft verge, low cables, a neighbour's car in the wrong spot — any of those turns a one-hour delivery into a half-day and it goes on your bill.

Somebody should be looking at your access before they price the job, not on the morning.

Part four. The first day anything actually moves.A one-and-a-half tonne digger and somebody who knows how to use it will...
07/10/2026

Part four. The first day anything actually moves.

A one-and-a-half tonne digger and somebody who knows how to use it will shift more before lunch than six of us with shovels manage in a week.

This is also the first day the job stops being paperwork and starts being a building site, which is the day it becomes real for the owners. Usually about five minutes before they start worrying.

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