We are a small family run business.

By way of experience Phil, our main contributor is an experienced practical engineer. He learnt his trade initially through an engineering apprenticeship with British Telecommunications and subsequently continued developing his diy skills by buying those houses you see advertised as “suit keen diy person” He is currently on our ~~third~~ fourth such house.

We’ve been around a while, checkout the internet archive and we’re there way back in 2004 although we have been around longer than this (or at least it feels like it!)

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