The Essential Guide for Maintenance Training in 2019
In this blog, I will be giving some advice on where to find good building maintenance training and discuss some courses I have found to be particularly useful. There are plenty…
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Social Housing Management: Dealing with Outgoing Tenants
Landlords should be fair and reasonable when a tenant is ending their tenancy. The reason this subject is particularly important to me is that I recently moved home after…
Social Housing Management: New Fire Safety Standards
In this blog I will be discussing the new fire safety standards which apply to Scotland. I will be going over the changes as well as the potential impact it will have on social…
Drone Footage: Cambusnethan Priory, North Lanarkshire
Cambusnethan Priory is located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The manor house was designed by James Gillespie Graham and was completed in 1820 on the site of a previous manor…
Product Review: Sony WH-1000XM3 ANC Headphones
I have been on the lookout for a set of headphones that will cancel out some of the annoying and distracting street noise and peripheral conversations. I wanted something that…
Social Housing Management: Managing Hazardous Trees
In this blog I will be discussing the management of trees from the context of social housing in Scotland although the general principals in this blog will be relevant to other…
Social Housing Management: Bypassed Electrical Meters
In this blog I will be discussing a recent case where we discovered an electrical pre-paid meter which had been bypassed. I will give a brief summary of the incident along with…
Product Review: Spiderbeam Fiberglass Telescopic Pole
In January 2019, the government published a paper following a detailed consultation. In this it was announced that it will soon be a legal requirement for all owners of drones…
Drone Footage: Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire
Kirby Muxloe Castle sits in the village of Kirby Muxloe in Leicestershire, England. This is the first English castle I have visited and as you will see it is so much different…
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