Building Ideas - With Mark Millar

Mark Millar has invited accomplished Carpenter, well known on social media and for his show on Fix Radio, Robin Clevett to join him and discuss his building ideas. Mark runs a range of domestic building options past Robin to get his thoughts on them and he also discussing the house building market and construction industry as a whole with Robin

Mark Millar is joined by Mick from MTB Construction, who has had first hand experiences working at some bad new build sites to discuss his experiences. Mark then talks with Kelly Cartwright from Core Recruiter about how they bring tradespeople onto new build sites and the issue of rogue recruiters

Dr Joe Jack Williams, Sustainability advocate and expert, who has done some great work here in the UK around sustainable building practices, joins Mark Millar for a discussion. Mark asks Joe about how we would bring sustainable practices into focus when building houses, what different materials and ideas you could use in self building. There's also discussion about sustainability, retrofitting, building methods and listed buildings

Mark Millar takes the oppertunity without any guests joining him, to answer some frequently asked questions about his thoughts on self build, experiences in the trade, the UK house building market, his media work and much more

Todd Glister, host of the Heating & Plumbing Show talks about getting into self build at the age of 26 and his second ongoing build. Andrew Smith, Chief Customer Officer at Addland - joins us to explain how the 'help to build' scheme is a great tool/starting point to finance self build projects for young people

What materials should we and shouldn’t we be using? What isn't fit for purpose and should be avoided for your self build projects? Guests include: John Cooper from New Home Quality Control, Award Winning plumbing & heating engineer - Chartered Institute member, Jimmy Hendry & Well known domestic based electrical contractor Nick Bundy

Martin Matheson joins Mark Millar to discuss how he created The Sheiling in Loch Lundie during Covid. Martin talks about the plans for the build, the building process and the end results of all of the hard work and skill put into the project

Harvey Fremlin from The National Self Build & Renovation Centre joins Mark Millar to discuss all the current self build trends, the marketplace, retrofitting, new technology and why it makes so much sense to self build if you have the means and demand quality

Mark Millar talks to Architect Julian Owen about how to get started with self building. Julian has literally written the book on the subject with his book Design and Build Your Own Home

Mark Millar is joined by The VAT Man, Andrew Jones to discuss how you should approach claiming back VAT on your self build projects and renovations. Andrew explain what is and isn't VAT exempt, Who should and shouldn't be charging you VAT, how to seperate out purchases so that you can claim VAT back on them, how to deal with HMRC after the build is complete and more