Martin Gaine

2 months ago | msn.com | Martin Gaine

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2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Gaine

Martin Gaine is a chartered town planner and chief executive of Just Planning. In the 1986 film The Money Pit, Tom Hanks and Shelley Long buy a house in such a state of disrepair that the stairs give way, the electrics catch fire and when they fill the bath it collapses through to the floor below. A British remake could tell the story of Ian Colvin and his wife, Corrine.

Feb 19, 2025 | self-build.co.uk | Sander Tel |Mark Stevenson |Martin Gaine

Even for seasoned professionals, completing a self build project is always a learning opportunity.

Feb 18, 2025 | msn.com | Martin Gaine

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Feb 18, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Gaine

Martin Gaine 18 February 2025 2:00pm GMT When Steve Farmiloe needed more space in his Edwardian end-of-terrace house in the Withington suburb of Manchester, he looked upwards. There wasn’t much room to extend at the back into the garden, but there was a huge volume of wasted space in the loft. “Moving house is too difficult these days, and I already had a small loft room, but it was small, dark, freezing cold, and the roof was leaking,” he says. “Since it needed renovating anyway, I decided...