Building Ideas - with Mark Millar
Mark Millar has joined Fix Radio to host our brand new property development show!Every week the show offers practical advice, shares real-life experiences and introduces ‘out of the box’ thinking, designed to help working tradespeople develop their property.Mark and his panel of guests take a look at all the big questions, including financing, project management, finding the right partners, planning permission and embracing new building techniques and technologies.
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Episodes
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How To Create Your Dream Kitchen
Sunday, 26 November 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Jonathan Randall (https://www.jrkitchens.co.uk/) to discuss trends, options and functionality with regards to creating the pefect kitchen for your building project
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A Guide To Self Build Mortgages
Sunday, 19 November 2023
Tom McSherry from Buildstore joins Mark Millar to give you advice and information on how to approach getting a mortgage that suits your ambitions with regards to your self build project
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A Chat with An Architectural Technologist
Sunday, 12 November 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Architectural Technologist, George Barr who has just embarked on his first self build project with two clients who are husband and wife. George talks about the challenges so far, the issues with communication, regulations,...
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How To Create Your Dream Bathroom
Sunday, 5 November 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Jonny McCracken from Tileworks to give a rundown on how to approach designing your bathrooms, what is possible within the home environment, trends, accessibility and more
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Battle Of The Builds: Modular & Timber Framed Structures
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Theo Dales, from KOTO, to discuss pre-fabricated modular buildings and Simon Orrels, from Timber Frame Technologies, to discuss timber framed structures
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A Guide To Heat Pumps For Your Self Build
Sunday, 22 October 2023
Mark Millar has invited three well respected and knowledgable figures from the plumbing & heating and renewables sector to give you a complete guide on heat pumps and what you need to know when installing them on your self build projects
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Mark Millar looks at how to work with tradespeople on your self build
Sunday, 15 October 2023
Mark is joined by a decorator, carpenter, electrician and house builder so that they can give you a guide on how to work with them, when to book them and how to get the best out of each trade on your self builds
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Mark Millar looks into how to approach garden design for domestic builds
Sunday, 8 October 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Scott Baker, known as Tidybricks on YouTube to discuss how to approach your garden design when you've run out of money on a build and what to avoid doing yourself. Iain Healey from Dig It Garden explains what plants and...
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Mark Millar sets up some Interior Design problems for Barbara Ramani to solve
Sunday, 1 October 2023
Barbara Ramani, an Interior Designer who has worked on projects for BBC and Channel 5, returns for another chat with Mark Millar. On this episode, Mark sets up some scenarios you might come across on a domestic self build and asks Barbara how to...
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Mark Millar talks to Barbara Ramani about Interior Design on domestic builds
Sunday, 24 September 2023
Interior Designer, Barbara Ramani joins Mark in the studio to give a complete overview of how you can work with an Interior Designer throughout your domestic building project
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Mark Millar looks into financing domestic builds
Sunday, 17 September 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Mark Stevenson from Potton, a self build academy to give some advice on how to approach financing a domestic build. Then, Mike Pawley from Mayflower Group joins the show to explain where you can get some of this money from
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Mark Millar looks at building in Scotland
Sunday, 10 September 2023
Mark takes his first look at Scotland and how building and maintaing properties is approaches there. On this episodes Mark talks to SELECT MD Alan Wilson about building control and safety, Mark looks at how building on the Shetland Islands is...
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Mark Millar looks into van & boat life
Sunday, 3 September 2023
Mark Millar is joined by Astrid Arnold, a Carpenter that spent many years living in a converted van before building her family house to discuss how she approached that lifestyle and some of the customised features of the van. Richard Turk from Turks...
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Mark Millar talks to the Energy Saving Trust about EPC Ratings
Sunday, 27 August 2023
Abigail Ward from the Energy Saving Trust joins Mark Millar to explain EPC ratings, their importance, the reforms needed, the increase in value a good EPC rating can have for a property and how much money you can save per year by improving your...
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Mark Millar talks to three tradespeople about their projects
Sunday, 20 August 2023
Mark is joined by YouTuber & Carpenter Robin Clevett to talk about the ongoing renovations and improvements he's making to his family home which was designed by a well known architect. Influencer and Plumbing & Heating Engineer Todd Glister...
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Mark Millar talks to Jools Cardozo about her nightmare house build
Sunday, 13 August 2023
Mark met Jools and Steve on his Channel 5 show 'Build Your Dream Home in the Country' after their house build decended into chaos. Jools talks about how the project began, where it went wrong, the detail about the issues with the build and how Mark...
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