Build programmes

Projects.

Bigger than a single course. Each project is a complete build programme: multiple courses, in the right order, covering everything you need to get from nothing to done.

Home BuildingIntermediate·8–12 weekends

Build a Conservatory

From bare patio to glazed extension.

5phases

A complete build programme: groundworks, brickwork, roofing, services, and finishing. Five courses that take you from planning permission to a room you can actually use.

Phase 1Phase 2Phase 3Phase 4Phase 5

3 of 7 courses live · more coming soon

ElectricalIntermediate·2–3 weekends

Rewire a Room

Safe, legal, and done properly.

3phases

Three courses covering electrical theory, safe isolation, and practical wiring: sockets, lighting, and the Part P notification process.

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0 of 3 courses live · more coming soon

PlumbingAdvanced·4–6 weekends

Fit a Bathroom

Strip it back. Put it right.

4phases

Four courses covering everything needed to strip a bathroom to the studs and fit it properly: plumbing, tiling, waterproofing, and the finishing details that make the difference.

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0 of 4 courses live · more coming soon

Personal FinanceBeginner·12–24 months

Path to Financial Independence

From broke to free. For real this time.

7phases

Seven courses from assessing where you are now to building genuine long-term wealth. Written for people who weren't taught this at school, which is most of us.

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WorkshopIntermediate·4–8 weekends

Build and Equip the Perfect Shed

From bare patch of garden to proper workshop.

6phases

A complete build programme: site prep and a solid concrete base, erecting the structure, weatherproofing, running power, insulating and lining, then fitting out a workshop that actually works. Six phases that take you from empty lawn to a place where things get made.

Phase 1Phase 2Phase 3Phase 4Phase 5Phase 6

3 of 10 courses live · more coming soon

HandymanBeginner·6–10 weekends

Become a Handyman

The jobs that used to cost a call-out fee.

6phases

Six courses covering everything a competent handyman needs: walls, floors, carpentry, repairs, and basic services. The skills that used to cost £60 an hour.

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3 of 8 courses live · more coming soon

ElectricalIntermediate·6–10 weekends

Become an Electrician

Safe, legal, and signed off properly.

5phases

Five courses from electrical theory to Part P certification: how UK ring circuits work, wiring sockets and lighting, consumer units, outdoor cable, and how to test and sign off your own work.

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0 of 5 courses live · more coming soon

PlumbingIntermediate·6–10 weekends

Become a Plumber

Pipes, fixtures, and heating, from scratch.

5phases

Five courses from system theory to bathroom fitting and central heating. The plumbing knowledge that saves hundreds in call-out fees, and the points where Gas Safe law requires a professional.

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0 of 6 courses live · more coming soon

SurvivalBeginner·1–2 weekends

Emergency Preparedness

Ready before it happens.

5phases

Five courses covering the emergencies most likely to affect a UK household: power cuts, flooding, severe weather, earthquakes, and building a kit that's ready when you actually need it.

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0 of 5 courses live · more coming soon

Home BuildingAdvanced·1–3 years

Renovate an Old Japanese House

An empty house, a timber frame, and a few years.

7phases

Japan has millions of empty houses, and some of them are beautiful. This is the whole programme: finding and buying an akiya, reading a two-hundred-year-old timber frame, making it safe in an earthquake country, and bringing back the walls, screens, roof, and garden. Slower and more legally involved than any other project on the site. Worth it.

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3 of 16 courses live · more coming soon

SurvivalAdvanced·A year or two, honestly

Off the Grid

Power, water, food, warmth. Yours.

8phases

People arrive at this subject two ways. Some want a smallholding and a solar array. Others have watched a film and wondered, idly, what they would actually do. The honest answer is that both need the same skills, because the zombies are optional and the fortnight without power is not. Thirty-one courses on water, producing your own power, growing and keeping your own food, holding heat in a cold house, and mending what breaks. Nothing here needs a bunker.

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17 of 31 courses live · more coming soon