The Out Come Over the next few posts I’ll tell you the out come of the Fire Inspectors visit to audit our Fire Risk Assessment. If your thinking of opening a guest house or are running one, I ¬†thought I’d let you know the out come of our audit as the Fire Inspector (Late fire [...]
FACT!¬†¬† If you do a quick inexpensive job on your¬†Guest House to¬†open as quick as you can and make some money, you may find your self doing the same job in the not to distant future. I don’t like admitting it, I’m baring my sole here, I just don’t want anyone to make the same [...]
Do you need a Fire Risk Assessment? On the 26th January a entered a post, http://www.cornerstonesguesthouse.com/blog/how-you-can-make-money-from-your-own-house/guest-standards-for-your-own-house/ saying. “If you’re just having one or two guests don’t be put off when I mention Planning, Building Regs and Fire Officers this will not apply to you if you’re making any alterations”. That was before I had a [...]
Back to Creating Your Guest House Sorry¬†I was side tract for a few days. If your mate’s a builder, with a few good recommendations to his name and knows what he’s doing, tell him what you want, and let him get on with it, although I would still recommended you engage an architect if the [...]
I am not a builder or a fire inspector, but I do know that those two people should know the current fire regulations.¬† The builder because it’s is job to build using all current fire regulations and the fire officer because it’s his job to lay down the law . The one man who ties [...]
What Can Happen I’ve got to tell this story, defiantly a first. Date 03.06.09.¬†¬†Place Cornerstones bed and breakfast manchester. The names of the people have been change to protect¬†the innocent. This particular week we’re fully booked with a group of¬†people over¬†from America, they’ve taken the whole place except for one room which is booked out [...]
Time to Start Work on Your Guest House I mentioned the new Fire Risk Assessments in my last post about running a guest house, just a quickie on the subject of fire regulations, with planning for change of use it’s automatic that the Building Regulations Officer gets involved and consequently Fire Regulations so I will [...]
An open air performance of Shakespeare’s Comedy by the Globe Theatre will brighten up your day, it’s fast and hilarious. Tuesday to Saturday at 7pm; Sunday 3pm. The performance lasts about two an a half hours bring your own seats or a rubber mat for your bum that could double as a large umbrella, yes [...]
Fire Risk Assessment Procedure The Cornerstones Guest House have just had our F.R.A. (Fire Risk Assessment) reviewed by our local fire officer and I though I’d let people know what to expect, the procedure used to produce your own F.R.A., where I went wrong and how it was resolved. With this in mind and because [...]
Once you have planning it’s up to you how fast you move to get the place open. You can bring in a builder get him to price for all the work you require doing, go to the bank with a business plan, and borrow x number of pounds, do all the rooms at once and [...]
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