A Guest House in Manchester near the old villege of Plumley; just 20 mintues away from Cornerstones Guest House is the old English villege of Plumley. As you leave the Cornerstones turn right on to the Old Roman Chester Road the A56 drive just 14 miles down the road where you’ll arrive in the tranquilly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What you must remember is planning officers do not come out of their offices unless they have to, consequently they will not know the area as well as you, so they only have a limited amount of information most of the time and that’s when things can go wrong. Gather as much local information as [...]
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