The Straight

Can I attach one of your garden studios to my house? That's a no, I'm afraid. Yeah.

Uh it doesn't comply with present building regulations to a house and the foundations and all the other things that that you would require, the height, the floor, that everything about it isn't compatible with uh I mean, I know people are building conservatories in that style, but it's not something we do and it's not something we're looking into. But we have installed studios extremely close. Yes, to houses.

So So they've got a walkway through and they've built a canopy between the two. So have they done that because their house door, if they're coming from the house into the studio, they would open the door inwards? Yes, so they open the door.

Step through, open the door inwards to the studio and Yeah. It's just a little step step through. Step through.

Yeah, and they've built a little bridge across, so they're just walking through. But you are leaving one building and entering another separate building. That's how you're getting round it.

Yeah, and lots of people have done that, but Yeah. Yeah, you just got to be careful that you've got your levels and everything correct when you do that. course, of course, yeah.

Okay, thank you.

I'll ask the next question, Alex. How do I buy a garden studio or garden annex? Uh so, once we've presumed that if a site visit was required or not required, but we've got managed to get you a floor plan and a costing and you're happy with the costing, and it details everything that you need to do on a office, all we ask for is a £100 deposit.

We do that. We never used to ask for any deposit. We only ask for £100 because it confirms that you do want the studio.

And it gets a date in the diary. Yeah. We have turned up at houses where they Oh, I didn't realize I'd ordered it.

Uh because they never paid the £100. They They said yes. I mean, we didn't get into any arguments.

We just went back home [laughter] with the studio and and sold it to somebody else. So, we take a £100 deposit on a small office, and we take a £1,000 non-refundable uh on the annex. It's a lot of work by the time you've placed the order for the annex.

So, once you're ready to go ahead and we've put that into action. Yeah. And that's a non- So, after that deposit, there's nothing payable until until we start the job.

Yeah. Um often when we start the job, what we do is we start taking £10,000 payments because that's what most banks allow you to to pay out. In what In one day?

Yeah. So, you know, we're often finished and gone, and you haven't paid for your whole studio. So, uh Yeah, we just start taking payment.

I remember some of our studios, even our annexes got in 3 days, and the studio has got in 1 day. So, I always feel that you need to be in control You're in control and we're in control. As I say, we don't like confrontations, so we don't do it.

Yeah. You know. Okay.

Thank you.