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Notes on planning, budgeting and running house and garden projects, from someone doing it.

10 August 2026

How we estimate, and when we'd tell you to go elsewhere

Level Best uses AI to price building work. Here is exactly how, what we do to stop it inventing things, and the point at which you should stop reading our number and go and buy a proper one.

3 August 2026

What a cost per square metre actually tells you

Two respected sources price the same house at £1,285 and £3,000 per square metre. Neither is wrong, and the gap between them is the most useful thing on this page.

27 July 2026

Why I built Level Best

A water pipe, a VAT bill I didn't see coming, and the gap between researching a project and actually running one.

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