Everything you need to manage your budget, cashflow, contractors, timelines and decisions — so you can stay organised, make informed decisions and remain in control from your first quotation to your final payment. Built from a real 21-month, two-phase home project.
Get the Home Project Control System
Each component has a specific purpose. Together, they support you before work starts, throughout your project, and when things don’t go to plan.
The written companion to the Control Centre. Covers planning and legal (Ireland and UK), insurance, contractor management, financing when money gets tight, practical survival, lessons learned from our own renovation, and what to do when the money runs out. Built from real experience, not theory.
Every task to consider, stage by stage, for a full renovation, an extension, or both together. 18 stages from professional fees through to snagging and handover. Fillable, printable, designed to be used alongside the Control Centre so nothing is missing from your budget before you start.
A live project control system with a master dashboard, 15 individual trade tracking areas, cash flow forecasting, scope change and overrun tracking, contractor register, snag list, and planning, insurance and timeline management. Built in Microsoft Excel. Supports EUR and GBP. Designed to become the single source of truth for your entire project.
Use every time a trade, an unexpected issue, or your own decision puts you over what you planned to spend. Walks you through five options for closing the gap, checks whether you’re drawing on household cashflow, and forces a conscious decision rather than a drift.
It may not be suitable if:
I didn’t build this to sell spreadsheets. I built it because nothing I found reflected how a homeowner actually manages a renovation. Every component in this system was created during our own 21-month project, tested under real financial pressure, and refined afterwards into the system I wish I’d had from day one.
It won’t make decisions for you.
It won’t stop unexpected costs appearing.
It won’t stop timelines slipping.
What it will do is help you understand where your project stands, what has changed, and what your next decision needs to be.
Built from a real renovation.
Refined afterwards.
Designed to help you stay in control.
Get the Home Project Control System — €249
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