Apr 20, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Robin Clevett talks to David Byrne, well known for his top quality domestic outdoor/garden builds about his recent challenges bringing in the work. David explains what's been going on, Why he thinks…
When you first started talking and you mentioned about how things have changed and how the market's changed and everything else, I can remember when lockdown was here and everything was garden rooms.
Some people were lucky enough to their companies to pay to have the garden room.
And there was people who were on furlough from proper jobs, if you like, jobs that may be replaced by AI, who then set themselves up because they could go and do another job.
And because I was involved quite closely with a guy called Gil, who has the screw piles, you know, he goes around, puts the screws in garden rooms.
when he was just doing like one or two a month alongside his normal gardening work.
He went on my YouTube and the next thing you know, he is like inundated with and doing up to two jobs a day all over the southeast of England.
So it really took off for him because the timing of my video about these ground screws, if you like, boomed and coincided with everyone wanting decks and everyone wanting garden rooms.
And I, through him, he was telling me, oh, yeah, there's this garden room company set up.
He was an insurance man, for example, who And the thing is, these people come at it from a business perspective.
And because they've come from a business perspective, they don't worry about finding labor.
When you first started talking and you mentioned about how things have changed and how the market's changed and everything else, I can remember when lockdown was here and everything was garden rooms.
Some people were lucky enough to their companies to pay to have the garden room.
And there was people who were on furlough from proper jobs, if you like, jobs that may be replaced by AI, who then set themselves up because they could go and do another job.
And because I was involved quite closely with a guy called Gil, who has the screw piles, you know, he goes around, puts the screws in garden rooms.
when he was just doing like one or two a month alongside his normal gardening work.
He went on my YouTube and the next thing you know, he is like inundated with and doing up to two jobs a day all over the southeast of England.
So it really took off for him because the timing of my video about these ground screws, if you like, boomed and coincided with everyone wanting decks and everyone wanting garden rooms.
And I, through him, he was telling me, oh, yeah, there's this garden room company set up.
He was an insurance man, for example, who And the thing is, these people come at it from a business perspective.
And because they've come from a business perspective, they don't worry about finding labor.
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