Posts by Ian Mellor

Understanding Awaab’s Law and the Importance of Damp, Mould & Condensation Surveys

10 months ago

In the wake of the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, the UK introduced Awaab’s Law, a legislation designed to address the dangers of damp and mould conditions in social…

October Release 2025

11 months ago

Ian Mellor

As we enter into the season of longer nights and cosy blankets, the team began work on some exciting new projects – the first elements of the ability to import…

September Release 2025

12 months ago

Ian Mellor

This summer we’ve been beavering away on a number of internal projects that have now reached a point where we are piloting them with selected customers. The first is the…

August Release 2025

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

New Features Added a multipletext region filter to the operative report Updated the login email for new users to use the system company name instead of contractor name Increased…

July Release 2025

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

In the last few months we’ve been focusing a lot on an experimental cross platform pre-inspection app, and also a mobile browser friendly sub-contractor portal. Both these projects are approaching…

A cartoon EPIX man with cape and hat and a lasso. 16 cats sit in front of him watching.

Working through your requests. Herding Cats – part 3.

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

Welcome to part three of Ian’s articles about how we manage your requests and issues: Herding Cats – Release. There’s a whole industry wrapped around agile software development, continuous delivery,…

June Release 2025

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

New Features Added support for context sensitve help to launch from embedded forms Added the detail caption to the health and safety screen in the mobile app so engineers can…

A graphic with the title Jar of Life. It shows eight jars and questions at what point they are full. When filled with stones? Then with pebbles added? Then with sand added or finally when a mug of coffee is added.

Working through your requests. Herding Cats – part 2.

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

Here’s part two of Ian’s series explaining how we work through your requests and issues: Herding Cats – Importance. When we were a small team back in 2008, and Stephen…

May Release 2025

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

New Features Added priority to the mobile app “places to go” so engineers can self-schedule their jobs Added the MOT date, and the generated job target date to the LGSR…

April Release 2025

1 year ago

Ian Mellor

This month’s release is packed with more. More than 430 hours of development went into r20250414; more than 100 resolved issues; and even more help articles that the dev team…