Mind The Gap:: Custodial Gap.

Behind every empty building is a person, a story, and a reason nobody ever stops to ask about. Kevin Phillips spent forty years on building sites before he noticed the pattern hiding in plain sight - the shops that never reopened, the houses left standing behind drawn curtains, the pub gutted by a fire nobody was ever going to put right. Mind the Gap is not an argument. It's a collection of true stories, drawn from a working life spent inside other people's homes and other people's endings: a widow's door that wouldn't shut properly, a farmhouse lost to the banks, a phone call from a stranger with terminal cancer and one last summer left in his garden. Along the way, a builder with no letters after his name found himself in conversation with academics, industry leaders, and a president of a professional institute who, almost by accident, told him to write this book. This is what happened when he did.