Its quite common over the last few years for people to want underfloor heating retro fitted to the home.
In this project we have a beam and block floor that has been infilled with polystyrene block as opposed to concrete blocks.
this poses a problem with height, as we will require 100mm of insulation, plus our 90mm […]
We will all be glad when the roof is on this one!,fitting the rsj’s were somewhat of a challenge!
now we are almost ready for the roof, and our next challenge is taking out the ground floors in preparation for the underfloor heating!
When you are looking for a builder in stoke on trent, staffordshire or cheshire, […]
with Phase one now complete and the Doctor in his new surgery, we now commence phase 2 which comprises and new entrance to the surgery and internal alterations to the waiting room area.
As you know i quite like my action and adventure ( slash danger! ) and seeing as the weather has been a little bit unconducive to paramotoring i decided to dust off the KTM 400exc and go for a bit of sightseeing in the peak district…..Following legal rights of way to motor vehicles ( but […]
Now we have carried out all of the basic damp treatment, we have a clean sheet internally to work with and we can progress with the internal 1t fixes. You can see that we are now installing a complete new central heating system, using a special calculator we measure each room, consider its heat losses […]
To move the huge steels round to the rear we lay steel rollers on the floor and slid each piece round…Due to the incredible weight of the steels we commissioned our structural engineer to design 2 joints into each piece enabling us to split the huge 8m span into more manageable bite size chunks!…even then […]
Our staffordshire, cheshire and shropshire building services don’t just extend to extensions and refurbishments!
When approached by VOSA to make safe disused inspection pits over at cold meece, we were only too happy to assist.
our building and construction services extends to landlords and commercial premises where maintenance and improvements are required.
If you have a commercial requirement […]
WOW!, yes we have installed bigger and heavier steel RSJ’s into projects but usually with the assistance of a crane!
Over at penkridge the HUGE 8 metres long 457 x 191 x 98kg/m steels are posing a challenge!
Due to access arrangements and the on-site practicalities i have instructed the structural engineer to redesign the steels incorporating […]
One of the most prevalent problems in older properties that you will encounter during a property renovation is Damp.
Damp can rear its head in many ways, rising damp, penetrating damp, and damp caused by condensation.
In this property we encountered them all!, and we treated them as follows:
Damp was found in the ground floor, properties of […]
Getting back to grass roots!…well it seems like an age since this was my primary business, carrying out around 250 back to brick renovations on terraced homes prior to selling them on with 5% deposit, legal fees, carpets etc etc all paid…..those were the days eh!
It makes a pleasant change from our core business […]
Well we have made magazine history ( see our previous blog posts ) now one of our projects has made the big screen! Well almost! ,
Our project at Lightwood is soon to be featured on britains empty homes, with filming now complete, the show should air around April, Jon and carol were delighted, and […]
Christmas saw the virtual completion of our oak framed extension on a old listed bakehouse, read all about it here
Despite the weather our intrepid team have worked hard and our extension at penkridge is moving along swiftly, the precast concrete floor beams are fitted, the infill blocks are laid, and the superstructure has commenced… Not the extensive pier that we have constructed to take the sheer weight of the RSJ’s that we will be […]
We are pleased to be involved in the extension and internal refurbishment on this modern family home.
The extension comprises a single story, a 2 storey and a garage conversion, internally we are taking up the existing floors and installing underfloor heating, we have extensive alterations to the existing floor plan including the removal of the […]
Brrrrrr, our roofing contractor braves the cold weather to fix roof tiles on our single storey extension to a doctors surgery in stoke on trent..
Thanks Lee!
