General building work across Maidstone and Kent: internal alterations, load-bearing walls taken out, garden and boundary walls, brickwork repairs, concrete bases and the structural work that sits behind most renovations. This is the part of a project where doing it properly is invisible and doing it badly is expensive, so steels are sized by an engineer, walls are built off proper foundations and everything that needs building control sign-off gets it.
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Walls removed or added, openings formed, steels installed to engineer’s calculations and the rooms made good afterwards.
Garden walls, boundary walls, piers, repointing and repairs, built off proper foundations rather than straight onto the ground.
Bases for extensions, outbuildings and garden rooms, plus drainage runs and hardstanding laid to fall.
Lintels, cracked brickwork, failed openings and settlement damage investigated and put right rather than covered over.
Yes. It needs a structural engineer to size the beam and specify the padstones it bears onto, and it needs building regulations approval. We arrange the calculations, prop the structure properly while the opening is formed, install the steel to the specification and get it inspected. Taking out a load-bearing wall without those steps is one of the few genuinely dangerous shortcuts in building work.
It is not always obvious from inside the room. Walls that run at right angles to the floor joists, walls that sit above another wall on the floor below, and any wall carrying a beam or a purlin are the usual suspects, but the reliable answer comes from lifting a floorboard or looking in the loft. We check before quoting rather than guessing, because it changes the price and the programme completely.
Yes. Garden walls, retaining walls, piers and gate posts are regular work. The part that matters is underneath: a proper trench and foundation, the right mortar mix for the situation, and movement joints and coping detailed so the wall does not crack or let water in. A wall built straight onto the ground looks fine for two winters and then does not.
Usually very closely. Kent has a lot of stock brick and older soft red brick, and we will source the nearest match available and use a mortar mix and joint profile that suits the original rather than a modern grey strip pointing that stands out. On repointing we always advise matching the existing mortar strength, because a hard cement mix on a soft old brick does real damage over time.
Yes. Not everything is an extension. Forming an opening, rebuilding a chimney breast, replacing a lintel, laying a base for a garden room or repairing a section of wall are all normal jobs for us, and they get the same survey and fixed price as a bigger project.
We do, as part of the job. Structural alterations need approval and inspection at the right stages, and having that paperwork in order matters when you come to sell the house. We build to what has been approved and book the inspections rather than leaving you to chase the council.
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