Step 1 · Survey
On site, with the constraints.
What we do, in detail
Four kinds of work, all starting with a written quote and your cancellation notice.
Program 01 · Permission before ordering
Building projects
We do not start work needing planning permission before it is granted, and Building Regulations notification is handled as part of the job with the completion certificate obtained at the end. That certificate is what a buyer's conveyancer asks for years later, and the moment it is missed is rarely the moment it hurts.
Step 2 · Quote and notice
Exclusions and your cancellation right.
Step 3 · Build
Notified and inspected as required.
Step 4 · Certificate
Obtained and handed to you.
Step 1 · Classify
Which work is notifiable.
Step 2 · Right person
Registered scheme or Gas Safe.
Step 3 · Install
To the regulations in force.
Step 4 · Certify
Certificate handed over.
Program 02 · Registered where required
Installation work
Replacement windows need either building control inspection or a competent person scheme certificate, and homeowners usually discover the gap when selling. Notifiable electrical work goes through a Part P registered person with the certificate provided, and all gas work to a Gas Safe engineer. We coordinate rather than improvise around any of it.
Program 03 · Substrate first
Completion and finishing
Finishes fail from underneath. A screed still drying, a wall with unresolved damp, a substrate that is not flat enough: cover any of those and the finish fails within a year regardless of the quality of the work on top. We measure and wait where waiting is the answer, which is unglamorous and occasionally unpopular.
Step 1 · Check beneath
Moisture and flatness measured.
Step 2 · Resolve
The cause, before covering it.
Step 3 · Finish
To the agreed standard.
Step 4 · Snag
Walked round before handover.
Step 1 · Building age
Pre-2000 means a survey.
Step 2 · Scope
What is ours and what is not.
Step 3 · Refer
Licensed work to licensed firms.
Step 4 · Complete
With the paperwork.
Program 04 · And what we refer
Specialist work
In anything built before 2000 we get an asbestos survey before intrusive work, stop if something suspect appears, and send licensable removal to an HSE-licensed contractor. Gas goes to Gas Safe engineers. The list of what we refer is on the quote, because a contractor who says yes to everything is telling you something.
Got a project to price?
A free site visit and a written quotation, with your cancellation rights set out.