Renovations & Refurbishments in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Renovating in Lutterworth means accepting that the elevation is not telling you the whole story. The town did well in the Georgian and Regency years and a great many buildings were refronted then, so a tidy brick or rendered face can sit in front of a timber frame that is three hundred years older.
That matters the moment you want to move a wall. A stud partition in a house of that age may be doing nothing, or it may be part of the frame and carrying the floor above. We open up and look before we commit to a layout, and we would rather revise a drawing at that stage than find out with the ceiling down.
The other recurring find is lath and plaster, usually under a later skim that has been holding it together. Once it is disturbed it rarely goes back, so we agree in advance whether we are patching or taking a room back to the studs, and we price the honest version rather than the cheap one that turns into a variation.
Chimney breasts come up constantly on these houses. Removing one is routine work, but it is not a job to do without support above and it is not a job for somebody who has not checked what is sitting on it. Structural alterations are inspected under the Building Regulations, and we arrange and meet those inspections through to sign off.
If the house is in the conservation area, changes to what the street sees are controlled more tightly than changes behind it. We check the designation first and design the outside to suit it.
There is more about how we phase this kind of work on our renovation and refurbishment page.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Harborough District Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our renovations & refurbishments page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Lutterworth street to the next.
Renovation generates more waste than any other job we do, and in the older part of Lutterworth there is often nowhere to put it. A full strip out of a burgage plot house means either a skip on the road, licensed by Leicestershire County Council through the skip company, or a bagged removal through the hall. Both work. They cost differently and they take different amounts of time, so we agree which one before we start rather than after the first room is down.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
