Renovations & Refurbishments in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
Renovation in Hinckley usually means working on the town’s late Victorian layer, and that stock has a particular character because of what it was built for.
The buildings around Druid Street went up between 1887 and 1903, during the shift from hand frames in the home to powered factory production. They were built quickly, solidly and to a pattern, which is good news for predictability and less good news for insulation: solid walls rather than cavities, and floor structures sized for the loads of the day.
Solid walls are the recurring conversation. Almost every energy improvement suggested for them has a moisture consequence if it is done without thought, and internal insulation in particular moves where the dew point sits inside the wall. We would rather explain that once, before the work, than deal with mould two winters later.
Chimney breasts come up constantly on these houses. Removing one is routine work, but not without proper support above and not without checking what is bearing on it. Structural alterations are inspected under the Building Regulations, and we arrange and meet those inspections through to sign off.
Inside a conservation area the front elevation is where the control bites, particularly on windows. Behind the building line there is far more freedom. There is more about how we phase this 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 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough 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 Hinckley street to the next.
A full strip out generates more waste than any other job we do. On a tight Victorian street near the centre that means a skip on the carriageway under a Leicestershire County Council licence, or a bagged removal through the hall. Both work, they cost differently, and we agree which before the first room comes down rather than after.
Hinckley’s industrial past shows up inside the buildings as well as outside them. Where a house sits on or beside a former works, particularly around Druid Street, we open up carefully rather than assuming what is behind a lining. Later alterations to these buildings were often made quickly and cheaply, and it is not unusual to find an opening formed with no proper lintel at all, hidden behind plaster for decades. Finding that is not a disaster. Not looking for it is.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
