Renovations & Refurbishments in Burton Latimer, priced in writing before anything starts.
Renovation in Burton Latimer usually means working on the compressed band of housing that went up between the 1870s and the First World War, when the town was growing fast.
Housing built quickly during an industrial boom tends to share a set of characteristics, and these do. Solid walls rather than cavities, shallow foundations by modern standards, floor and roof structures sized to a budget, and a century and a half of alterations made by people working to a budget of their own. It is not unusual to open a wall and find an opening formed with no adequate lintel, or a chimney breast removed on the ground floor with the stack above sitting on very little.
Movement is worth understanding rather than shrugging at, particularly in a town where some ground has been worked. Cracking in an older Burton Latimer house may be nothing more than a century of ordinary settlement, and usually is. Occasionally it is worth understanding properly before money goes on finishes that will crack again. We will tell you honestly which we think it is, and when the answer is that you need somebody more specialised than us, we will say that too rather than guessing on your behalf.
Solid walls bring the familiar insulation conversation, where almost every improvement has a moisture consequence if it is done without thought.
Structural alterations are inspected under the Building Regulations and we arrange and meet those inspections through to sign off. More 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 North Northamptonshire 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 Burton Latimer street to the next.
A full strip out generates more waste than any other job, and on most Burton Latimer plots the skip stands on your own drive, which removes both the licence and the fee.
Asbestos is worth naming on anything built or refitted between the 1950s and the early 1980s, most often in textured ceiling coatings and cement sheet in garages and outbuildings. We do not disturb suspect material, we get it identified, and removal is a licensed job.
Where we find an opening that was formed without proper support we will show you rather than describe it, and price the correction separately so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Part of our wider building work in Burton Latimer.
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.
