Renovations & Refurbishments in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Renovation is the trade the Little Bowden Article 4 direction bites on hardest, because the direction covers exactly the work a renovation usually starts with.
Front elevation alterations are caught. That includes replacing windows and doors, rendering or painting a frontage, altering a porch, and changing anything else the street sees. If your property is in Little Bowden, the front of the house is a planning conversation before it is a shopping decision, and finding that out after the windows have been ordered is an expensive way to learn it.
Boundary treatments are caught too, so the low wall, the railings or the gate at the front are not simply yours to replace with whatever you prefer.
The upside is that behind the building line there is far more freedom, and most of what a renovation actually delivers, better layouts, better insulation, rebuilt kitchens and bathrooms, sits behind it. We plan the work in that order deliberately: settle what is possible at the front, then get on with everything else while any application runs.
The fabric itself brings the usual older building considerations, solid walls, lime rather than cement, and opening up before committing to a layout. 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 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 Market Harborough street to the next.
We photograph the frontage and the boundary before anything is disturbed on a property in a designated area. On a street where the front is the protected element, that record answers questions later that nobody’s memory will.
A full strip out generates more waste than any other job. In the older streets that means a skip on the carriageway under a county licence, or bagged removal through the house, and we agree which before the first room comes down.
Where windows can be repaired rather than replaced we will say so, which in a conservation area is frequently both the cheaper answer over the life of the building and the one the council prefers.
Paint colour on a front elevation is worth checking rather than choosing off a card, because in a designated area the frontage is the protected element and repainting it counts as altering it.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
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.
