Renovations & Refurbishments in Bedworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Renovation in Bedworth often means working on housing built for the pits, and that stock has a particular character.
The colliery terraces, Bermuda above all, were built quickly, cheaply and to a pattern in 1893. They are honest buildings and they have lasted, but they were built with solid walls rather than cavities, shallow foundations by modern standards, and floor structures sized for the loads of the day. Bermuda is also remarkably unaltered, which is the point of the area of restraint and the Article 4 direction over it. If you own one, the front elevation is where the control bites hardest, and windows are the usual flashpoint.
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 at the start than deal with mould two winters later.
Historic movement is worth a proper look on this ground rather than a shrug. Cracking in an older Bedworth house may be nothing more than a century of ordinary settlement, or it may be worth understanding before you spend money on finishes that will crack again. We will say honestly which we think it is, and when the answer is that you need somebody more specialised than us, we will say that too.
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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Bedworth street to the next.
A full strip out generates more waste than any other job. On a Bermuda or Collycroft terrace that means a skip on the carriageway under a Warwickshire County Council licence, at least five working days ahead, or a bagged removal through the hall. We agree which before the first room comes down.
One caution specific to housing of this age and origin. The colliery terraces and much of the interwar stock were altered repeatedly by people working on a budget, and it is not unusual to open a wall and find an opening formed with no adequate lintel, or a chimney breast removed downstairs with the stack above still sitting on nothing much. That is exactly the kind of thing worth finding deliberately rather than discovering when the ceiling comes down.
Part of our wider building work in Bedworth.
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.
