Step 1 · Survey
Site, access and ground conditions.
What we build, in detail
Four types of work, with the notices served and the certificates obtained.
Program 01 · Permission before ordering
New builds
We build to the approved drawings and we do not start before planning permission is granted, because a site stopped by the council costs far more than the fortnight it saved. Where the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations apply we take on the principal contractor duties properly, including the construction phase plan and notification where the project is notifiable.
Step 2 · Notices
Party wall and Building Regs.
Step 3 · Build
Sequenced, with progress reported.
Step 4 · Certificate
Completion certificate obtained.
Step 1 · Check
Whether notice is required at all.
Step 2 · Serve
Notice to the adjoining owner.
Step 3 · Wait or appoint
Consent, or a surveyor appointed.
Step 4 · Build
Only once the procedure is complete.
Program 02 · Where party wall bites
Extensions and loft conversions
This is the work where the Party Wall Act matters most, and where it is most often ignored. Cutting into a shared wall, raising it, or excavating near next door's foundations all require notice to be served first. Done properly it is a form and a waiting period. Done late, it is a neighbour with the right to stop your build.
Program 03 · Survey before stripping
Refurbishment
In anything built before 2000 we get an asbestos survey before intrusive work starts, because artex, insulation board and old floor tiles all commonly contain it and disturbing them contaminates a home. Notifiable electrical work goes through a Part P registered person and all gas work to a Gas Safe engineer; we coordinate rather than improvise.
Step 1 · Survey
Asbestos checked pre-2000.
Step 2 · Quote
Items and exclusions written.
Step 3 · Strip and build
Specialists where reserved.
Step 4 · Certificates
Electrical and Building Regs.
Step 1 · Scope
Surveyed, with the constraints.
Step 2 · Consents
What is needed, and from whom.
Step 3 · Programme
Sequence and dependencies written.
Step 4 · Hand over
Snagged, with certificates.
Program 04 · Programme in writing
Commercial fit-out
Commercial work usually fails on sequence rather than on workmanship: trades arriving in the wrong order, or a landlord's consent that nobody chased. We write the programme down including the dependencies, and we tell you which approvals sit outside our control — licence to alter, landlord consent, Building Regulations sign-off — rather than discovering them mid-job.
Got a project to price?
A free site visit and a written quotation, with the exclusions set out.