Chorleywood plots often slope, so retaining walls and stepped footings come up there more than elsewhere. Facing brickwork, blockwork, new-build plot packages and extensions in Chorleywood, set out and gauged properly the first time.
Chorleywood is a village core with a conservation area around it and newer housing beyond, so facing brick, bond and joint finish are frequently conditioned rather than chosen, and the work is judged on how little the new brickwork announces itself. In practice most of what we are asked for in Chorleywood is extensions, with everything else on the list available alongside it.
Full plots taken from footings through to wall plate: substructure, cavity walls, party walls, openings, lintels and...
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Facing brickwork is the part of the building everybody looks at for the next hundred years, so it gets set out from the...
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The inner leaf, the party walls and the internal partitions decide whether everything after us fits. Blockwork that is...
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Single storey, double storey, side returns and wrap-arounds, taken from the footings up to a weathertight shell. For...
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Everything above ground inherits whatever happens below it. Substructure work covers trench fill and strip footings...
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Not everything is a plot or an extension. Garages, garden and boundary walls, retaining walls, piers and gate posts...
Read moreAcross Chorleywood (WD3) it is mostly extensions, one-off builds, garden and retaining walls on sloping plots, along with the blockwork, lintels and openings that go with all of it. Chorleywood is a village core with a conservation area around it and newer housing beyond, so facing brick, bond and joint finish are frequently conditioned rather than chosen, and the work is judged on how little the new brickwork announces itself. Every job starts with a look at the wall and the drawings rather than a price guessed over the phone.
No. Chorleywood is about 5 miles from the Watford base, well inside the daily patch, so travel is in the price and a look at the job is normally a couple of days away.
Yes. Chorleywood plots often slope, so retaining walls and stepped footings come up there more than elsewhere. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find in brickwork around Common and what your job is likely to need before anyone orders a brick.
It does, and often formally. Parts of Chorleywood sit inside a conservation area, which means the facing brick, the bond and sometimes the joint finish can be conditioned on the approval rather than left to preference. That is not a problem, but it does mean the specification is worth reading before anyone orders bricks. Outside the conservation boundary the newer housing is straightforward extension and garden wall work with no such constraint.
Usually. Matching means three things: the brick, the bond and the mortar, and the mortar is the one most people forget. We judge the mortar dry rather than wet, because it changes colour as it cures, and we lay the closest brick options up on site so you can see them in Chorleywood daylight against your own wall rather than choosing from a sample in a merchant's yard.
Chorleywood is around 5 miles from the Watford base, so getting out to look and price is quick. Actually starting depends on what is already in the diary, and we would rather give you a real date than a hopeful one. Ring and we will tell you where the next honest slot is.
Send the drawings or a few photos over and we will price it up.