Harrow is a straight run down the A409 and most of the work there is extensions to interwar semis. Facing brickwork, blockwork, new-build plot packages and extensions in Harrow, set out and gauged properly the first time.
Harrow is mostly interwar and postwar semis and terraces on tight plots, which means side returns and rear extensions built with limited access, brickwork matched into a weathered seventy year old elevation, and scaffold and material deliveries planned around a shared drive. In practice most of what we are asked for in Harrow is side return and rear 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 Harrow (HA1) it is mostly side return and rear extensions, loft gable work, garden walls and repointing, along with the blockwork, lintels and openings that go with all of it. Harrow is mostly interwar and postwar semis and terraces on tight plots, which means side returns and rear extensions built with limited access, brickwork matched into a weathered seventy year old elevation, and scaffold and material deliveries planned around a shared drive. Every job starts with a look at the wall and the drawings rather than a price guessed over the phone.
No. Harrow is about 6 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. Harrow is a straight run down the A409 and most of the work there is extensions to interwar semis. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find in brickwork around Harrow on the Hill and what your job is likely to need before anyone orders a brick.
It does, and mostly through access rather than the brickwork itself. Harrow is largely interwar and postwar semis and terraces on narrow plots, so the questions are where the scaffold goes, whether a mixer and a stack of bricks can get to the back, and whether the neighbour's drive is involved. The brickwork question is matching: a seventy year old elevation has weathered, so the closest new brick still reads slightly fresh for a season or two. We show you the match laid up rather than as a single brick.
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 Harrow daylight against your own wall rather than choosing from a sample in a merchant's yard.
Harrow is around 6 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.