Hatfield is at the eastern end of the regular patch and most of the work there is development rather than one-offs. Facing brickwork, blockwork, new-build plot packages and extensions in Hatfield, set out and gauged properly the first time.
Hatfield is planned postwar housing and business parks with active development land around it, so the work there is weighted towards new-build plot packages and structural blockwork on sites rather than one-off extensions. In practice most of what we are asked for in Hatfield is new-build plot packages, 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 Hatfield (AL10) it is mostly new-build plot packages, blockwork on estate and commercial sites and extensions, along with the blockwork, lintels and openings that go with all of it. Hatfield is planned postwar housing and business parks with active development land around it, so the work there is weighted towards new-build plot packages and structural blockwork on sites rather than one-off extensions. Every job starts with a look at the wall and the drawings rather than a price guessed over the phone.
No. Hatfield is roughly 10 miles out, which is still a normal run for us, so there is no travel charge on top. Larger jobs there tend to be booked as a solid run of weeks rather than fitted in around other work.
Yes. Hatfield is at the eastern end of the regular patch and most of the work there is development rather than one-offs. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find in brickwork around Galleria and what your job is likely to need before anyone orders a brick.
It does, and it makes the work more predictable. Hatfield is planned postwar housing and business parks with development land still active around it, so a lot of what we do there is plot packages and structural blockwork on sites rather than one-off extensions. The housing stock repeats, which means the layouts, the block spec and the cavity details are largely known before we arrive, and the programme is easier to hold to.
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 Hatfield daylight against your own wall rather than choosing from a sample in a merchant's yard.
Hatfield is around 10 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.