Northwood jobs are usually planned well ahead and tend to be the bigger, multi-element builds. Facing brickwork, blockwork, new-build plot packages and extensions in Northwood, set out and gauged properly the first time.
Northwood is large detached housing and one-off plots where the brickwork is part of the design rather than just structure, so soldier courses, arches, plinths, piers and feature panels turn up on the drawings and the setting out has to be right first time. In practice most of what we are asked for in Northwood is large 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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Read moreAcross Northwood (HA6) it is mostly large extensions, garages and outbuildings, feature brickwork and boundary walls, along with the blockwork, lintels and openings that go with all of it. Northwood is large detached housing and one-off plots where the brickwork is part of the design rather than just structure, so soldier courses, arches, plinths, piers and feature panels turn up on the drawings and the setting out has to be right first time. Every job starts with a look at the wall and the drawings rather than a price guessed over the phone.
No. Northwood is about 3 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. Northwood jobs are usually planned well ahead and tend to be the bigger, multi-element builds. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find in brickwork around Green Lane and what your job is likely to need before anyone orders a brick.
It does, in the sense that the brickwork is expected to be looked at. Northwood is large detached housing and one-off plots, and the drawings tend to carry real detail: soldier courses, brick-on-edge cills, arches, plinth courses, piers and feature panels. That detail only works if the elevation is set out and gauged before the first course, because a feature panel cannot be centred retrospectively. It is the sort of work worth the extra day of setting out.
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 Northwood daylight against your own wall rather than choosing from a sample in a merchant's yard.
Northwood is around 3 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.