Bricklayers in Watford

Across Watford (WD17) it is mostly new-build plot packages, extensions, garden and boundary walls and repointing, along with the blockwork, lintels and openings that go with all of it. Watford runs from Victorian terraces through interwar semis to newer estate and infill housing, so one week is matching brickwork into a hundred year old elevation and the next is a plot package on a development, and the two need very different mortar, bond and setting out. Every job starts with a look at the wall and the drawings rather than a price guessed over the phone.

No. Watford is on the doorstep of the Watford base, so there is no travel charge and a first look at the job can usually be arranged within a day or two.

Yes. Watford is home ground, so most weeks start and finish inside the town. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find in brickwork around town centre and what your job is likely to need before anyone orders a brick.

It does, more than people expect. Watford has Victorian terraces, interwar semis and newer estate housing sitting within a mile of each other, and each one wants something different. An older solid wall wants a softer mortar and a matched joint, an interwar semi wants a facing brick chosen against seventy years of weathering, and a new plot wants gauge rods, tie centres and a cavity kept clean. The practical consequence is that the brick and the mortar get decided after we have seen the wall, not from a price list.

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 Watford daylight against your own wall rather than choosing from a sample in a merchant's yard.

Watford is around 1 mile 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.