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A wide view of a building site in the early morning: the timber frame of a large house rises behind scaffolding, with stacked materials in front and a tower crane in the distance under a soft, even sky

Crafting excellence since 1976

Strong buildings, built on time, by people you can trust

We build and renovate homes, schools and commercial premises, managing every trade from foundations to final coat.

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Our projects

257

Projects complete

50

Years of service

60

Tradespeople employed

About our work

A family contractor known for tidy sites and buildings that hold up

  • Fixed-price contracts, no surprises
  • Our own site managers on every job
  • Ten-year structural warranty cover

Steady hands

We started as two bricklayers and a pickup. Today we employ sixty tradespeople and run a dozen sites at a time, but the founders still walk each one every week and still answer their own phones when a client calls.

Most of our work comes from people who have used us before or seen a neighbour’s house go up. We think that is because we price honestly, turn up when we say, and treat a client’s budget as carefully as we would treat our own.

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Three builders stand together on a site beside a stack of blocks and look at a drawing sheet that the one in the middle holds open
A bricklayer sets a red brick onto fresh mortar with a trowel on a rising wall
Steel scaffolding wraps the brick facade of a new house under construction, seen from below against the sky
A carpenter measures a long timber beam with a tape measure on a pair of trestles
Two workers in rubber boots smooth a freshly poured concrete slab with long floats
A row of newly finished brick houses with slate roofs, fresh turf and young trees along a new road

Survey and price

01

We visit the site, review drawings and ground conditions, and give you a detailed fixed price within two weeks.

Design and plan

02

Our team works with your architect to finalise details, order long-lead materials and agree the programme.

Build on site

03

A dedicated site manager runs the job day to day, with weekly progress reports and photographs sent to you.

Hand over keys

04

We snag every room with you, hand over manuals and warranties, and return after a year to check all is well.

A panorama of a large building site with a concrete frame rising in the centre, a tower crane, site cabins and stored materials, under a wide sky

The people behind every build we deliver

Bricklayers, carpenters, engineers and managers, most of whom trained with us and have stayed for the whole of a career.

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A site manager, a man in his forties in a white hard hat and an orange vest, stands on a building site holding a radio and smiles at the camera

Site manager

Daniel Lee

A contracts lead, a woman in her forties in a white hard hat and a yellow vest, stands at the door of a site office holding a document folder and smiles at the camera

Contracts lead

Grace Morgan

A site engineer, a man in his thirties in a hard hat and vest, looks through a surveying level mounted on a tripod on a building site

Site engineer

Michael Reed

A cost surveyor, a South Asian woman in her thirties in a hard hat and vest, holds a tablet and measures a wall opening with a laser measure

Cost surveyor

Priya Sharma

Our site managers are on first-name terms with every client. They walk you round each week, explain what comes next, and deal with problems before they become delays.

Michael Reed

Site engineer

A builder in a hard hat shows a set of plans to a couple of homeowners outside their house, where a new brick extension is being built behind them

Building services for homeowners, developers and firms

Whether it is a single extension or a block of forty apartments, we bring the same structure to the job: one contract, one price and one manager responsible for programme, quality and safety from the first day to the last.

New-build homes

One-off houses and small developments built to your architect’s plans, from ground to garden.

Refurbishments

Extensions, loft conversions and full refits of older buildings, carried out while you stay living there.