"Their attention to detail and the resolution of any issues on site are exemplary."
We have worked on an extensive range of building and renovation projects in and around the areas of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
With over 45 years of experience we offer a professional skilled service, which allows us to produce work of the very highest of standards.
Our portfolio of photographs shows just some of the many projects we have worked on over recent years.
The complete internal refurbishment of this listed 3 storey house; new underfloor heating system throughout the complete ground floor; a new flat roof kitchen extension with Hartham Park Bath Stone natural stone cladding and coping stones and imperial bricks with a single ply membrane roof and a living Sedum roof and flat electric opening rooflight; fully glazed Fineline corner opening aluminium sliding doors onto a limestone terrace running from the new triple garage building with electric rundum meir around the corner garage doors and 1 bedroom annex above and resin drive courtyard; new pool building with steel frame main structure with internal entertaining space, gym, shower with zinc roof and ID Systems sliding doors on both the main elevations; fully landscaped gardens and new swimming pool with terrace area; loft conversion to the main house creating a games room.
Please click on the images to enlarge
New build timber frame 3 bedroom and 3 bathroom houses over 3 storeys with Howdens fitted kitchens. Externally clad with brickwork and Cedral boarding and a natural slate roof with Velux rooflights to the 2nd floor bedroom. Marsh Industries sewage treatment system and underfloor heating to the ground floor with air source heat pump system for the heating and hot water heating system.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Complete refurbishment and re-configuration of this cottage; 3 new bathrooms Nu-Heat overlay underfloor heating to the complete ground floor; vaulting of existing ground floor kitchen and extending with a flat roof. Contemporary extension with Maxlight sliding doors on 2 elevations out to the garden to create a family space with a flat roof electric rooflight. New kitchen and utility room with Quartz work surfaces; new handmade wardrobes, entrance hall furniture.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Demolish existing conservatory and construct a new Garden Room extension with lime render Ancaster hard white natural stone string course and coping, purpose made joinery to match the existing house, zinc warm roof aluminium Vision AGI opening rooflight underfloor heating to the extension and existing house at ground floor; new hand-made kitchen, pantry, utility room and dressing room; fully tiled porcelain floor, new cut string stairs and many other architectural features in the house, milled lead cladding to the new dormers created in the existing natural slate roof.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A complete strip out and refurbishment of this 2 bedroom house with new 2 storey rear extension and side dormer addition, including under pinning the existing house; re-tiling the complete house and opening up the ground floor to create a large family kitchen space, Howdens kitchen and utility room, rear patio area and new tar spray shingle double parking bays to the front; UPVC flush casement anthracite windows and patio doors. The gable ends and the dormers clad with Cedral boarding; low level timber frame extension clad with through colour render; plastic anthracite fascias and soffit boards to create a maintenance free external envelope. Gas fired combi-boiler central heating system with 2 new bathrooms.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Demolition of part of the original house and then build a new larger 3 storey side extension with piled foundations, ground beams and suspended block and beam floor. Traditional masonry construction walls with Cedral cladding to the extension and front of the existing house and completely re-tile the existing house so the new extension and the existing house blend in together; new UPVC windows and French doors, three new bathrooms suites, handmade kitchen and utility room, 2 new bedrooms at 1st floor and loft TV room; underfloor heating to the extension with a new boiler room and tiled floor. Two sets of sliding and bi-folding aluminium patio doors leading into the garden.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Complete refurbishment with 3 extensions to this 4 bedroom 1980s built detached house. Clad the existing face brick walls with insulation and render board and render with a through colour render; new brick plinths, timber barge boards and gable ladders to add depth to the roof and move the chimney to the gable end; Kloeber bi-fold doors and remove the wall between the kitchen and dining room. New timber double glazed external joinery throughout and the extension clad with a featheredge board with a staff bead mould. Underfloor heating to the complete ground floor; 3 new bathroom suites; new kitchen and utility room; fully landscaped gardens with oak sleeper raised beds and a resin bound drive.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Completely open up the back of this existing 4 bedroom house and completely support on new steel beams and columns structural framework to allow the creation of a new kitchen, dining room and sitting/family space and create an additional 1st floor bedroom, moving the main stairs and creating a new flowing hall space with oak parquet flooring, extending slightly into the garden and installing a 7.2m long set of 8 bi-folding Kloeber aluminium doors, completely opening up the house into the garden. The zinc warm roof extends 1.0m over the extension to create a covered area with exposed rafter feet giving shading from the sun to the new extension, walls rendered with through colour render system, an overlay underfloor heating system, to the new family rooms with porcelain tiles and an Excelsior kitchen with quartz worktops.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Two handed timber frame 2 storey houses 2200 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Underfloor heating at ground floor and radiators at first floor. Calor gas central heating boiler with detached double garages with storage room above. Howdens kitchens with granite worktops. JUB through colour render system to the external walls and a plain clay tile roof with vented ridge. A mixture of sliding sash windows and casements with bi-folding doors to the RAJ green Indian stone patios. Fully landscaped gardens and gravel drives. Bio-disc package sewage treatment system for each house.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Timber frame barn with clay pan tile roof. Completely underpin the barn with new brickwork plinths and green oak plates. Solid oak stairs to first floor, 3 bathrooms, underfloor heating at ground floor and radiators at 1st floor. Calor gas boiler. Howdens fitted kitchen and utility room. Clad externally with feather edge boarding. Bio-disc package sewage treatment
Please click on the images to enlarge
Conversion of a redundant part brick, part timber frame farm building into a 3 bedroom home, on split levels on the ground floor with a mixture of solid oak and tiled floors and reclaimed softwood floors on the first floor. Clay hand-made reclaimed and new roof tiles to the main barn. Bespoke spiral oak stairs, log burner, wet room shower. Adjacent to the barn a new-build timber frame barn, clad in black featheredge board, used as an art studio with vaulted roof and exposed truss, bi-fold Kloeber doors and conservation rooflights and clay pantile roof tile.
Please click on the images to enlarge
New brick work double garage with a timber frame plant room to the rear, all on a piled foundation with ground beams and block and beam suspended floor with a 1st floor one bedroom self-contained annex. Clay roof tiles on a hand cut roof, purpose made joinery, glazed gables to the main living area and bedroom dormer, new block pave drive, retaining walls and metal balustrade railings. Under floor heating to the annex with an engineered oak floor and a wood pellet boiler in the plant room heating the main house and annex.
Please click on the images to enlarge
An architecturally designed Garden Room on the rear of a grade 2 listed brick barn, with steel rafters clad in timber. Piled foundations with ground beams due to the close proximity of existing trees. Block and beam floor, Tudor brick walls to match the existing barn with fully glazed purpose made joinery gables at each end and a Lonsdale glazing system to the roof. Under floor heating in a screeded floor with porcelain tiles.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A 19th century brick barn in the curtilage of a Grade 2 listed Farm house, fully underpinned on a raft foundation, brickwork cleaned and repointed, a mixture of new bronze casement curved metal windows and bi-folding Douglas Fir doors and purpose made joinery, Nu-heat under floor heating at ground and 1st floor, a mixture of engineered oak and tiled ground floors, log burner, bespoke glass porches by Cantifix, clear spanning roof and front. High gloss kitchens with granite work surfaces and glass upstands, purpose made curved oak stairs with stainless steel curved handrails and glass balustrade panels, natural slate roof, fully landscaped gardens and timber frame cartlodge garages. This barn has been carefully renovated into three 1800 square foot 4 bedroom 2 bathroom luxury family homes over two floors.
Please click on the images to enlarge
4500 square feet traditionally built new build house with Westbury spiral balance sliding sash windows and orangery, re-constituted stone cills, slate roof with lead roll hips and dome roof. Underfloor heating to both ground and first floor, heated from a Nibe ground source heat pump, packaged sewage treatment works and rainwater harvester. Naturally wood handmade kitchen with granite tops, Natural Travertine tiled floors and four fully fitted bathrooms, open cut stairs with oak handrails, carved limestone fireplaces and engineered oak flooring. A separate garage block with double car parking and plant room and a home office at first floor. Electric gates and fully landscaped gardens with gravel drives and Indian Sandstone paving.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Located in the heart of the school this infill building has created a new coffee shop and snack bar facility for the school. Pad foundation to support the steel frame roof structure and a reinforced concrete slab with a Vitral glazed roof lantern supported by the steel frame which has been cladded with Haddstone re-constructed stonework to match the existing stone colonnade. Sarnafil flat roof and suspended acoustic plasterboard ceiling underfloor heating and Karadean floor finishes. Frameless glass walling with entrance doors to the principal elevation allowing an uninterrupted view of the existing stonework.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Brown field site new 2,500 square feet 2 storey timber frame house with detached garage on piled foundations with ground beams, block and beam floor, purpose made oak joinery, Naturally Wood kitchen and fitted furniture, oak stairs with glass balustrade. Fully tiled bathrooms, completely tiled ground floor with tiled skirtings, externally a mixture of render and featheredge boarding with a natural slate roof. Rainwater harvester for recycling roof water to water the garden and flush the W.C's. Heat recovery system and under floor heating to the ground floor. Fully landscaped garden with a mixture of Indian Stone and decking to the patio areas and block paving and gravel to the drive.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new purpose built timber frame fully hipped and vaulted roof to this new pool building on a raft reinforced foundation clad with feather edge board with a staff bead mould, Klober sliding / folding patio door sets, wet room shower and a kitchen facility with a new plant room with air source heating unit to heat the swimming pool.
New sand stone paving and setts from Global Stone round the existing fully re-furbished pool, and York stone retaining walls and steps with a fully landscaped garden. Surface water drainage for the pool building and patio areas and a sewage pump to connect to the existing foul drainage system.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Demolish the existing scout hut then construct a new bespoke timber frame building built off traditional foundations block and beam floor system. The outside walls are clad with Therma board and the windows and doors are aluminium powder coated to give a very modern appearance. The roof has a metal sheet profile system fixed to timber rafters. Internal walls and ceilings clad with fair faced fire proof ply to give a robust finish to suite usage.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Over the last 2 years 9 different projects have been successfully completed at the college, including extensions, conversions, holiday refurbishments and new builds providing staff and student accommodation.
Extension to the existing boarding house to provide a 24 bedroom dormitory and wash room facility sympathetically linking onto the existing building with a 2 bedroom and 1 bedroom flat at ground floor for staff accommodation.
Traditional foundations block and beam ground floor, concrete plank first floor and precast concrete stairs traditional masonry walls with facing brick, purpose made timber joinery, attic truss roof providing storage facilities and a plant room for the new building. Also new 2 storey extension to provide a new emergency escape stairs for the existing building, purpose made metal stairs, bespoke Douglas fir joinery and cladding with a lead roll roof.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new two storey glazed link between the main school building and an existing annexe, new infill extension to the annexe and full refurbishment of the existing building to provide more dormitory accommodation. Steel framework to the roof link to provide an open space for ease of circulation, a standing seam zinc cladding roof system to the new extensions and re-slate existing roofs. At first floor new bridge constructed from one building to the other with glazed balustrading and metal spiral staircase. New pedestrian block paved courtyard created to complete the project.
Please click on the images to enlarge
New atrium, common room and computer room created to this existing listed building with a one bedroom staff flat and additional student accommodation at first floor, the main building is traditional masonry with facing brick outer skin, block and beam ground floor and concrete plank first floor with truss roof and clay tiles, install flat roofs with Sarnafil warm roof system insulation cut to falls. Main atrium bespoke steel frame creating a pyramid with zinc roof covering and zinc wall panels. Purpose made Douglas fir joinery screens and underfloor heating system. New spiral staircase to replace existing, paving slab paths, brick retaining walls to overcome level differences around the building.
Please click on the images to enlarge
This new canoe storage building has been built on the flood plain of the river Stort with driven pile foundations, ground beams and reinforced concrete slab. Steel frame portal building with timber frame perlins and infill wall panels clad with cedar tongue and groove boarding to the walls and a profile metal sheet roof system. Roller shutter metal doors provide full access to the 100+ canoes store within.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A complete conversion of this Listed barn to a stunning family home. The existing oak frame carefully restored, repaired and exposed throughout the building, peg tile roof propose made oak external joinery. Completely underpinned the timber frame installing new oak sole plates. Ground source heating serving underfloor heating to both floors and hot water. Aga, log burner, oak floors, ledged & braced doors and bespoke oak stairs.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Project No 1 – Extensions and internal alteration work to extend this Listed House Mistresses accommodation with new kitchen utility room and bathroom, including diverting schools main sewer round the new extension.
Project No2 – Conversion of redundant store rooms to create two 2 bedroom self contained staff flats each with kitchen, bathroom and own heating system. Refurbishing existing crital windows and install sound and fire proofing to the existing Listed building to bring up to current Building Regulations.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Carefully extended this old village shop to provide more bedroom and living accommodation for a growing family, with various sympathetic repairs to the existing building, under pinning. Modernization to the existing heating system and a complete rewire all in an occupied house. New patio's and landscaping to the rear gardens to complete the project.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Pair of new semi detached houses on the site of a furniture shop. Constructed from brick and block cavity walls with a trussed roof and plain tiles. These three bedroom properties were built for the rental market and have been occupied since they were constructed.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A selection of new properties built for the same client in Sawbridgeworth for rental. All of brick and block construction with hand cut roofs with plain tiles.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new property built on the site of an existing house in Felsted. This property is of brick and block construction with attic trusses to create two bedrooms in the loft. Tile hanging with a cantilevered jetty to the front, underfloor heating, four bathrooms and a garden room.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A barn conversion in Bush End for a local property developer for resale. The barn was underpinned and all the external walls and the roof stripped to increase the insulation values of the property to meet building regulation requirements. Under floor heating was installed with natural stone flooring for a seamless finish.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new pair of semi-detached houses for the rental market in Sawbridgeworth on the site of an existing house. The site was challenging as it was sloping and narrow, neatly fitting between two existing houses.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new sports hall for a private school in Felsted. This building is portal steel framed building clad in face brickwork and lined with fairfaced block work. The roof is of plain tiles with electric opening roof lights and the building is heated with under floor heating linked to an air source heat pump.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Extension and renovation to a property in Felsted with purpose made joinery and piled foundations. A fully hipped roof, new lead clad dormars cut into existing roof, sunroom and linked kitchen forming a fantastic living and eating space for the whole family.
Please click on the images to enlarge
New classroom block and changing rooms for a private school in Felsted. This building consists of eight classrooms and changing facilities. The building is of brick and block construction with concrete floors and a lift between floors.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A timber framed extension with feature oak trusses, purpose made joinery and an oak staircase. Connecting into an existing thatched roof cottage with link stairs worked into the original timberframe creating a stunning family home. With a two storey timber frame garage with green oak framework and a self contained annexe at 1st floor, hand cut roof with handmade clay roof tiles.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new brick and block chalet bungalow, hand cut timber roof with a mixture of clay tiles and natural slate with a vaulted roof sunroom with structural joinery providing a key feature from the kitchen. Located in Saffron Walden in the rear garden of an existing house.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A full refurbishment and substantial extensions in cavity block work and rendered to this impressive family home, including traditional box frame sliding sash windows, lantern roof lights, natural oak floor, bespoke hand made kitchen, completed to the clients individual requirements. Including a 12 metre x 6 metre triple garage timber frame block with cedar electric doors featheredge board cladding and clay handmade re claimed roof tiles and a attic room providing substantial first floor accommodation.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Internal alterations to Takeley Church to meet with the new disabled access requirements including the construction of an access ramp, disabled toilet and tea making facilities. Including extensive purpose made oak joinery, screens and panelling to compliment this historic building.
Please click on the images to enlarge
An extension and conversion of an existing barn into office space in Takeley incorporating purpose made timber screens with laminated timber beams and natural slate roof covering.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A new timber framed house with a mixture of boarding and render to the external face, underfloor heating, rainwater harvester, extensive hard land scaping to accomadate a sloping site. Bespoke kitchen. Located in Great Dunmow with a plain tiled roof.
Please click on the images to enlarge
Taken back to their bare frame and completely reconstructed using locally sourced second-hand timber. Underfloor heating, bespoke oak staircase, fully tiled ground floor, exposed timber work throughout.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A mixture of 2 and 3 storey detached and semi detached properties on piled foundations for a local developer, built traditionally to be sold. Site originally a petrol station and was completely de-contaminated as part of the contract.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A pair of traditionally built detached houses, block and beam walls, renderred blockwork, a hand cut traditional timber roof with hipped endsand dormars. Plain day roof tiles and standard Jeldmaen joinery.
Please click on the images to enlarge
A complete re-structure of this magnificent family home on the edge of Epping Forest incorporating a new structure over the existing swimming pool with study area over. New bespoke kitchen, and remodelling the main core of the house to meet the client’s specification including an impressive library.
Please click on the images to enlarge
3,500 square foot two storey timber frame house on traditional foundations split level ground floor with underfloor heating on ground and 1st floor, solar panels for hot water and rainwater harvester providing water for the W.C flushing. Oak staircase with glass balustrade, stair treads cantilevered from wall, glazed atrium roof with close mitred hipped slate roof. Traditional box sash sliding windows, engineered oak and limestone floors.
Please click on the images to enlarge
