Extensions · 5 photographs
Rendered extensions, four ways
White, cream and blush render, brick with a rockery garden, and a rendered new build — rear elevations we have handed back to their gardens.
White render, warm light
Rendered rear extension with French doors and lantern lightThe story
The rear elevation is the one the family actually lives with, and render is its most forgiving skin — clean lines, any colour, easy to keep. These are finished rear elevations from across our jobs: each one a different house, each one handed back with its garden working again.
Four rear elevations
White render under a lantern light; cream render onto a paved terrace; a blush-pink render because the client wanted warmth; and brick with a rockery garden where render would have been the wrong answer. The common thread is the junctions — where render meets frame, where threshold meets paving — because that is where cheap work announces itself.
The rendered new build at the end is the same trade at full scale: a whole rear elevation with Juliet balconies, built from nothing.
How every job of ours runs
It starts with a survey, not a phone estimate — then a fixed, itemised written scope before any deposit is discussed. Skips, scaffolding, licences, making good and waste removal are named in it rather than discovered later.
On site you get a named project manager and online progress tracking with photographs like the ones above. You pay in arrears of work completed, and where the work is notifiable, building control inspects at stages and issues the completion certificate — the paperwork a buyer's solicitor asks for years later.
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Common questions about work like this
Do I need planning permission for extensions in London?
It depends on the property type and what is proposed. Many single-storey rear extensions and loft conversions fall under permitted development, but those rights do not apply to flats and are restricted in conservation areas or where an Article 4 direction applies. We check the planning position for your specific address before quoting, and tell you in writing which route applies.
How do you price the work?
From a site survey, written up as a fixed and itemised scope before any deposit is discussed. If something genuinely unforeseen appears once work is opened up, it is priced and agreed in writing before we continue — never added to the final invoice after the fact.
When do I pay?
In arrears of work completed. You pay for work that has been done and inspected, not for work that has been promised. This has been how the company operates since 2008.
Do you handle Party Wall notices?
Yes, where the work requires them. Under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, notifiable work on a shared wall needs 2 months written notice to the adjoining owner, while excavation near a neighbouring structure and building at the line of junction need 1 month. We serve the notices and manage the award process as part of the job.
Will I get certificates at the end?
Yes. Electrical work is tested and certificated under Part P, and building control issues a completion certificate where an application was required. You receive the handover pack — it is what a buyer's solicitor will ask for when you eventually sell.
How long will it take?
It depends entirely on scope, and we give a programme with the written quote rather than a guess on the phone. What we will not do is start a job we cannot resource, which is the usual reason a build stalls halfway through.
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