Extensions, waterproofing, finishing.

• Extensions. Adding to a building in a way the existing structure can actually carry, which is an engineering question before it is a building one.
• Waterproofing. Roofs, terraces and wet areas. Usually urgent by the time anyone calls, and usually cheaper than the damage it prevents.
• Finishing upgrades. Bringing a tired or unfinished house up to a standard you would want to live in or sell.

Renovation is the category where owners get hurt most often, because the real cost is hidden inside a structure nobody has opened yet. A quote given without knowing what is behind the wall is a guess dressed up as a price.

So we take this work selectively. Tell us what you need and we will say honestly whether it is a job for us, whether it is worth doing at all, and whether the money would go further somewhere else on the building.

Cracking, sagging, damp that keeps coming back: these are symptoms, and patching the symptom is how people spend the same money three times. If the cause looks structural we will say so and look at it properly first. That is engineering consultancy, and it is usually the cheaper end of the conversation.