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Hero lines
- Extensions, finished when we said
- Foundations first, kitchens later
- One team, one site, start to finish
Twenty-two years of extensions, loft conversions and structural work — with a start date we hold and a site you can walk through.
You get a fixed price after a survey — not a rate per square metre from someone who has never seen your garden.
Scaffolding up on the Monday, weathertight in eleven weeks, snagging list cleared before the final 5% falls due.
Team bios
Petra Sandoval-Reid — Director
Petra prices every job and signs off every variation, which is why there are so few of them. She trained as a quantity surveyor before moving to the contracting side and can tell you what a cubic metre of concrete costs without looking. Terrible at taking holidays.
Sam Okonjo — Site manager
Sam has been building since he was seventeen and running sites since twenty-nine. He is the one who rings on a Friday with a photograph of the week's progress, whether or not anything photogenic happened. Keeps an absurdly tidy site.
Lewis Harradine — Carpenter & foreman
Lewis handles first fix, roof carpentry and most of the swearing at deliveries. Twenty-six years in, he still cuts his own birdsmouths rather than ordering trusses when a roof gets complicated. Restores an old motorbike, slowly, over the winter.
Quotes
“They found a drain nobody knew about on day three. Instead of a variation order they said “this one is ours to solve” and re-routed it. It cost us nothing and put us back four days.”
Gwen Tallantyre, Rear extension, 26 m²
“£68,400 quoted, £69,100 final — and the difference was a floor finish we upgraded ourselves halfway through. After what friends had told us about builders, we could hardly believe it!”
Hamid Rostami, Loft conversion
“The site was swept every evening and the skip never once blocked the road. Our neighbours said so unprompted, which tells you more than anything I could write here.”
Bethan Croxley, Two-storey side extension
FAQ answers
Do we need planning approval?
Often not — a great many rear extensions fall under permitted development, depending on depth, height and whether the house has been extended before. We tell you at the first visit which route yours takes, and we handle the drawings and the building control submissions either way.
How much does an extension cost?
Sensibly built, expect £2,200 to £3,000 per square metre for single storey, before kitchens and flooring. A 25 m² kitchen extension therefore lands between £55,000 and £75,000. We will not put a figure on it before we have stood in your garden.
Can we stay in the house during the work?
For an extension, usually yes: the existing wall stays up until the new structure is weathertight, normally around week seven. For a full renovation, no. We would rather say that now than have you living in dust for five months.
What guarantee do we get?
Ten years on the structure through an insurance-backed warranty, and two years on everything else we installed. We also come back at the twelve-month mark to check where new plaster meets old, because that is where hairline cracks show up.
Closing lines
If you have drawings, bring them. If you have nothing but a rough idea and a budget, that is fine too — half our clients start exactly there, and the first visit costs nothing at all.
We book roughly five months ahead, so an August start is decided in March. Ring the office 7am–5pm, or leave a message and Petra will call you back the same evening.
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