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Rear house extension | Double garage | Building a garden wall | External steps tiling | Making two rooms out of one | Spiral staircase |

Rear house extension

This project involved building a rear house extension with a pitched roof and Velux windows. The pitched roof maximises space inside the extension and Velux windows provide plenty of light. In the extension is a kitchen and living/dining area. The place of former kitchen has been converted into a bathroom.


An elegant double garage

This double garage was built in the space of a former single garage (made of corrugated sheets), two sheds and a greenhouse. It was a serious project that involved levelling up four different ground levels (some concreted, some not) to the same level, removing the former corrugated sheets garage, two sheds and the greenhouse and making solid foundations for the brick-built garage.

The garage is build in building blocks, rendered to pebble dash effect and painted outside. From road access side the garage has traditional double door. From the house side it was designed to look like a summer house with large custom made windows and double door. The garage has two electric Velux windows in the pitched roof for extra light with shutters for security.


Building a garden wall

On this occasion we built a wall separating a front garden from the steet and a brick post separating this property from the neighbouring one. The challenge was to make a new wall which looks like an old one. That was achieved by building it from a brick recycled from the same wall which we demolished earlier.


External steps tiling

Here we have a job involving removing old, broken tiles from an outside stairs and re-tiling them with new tiles. Notice the tiles for external use have small rough surfaces at the edge of each step to prevent slipping. This type of job involves a lot of tile cutting and a high degree of precision. This job took 9 days to complete.


Making two rooms out of one

This project involved making two rooms out of one by diving a former lounge-through with a partition wall and reinstating original door to one of the rooms.


Spiral staircase

This project involved cutting through a ceiling above a living room and installing a spiral staircase to the room above. Some central heating pipes had to be moved in order to create the opening necessary for the staircase. The stairs were then installed around a central pole. The picture on the left shows the process of painting each step individually.


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