Rear extension
Rear extension, Basingstoke
Footings, drainage and a new rear extension, then a full internal fit-out taking the kitchen, dining and living space into one open ground floor.
Hampshire · RG21, RG22, RG23 and RG24
Builders in Basingstoke
Basingstoke grew fast and it grew in phases, so the town is really a dozen different building jobs wearing one postcode.
Building in Basingstoke
What we are usually working on here.
Big estate-built expansion from the 1960s and 70s at Popley, Brighton Hill, South Ham, Winklebury and Oakridge — trussed rafter roofs, attached or integral garages, and rear gardens with room to build.
Chineham and the northern edges from the 1980s and 90s — better insulated, but shallow foundations and cavity walls that need care when you form an opening.
Older brick and flint around Old Basing, Cliddesden and the streets behind the station, where matching existing brickwork matters more than anything else on the job.
Worth knowing
Basingstoke and Deane run a busy planning department and a lot of the town falls under standard permitted development, which means a great many jobs here never need a full application at all. Knowing which side of that line your job sits on before anyone lifts a shovel is most of the value of asking a local builder.
Basingstoke at a glance
- County
- Hampshire
- Council
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- Postcodes
- RG21, RG22, RG23 and RG24
- From our yard
- 15 minutes from our yard at Calleva Park
- Also covering
- Chineham, Old Basing, Oakley, Bramley, Sherborne St John
What we do in Basingstoke
Eight services, all of them local to you.
Builders in Basingstoke
A lot of general building work in Basingstoke is remedial before it is anything else. The estate housing from the 1960s and 70s was built quickly and to the standards of the day, so it is common to open something up and find a lintel that was never right, a cavity bridged with mortar droppings, or a roof spread that has been quietly moving for forty years. We price for what we can see and we tell you the same day if we find something we could not.
Property extensions in Basingstoke
The estate housing across Popley, Brighton Hill and South Ham was laid out with rear gardens that are long by modern standards, which is why Basingstoke is such good extension territory — there is genuinely room to build without losing the garden. The catch is the drainage. On a lot of these plots the run crosses the back of the house exactly where you want the new footing, so the first thing we do is lift a cover and find out.
Loft conversions in Basingstoke
This is where Basingstoke gets interesting. Most of the town’s 1960s and 70s housing was built with trussed rafter roofs — a web of thin timbers that fills the loft and cannot simply be cut out. It does not stop a conversion, but it does mean a proper structural design with new floor beams taking the load before a single truss is touched. Any builder quoting a Basingstoke trussed roof without mentioning that has not looked in the loft.
Garage conversions in Basingstoke
Basingstoke has integral garages by the thousand — they came as standard on much of the estate housing from the 1960s onwards — and most of them are now storing a freezer and a bike. Because they are integral rather than detached, they are already inside the thermal envelope on two or three sides, which makes them among the cheapest rooms in the town to create. The one thing to check first is whether the estate has enough on-street parking to lose a space.
Home renovations in Basingstoke
The renovation work we do in Basingstoke is largely the town’s first generation of estate housing coming round for a second full refit — the properties built in the 60s and 70s that were last done properly in the 90s. Typical scope is a rewire, a new kitchen, knocking the kitchen and dining room together, and dealing with a bathroom that has never been moved. The structures are sound; it is the services that have run out of road.
Property refurbishments in Basingstoke
Basingstoke has a deep rental market — the town centre flats, the ex-local authority stock across South Ham and Winklebury, and a lot of two and three-bed estate houses held by small landlords. Voids here are usually about speed and compliance rather than luxury: decoration, flooring, a safe consumer unit and a bathroom that will not embarrass anyone. We can be in and out inside a fortnight on that scope.
Structural alterations in Basingstoke
The single most common structural job in Basingstoke is taking out the wall between the kitchen and the dining room on an estate house — the layout that made sense in 1972 and makes none now. On these houses that wall is very often load-bearing, carrying the floor above and sometimes a bit of the roof, and the first-floor layout usually needs the steel to land somewhere specific. It is a well-trodden job and we have done a lot of them.
Brickwork in Basingstoke
Brickwork in Basingstoke is mostly a matching exercise. The estates were built in large phases with bricks bought in bulk, which means a whole street can share one facing brick — good news, because the type is usually identifiable and still obtainable. The bad news is that a poor match on that kind of uniform terrace is glaringly obvious. We sample against the wall in daylight before we order.
Our work
Jobs we have finished in Basingstoke.
Front extension
Front extension, Basingstoke
A front extension taking the house forward, including groundwork, a new roof structure and a full internal strip-out and rebuild.
Landscaping
Landscaping, Basingstoke
A rear garden re-levelled and rebuilt with a patio, retaining edges, lawn and a seating area that gets used all summer.
Bespoke joinery
Bespoke bar worktop
A solid timber bar worktop made and fitted to suit the room, finished on site.
Internal alterations
Open-plan kitchen and dining
A wall taken out with steel over, turning a closed kitchen and dining room into one open space.
Building in Basingstoke? Let’s talk.
15 minutes from our yard at Calleva Park, so we can usually get out to look at a job the same week you ring.
Get in touch
Building work in Basingstoke.
Tell us what you are planning and we will come out, look at the house and put a written quote together with the costs set out.
Tell us about the job
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