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A rear garden re-levelled and rebuilt with a patio, retaining edges, lawn and a seating area that gets used all summer.
Brickwork · Basingstoke
Brickwork in Basingstoke
New walls, garden walls, piers, arches and repointing — laid by people who care what the joint looks like.
Brickwork in Basingstoke
What the job usually looks like here.
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.
Because the Basingstoke estates were built in big phases, identifying the facing brick on a given street is usually straightforward and the type is often still in production. That makes a matched extension genuinely achievable here in a way it is not everywhere. The flip side is that on a uniform terrace or close, a near-miss is more obvious than a deliberate contrast would have been — so where we cannot get a true match we will say so and suggest a clean break instead of a bad blend.
What we cover
- New brick and block walls
- Garden walls, piers and retaining walls
- Matching existing brickwork on extensions
- Repointing in the correct mortar mix
- Arches, soldier courses and detailing
- Brick repairs and rebuilding after damage
Covering
Basingstoke (RG21, RG22, RG23 and RG24) and Chineham, Old Basing, Oakley, Bramley, Sherborne St John.
15 minutes from our yard at Calleva Park.
More on building in Basingstoke
The housing stock, the council, the postcodes we cover and the villages around Basingstoke.
Our work
A recent job in Basingstoke.
Brickwork in Basingstoke — get a price.
Ring us or send a few lines about the job and we will come out and look at it. 15 minutes from our yard at Calleva Park.
Can you match the brick on a Basingstoke estate house?
Usually yes. The estates used common modern facing bricks bought in bulk, most of which are still available. We take a sample off your wall, match it in daylight and show you before ordering. Where an exact match is not possible we will tell you and talk through the alternatives.
Do you build garden and retaining walls in Basingstoke?
Yes, and a good many of them, particularly on the estates where the plots step. Anything over about 600mm wants a proper footing, and anything holding back ground needs designing — a retaining wall that fails is a serious thing, not a cosmetic one.
Get in touch
Brickwork in Basingstoke.
Tell us what you are planning and we will come out, look at the property and put a written quote together with the costs set out.
Tell us about the job
Six quick fields. We answer every enquiry ourselves.