General building · Winchester
Builders in Winchester
Groundworks, footings, walls, roofs and everything that has to happen in the right order in between.
Builders in Winchester
What the job usually looks like here.
General building in Winchester almost always starts with a conversation about consent. On a solid-walled Victorian terrace in Fulflood you are dealing with lime mortar, no cavity and a party wall on both sides; in a conservation area you are also dealing with what the council will accept on the elevation. We do the drawings and the application first, properly, because starting work on a Winchester property and finding out afterwards is an expensive way to learn.
General building in Winchester runs on a longer timeline than the same job in Basingstoke, and that is worth budgeting for at the outset. A conservation area application takes eight weeks or more, listed building consent longer, and materials that have to be matched — handmade brick, lime mortar, specific roof tile — are ordered rather than picked up. We front-load all of that so the site work itself runs at normal speed once it starts.
What we cover
- Groundworks, footings and drainage
- Blockwork, brickwork and cavity work
- Roof structures, felt, batten and tile
- First and second fix carpentry
- Plastering, screeding and floor build-ups
- Building Control liaison from start to sign-off
Covering
Winchester (SO22 and SO23) and Kings Worthy, Littleton, Twyford, Compton, Badger Farm, Weeke.
30 minutes down the A34 and M3.
More on building in Winchester
The housing stock, the council, the postcodes we cover and the villages around Winchester.
Builders in Winchester — get a price.
Ring us or send a few lines about the job and we will come out and look at it. 30 minutes down the A34 and M3.
How much longer does a Winchester job take because of the planning?
The building work takes the same time. It is the front end that is longer — allow eight to twelve weeks for a conservation area decision, and longer again for listed building consent. We do the drawings and submit while you are still deciding on finishes, so the two run in parallel rather than end to end.
Have you worked on period property in Winchester before?
Yes, and it is a different discipline from building on a modern house — lime rather than cement, matched materials, and consent before anything is touched. If your property is listed or in a conservation area we will tell you at the first visit what that adds in time and cost.
Get in touch
Builders in Winchester.
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.