Rear extension
Rear extension, Tadley
Groundwork, blockwork and matched brickwork for a rear extension in Tadley, taken from a bare garden to a weathertight shell.
Hampshire · RG26
Builders in Tadley
Tadley is on our doorstep — the yard is at Calleva Park, the other side of the Aldermaston boundary — and it is where we have been busiest this year.
Building in Tadley
What we are usually working on here.
A great deal of 1950s to 1970s housing built as the Aldermaston site grew, much of it now on its second or third round of improvement.
Older cottages and infill around Tadley Common and Baughurst.
Later estates towards Pamber Heath and Silchester with the space for a rear or side extension.
Worth knowing
Tadley sits under Basingstoke and Deane, the same authority as Basingstoke, so permitted development covers a great deal of what people want to do here and a full application is often not needed. If you are out towards Silchester it is worth knowing that the Roman town is a scheduled monument and applications in that direction can pick up an archaeological condition on the groundworks — not a problem, but it needs building into the programme. And being five minutes from the yard means we can look at a job the same week you ring.
Tadley at a glance
- County
- Hampshire
- Council
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- Postcodes
- RG26
- From our yard
- 5 minutes from the yard
- Also covering
- Baughurst, Pamber Heath, Silchester, Bramley, Kingsclere
What we do in Tadley
Eight services, all of them local to you.
Builders in Tadley
Tadley is home ground. The yard at Calleva Park is five minutes away and more of our recent work has been here than anywhere else we cover. Most of the town went up between the 1950s and the 1970s as the Aldermaston site grew, which means a place largely built in one push to the standards of the day — shallow foundations, thin cavities, and a great many houses still on their original services. We have opened up enough of them locally to know what is usually behind the plaster before we quote.
Property extensions in Tadley
Extensions are what we do most of in Tadley, and the town suits them. The post-war estate plots are generous by modern standards, with the depth for a three or four metre rear extension without swallowing the garden, and the house plans are simple enough that opening the back up genuinely transforms the ground floor. The thing to check first is the drainage — on a lot of these plots the run crosses the back of the house exactly where the new footing wants to be.
Loft conversions in Tadley
Tadley lofts split by era, and which one you have decides the price. The 1950s and 60s housing generally has a traditional cut roof with purlins — awkward to work around, but genuinely convertible and often with better head height than what came later. The 1970s stock and the newer estates towards Pamber Heath are more likely to be trussed, which needs a structural design and a new floor taking the load before any of the webbing comes out. Telling them apart is a five minute job with a tape.
Garage conversions in Tadley
A large share of Tadley housing came with a garage, and a good share of those are now storing a freezer, a mower and thirty years of boxes. Where the garage is integral it already sits inside the thermal envelope on two or three sides, which makes it among the cheapest rooms you can create in the town. The catch on the tighter closes is parking — if the garage is your only off-street space, the room may not be worth what it costs you.
Home renovations in Tadley
Tadley houses tend to have been held a long time. A lot of them were bought by the families who first moved in for the Aldermaston site and are only now changing hands, which means the property arrives either untouched since it was built or wearing a 1990s improvement that has aged badly — artex, stone cladding, a porch bolted on, replacement windows with units that blew years ago. Undoing that layer is usually the first half of the job and the half people underestimate.
Property refurbishments in Tadley
Tadley has a steady rental market, a good deal of it tied to the Aldermaston site and the businesses on Calleva Park, and much of it two and three-bed estate housing held by small landlords. Voids here are about speed and compliance rather than luxury — decoration, flooring, a safe consumer unit and a bathroom that will not put a tenant off. On that scope we can be in and out inside a fortnight, and being five minutes away we are not losing half a day to travel at either end.
Structural alterations in Tadley
Chimney breasts are the Tadley job people ask about most. The housing here was built for solid fuel and a great many properties still carry a breast through both floors and into the loft, eating a metre of every room it passes through for a flue nobody has used since the seventies. Taking one out is not a demolition job — whatever is above it has to be caught and supported, usually on gallows brackets or a beam, and it needs an engineer and building control the same as any other opening.
Brickwork in Tadley
Brickwork in Tadley is mostly a matching exercise and it is one we know well. The estates went up in large phases with brick bought in bulk, so a whole road often shares one facing type — good news, because it is usually identifiable and still made. It also means a poor match is glaring on a uniform terrace rather than lost in the variety. We sample against your wall in daylight before anything is ordered.
Our work
Jobs we have finished in Tadley.
Side extension
Side extension, Tadley
A narrow side return turned into usable floor area, with brickwork and a window matched so closely it reads as original.
Building in Tadley? Let’s talk.
5 minutes from the yard, so we can usually get out to look at a job the same week you ring.
Get in touch
Building work in Tadley.
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.
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