07542 569 403
office@akjohnbuilders.co.uk
AREAS WE COVER
Builder in Stockport
Six miles south east. Hilly, stone in places, and a wider range of housing than anywhere else on this list.
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Hills, cellars and split levels
Stockport is built on slopes, and that shows up in the houses. Split levels, cellars that are at ground level on one side, retaining walls doing more work than anybody notices, and gardens that step. For a builder that means groundworks matter here more than they do on flat ground: a rear extension on a sloping plot can need a good deal of digging, or a good deal of building up, before anything above ground starts.
It also means a rear extension and a patio are often the same project whether you planned it that way or not, because you cannot leave a metre drop outside a new set of doors.
Stone as well as brick
Parts of the borough are stone built rather than brick, which changes repair work considerably. Stone repointing is not brick repointing done on something greyer: the mortar has to suit the stone, and the wrong hard cement mix on a soft stone wall does damage that takes years to show and cannot be undone.
If your house is stone, say so when you ring. It changes what is quoted and it changes what materials turn up.
WHAT THIS AREA ASKS FOR
The work that comes up in Stockport
Groundworks and foundationsHOW WE DO IT
How a job in Stockport goes
Four steps, start to finish, so you know what happens and when.
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Tell us what you want doing
Ring or send the form with a photo. Say where in Stockport you are, because access and parking change what a job costs more than people expect.
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A visit to look at it in Stockport
We come and see the property, measure up and talk through what you want from the finished job. What the house is built of decides most of the rest.
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A written quote, itemised
What is included, what is not, and anything that could change the price. Sent to you in writing so you can compare it with anybody else's.
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The work, with one point of contact
The stages agreed before anything starts, and the same person to ring the whole way through.
THREE WAYS TO START
Talk to us about your Stockport job
Whichever is easiest. You get the same answer from all three.
Or send it in a minute
Three boxes and a photo if you have one.
PAST WORK
Recent work
Photographs of his own work.
Call us for your Stockport quote
A written quote, itemised, with no obligation.
USEFUL TO KNOW
Stockport questions
Our garden slopes away from the house. Can we still extend?
Yes, and the slope is priced as its own part of the job rather than absorbed. Whether it is cheaper to dig into the bank or build up off it depends on the ground, which is a site visit answer.
We have a cellar. Does that affect an extension?
It can, because what the existing rear wall is founded on may be the cellar wall rather than a footing. It is one of the first things looked at.
Our house is stone. Do you do stone repointing?
Yes, and the mortar mix matters more than the pointing does. A hard cement mix on soft stone traps water in the stone and damages the face. Say it is stone when you ring so the right thing is quoted.
Is Stockport within your normal patch?
Yes. Larger projects further out are worth asking about, so further out are worth asking about.
Other areas covered
GET A PRICE
Tell us about your job
Three boxes and a photo if you have one. We price it in writing, with no obligation.
Where we work from
Based in Oldham, covering Greater Manchester.
07542 569 403
office@akjohnbuilders.co.uk
Oldham, Greater Manchester