Most builders show you thumbnails. We'd rather walk you through one job properly: what it cost, what changed along the way, and how the awkward bits were handled. If that's how you'd like your extension run, keep scrolling.
One crew, one job at a time, so your build never goes quiet because another site got noisy.
Kitchens opened into gardens, footings to final coat of paint. One firm accountable for the lot, including the trades we bring in.
Bedrooms and bathrooms above, structure done properly, building control walked through for you.
Rewire, replumb, replaster, reconfigure. Priced room by room so you can stage the work and the spending.
Walls out, steels in, calculations and sign-off included. The smaller jobs that change how a house lives.
A single-storey rear extension, told the way we'd want it told if it were our house. Drag the picture, then read what actually happened, money included.
A dark 1950s kitchen and a yard nobody used, opened into one room with a roof lantern and a wall of glass to the garden.
The drag shows the before and after. The timeline below shows everything in between, which is the part most builders never show you.
Drawn placeholder tiles, not photos, because this page is a concept. A real build tells this story with your photos, stage by stage.
Footings and slab. Two days lost to rain, caught back by pouring the slab on a Saturday. Agreed with the neighbours first.
Shell up. Blockwork up, steels craned in over the fence, wall plate on. Skip lorry and crane booked for the same morning so the street was only blocked once.
Watertight. Roof on, lantern in, glazing fitted before the weather turned. The build stops being weather-dependent from here.
First fix and plaster. Electrics and plumbing into the walls, plastered before Christmas, heating on over the break to dry it out slowly.
Second fix and finish. Kitchen in, floor down, decoration. Snag list of nine items, cleared inside the week.
Agreed at £68,400. Finished at £68,400, plus one variation: a second rooflight, priced in writing at £2,150 and signed off before it was built. That's the whole story. No job ends in a row when the changes are priced before the work.
Dates and figures on this concept are invented, and the imagery is a designed placeholder. The shape is the point: one real project, told start to finish with the money in it, does more than fifty thumbnails.
Badges calm nobody on their own. Here's what each one commits us to, and what the insurance actually covers while your house has no back wall.
Vetted accounts, inspected work and a dispute service you can escalate to if we ever fall out. Checkable on the FMB register.
The government-endorsed scheme. It exists so you don't have to take our word for anything, which suits us fine.
£5m public liability, employer's liability, and contract works cover, so the build is insured while your house has no back wall, not just once it's finished.
A plain-English homeowner contract with a stage-payment schedule. You pay for work that's done, never work that's promised.
Badge artwork on this concept is an illustrative placeholder. A real build shows the firm's actual memberships with registration numbers, linked so a customer can check them in seconds.
We ask the awkward question up front. A budget band and a couple of photos tell us whether we're the right fit before anyone gives up an evening, yours included. Nobody gets judged on the answer.
"The number they said at the start was the number at the end. One change, and they priced it before they built it. Nobody believes me when I tell them."
"We lived upstairs through most of it. Tidy site, honest about the fortnight they lost to the steel delivery, and the schedule moved with reasons attached."
"Three quotes, and Hartland's was the middle one. They were the only firm that walked us through a whole job start to finish instead of flicking through a gallery."
Example reviews with invented names and jobs, marked as such because this page is a concept. A live build pulls real reviews from the firm's Google profile and ties them to real projects.