Building jobs in UK

Fireplace installation

  • Location: Tonbridge
  • Hired: Heatsafe installations ltd
  • Trade: Chimneys & Fireplaces
Job Description

We need to get our fireplace fitted. We already have a hearth (that needs putting in) and the fire place. It will be for solid fuel. I believe that we would need to get some mortar for underneath the basket and ceramic beads for packing behind. The room is carpetted, and there is a constructional hearth in situ. Some plaster work will need to be done once the fireplace is set and bolted in place.

Steel restrain straps

  • Location: Rochester
  • Hired: D Marks Contractors.
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

We had an inspection about a crack in our 2nd-floor side wall. The report recommended that we install steel restraint straps to restrain flank wall at 1st and 2nd floor level.

Request possible view/ quote for this and:
(ii) review of the guttering
(ii) review of pebble-dash under the roof

We realise that it may not be possible for one builder to do the lot in which the emphasis must be on the steel restraint straps.

Coving and stud wall removal

  • Location: Clevedon
  • Hired: Coles & Collins
  • Trade: Conversions - General
Job Description

Coving to go round kitchen 20x11ft wide kitchen and removal of a stud wall that has been built into an arch way into another room, then make good the arch, probably bit of plastering.

Wall removal for open plan refurb

  • Location: Manchester
  • Hired: mather brickwork ltd
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

Wall removal and steel beam to create open plan space for downstairs residential. Works include masonry, flooring, electrics, plaster and general making good, wall approx 2.5x3.9m.

House renovation

  • Location: Salford
  • Hired: lowe maintenanace
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

Fitting of new boiler, new bathroom, new kitchen appliances and cupboard doors, Plastering, tiling of floors and walls, some plastering and decoration in other rooms. Job could be viewed 14 or 15 Feb.

Complete modernisation of two bedroom flat

  • Location: Camden Town
  • Hired: New Horizon Projects Ltd
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

Complete modernisation of two bedroom top floor maisonette, in converted Victorian townhouse. The project involves:
- New kitchen
- New bathroom x 2
- New flooring and underfloor heating
- Replacing hot water tank and pipes
- Re-plastering
- Painting and decorating etc

Rebuilding of Wall around an oil tank

  • Location: Preston
  • Hired: Bespoke Build
  • Trade: Bricklaying
Job Description

The wall around my oil tank needs rebuilding as it looks like it is about to fall down.
It is built of red brick
Only 2 out 4 walls are a problem :
(1) 60x65 cm
(2) 64X250cm - think only top of wall is a problem

Refurbishment of duplex flat

  • Location: Islington
  • Hired: New Horizon Projects Ltd
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

Redecoration, Bathroom refit, new radiators, wood flooring installation, tiled flooring installation, dropped ceilings, kitchen doors/drawers, new partition, electric underfloor heating

Re-Pointing

  • Location: Luton
  • Hired: mike franks building and landscaping services
  • Trade: Bricklaying
Job Description

Side of house (cluster house) brickwork needs re-pointing.

Modernising a 2 bedroom terraced

  • Location: Liverpool
  • Hired: H S Developmts
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

Hello

We now have funds available for building work on our home. It's a 2 bedroom terrace and we want all works done at the same time, they are multi trade. Our house is 100 years old & the living room & dining room is knocked through..the kitchen is a flat roof extension going out to the back yard wall. There is a small square 1mx1m landing then straight head a front bedroom then a second bedroom at the rear. Access to the bathroom is gained by walking through the 2nd bedroom. I will list the work we require..

A boiler moving from the 2nd bedroom to the kitchen below & the flue will need to come up & out the flat roof as the back of the wall is an alley way

Radiator in 2nd bedroom moving to a different wall
Radiator in front bedroom moving to a different wall
Radiator in bathroom moving to a different wall
(There is easy access to under floorboards)

Plumbing pipes from old immersion in 2nd bedroom to bathroom need dropping under the floorboards as currently boxed in above the floor (or removed completely if this is possible?)

Old immersion cupboard knocking down & plastering to make good (tank already removed but not pipe work)

Bathroom suite changed and the layout changed. (approx 6ft x 6ft)
New door entrance to access bathroom cut out

Old bathroom entrance bricked up & a storage cupboard made out of the cubby ( approx 3ft x 3ft)

Partition wall building to separate the 2nd bedroom therefore creating a 'landing'.(approx 11 1/2 ft)

A non supporting stud wall removing to create the landing area nod a bannister with spindles installing (approx 8 1/2 feet)

The loft hatch which is currently in the bathroom extension ceiling will need moving

We want a structural engineers report on the stud wall removal but also some advice on a Chimney breast removal that was done by the previous owner which was not included in our buyers survey as we got basic.

We are not time wasters, we have money and we want the work starting in the next couple of weeks. Please only reply if you are serious and in a position to take on the work.

Replace brick

  • Location: Wakefield
  • Hired: Josh Greaves
  • Trade: Bricklaying
Job Description

Brick/Block needs replacing that was drilled through by a telephone engineer. Brick smashed where the drill came through the wall.

Lean-to approximately 6m x 1.5m

  • Location: Ely
  • Hired: B&CO LT-UNITED LIMITED
  • Trade: Garages & Sheds
Job Description

I'd like a lean-to shelter built against the side wall of our house, approximately 6m x 1.5m. The floor is already concrete there, brick house wall down the 6m side, wood fence approx 2m at both ends and open on the other side. I just want this to be somewhere dry to store garden equipment / toys etc.

Rendering outside of small office

  • Location: Dartford
  • Hired: Findon Building Company
  • Trade: Restoration & Refurbishment
Job Description

I have a car workshop which has a small office extension. The old render on the outside office walls needs to be chipped off and new rendering applied.
There are some loose breeze blocks above a doorway which need to be secured before rendering.
There is also an issue with a very small part of the damp proof course where an outside slope has been raised slightly too high and possibly needs to be cut back before the walls can be rendered. The whole rendering area is approx. 25 square metres.
I also need a small step built outside the office door, to be built with brick. I already have a large slate tile for the top surface. Step size to be 900mm x 400mm.

Repair external wall at front of house

  • Location: Bristol
  • Hired: Willow Plastering and Rendering
  • Trade: Bricklaying
Job Description

Wall at front of house is damaged and crumbling, needs a bush grwoing behind it removing as roots are causing damage and then wall repairing/rebuilding in places.

* Added 13th May, 2013 :
Wall at front of house is damaged and crumbling, needs a bush growing behind it removing as roots are causing damage and then wall repairing/rebuilding in places. See attached photo for one end of wall - wall extends further in other direction by about 6 ft - this also needs some repairs, mainly to mortar (I'm guessing!)

Rebuild front garden wal

  • Location: Bristol
  • Hired: N.C. Plastering & General Building
  • Trade: Bricklaying
Job Description

Front garden wall approx 10ft long, 2 ft high 18 inches wide. crumbling in the middle, about to fall apart. Building materials 90% intact. Needs repair/rebuild ?

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