Renovations in Marple.

Around Marple (SK6) it is mostly bathroom and kitchen renovations, loft conversions and sympathetic work on older stone property. Marple has older stone property and conservation area frontages, so anything affecting the outside of the building needs checking before it is priced, and inside there is rarely a square wall or a level floor to work from. Anything beyond a small repair is priced after we have been to look at it rather than over the phone, because the state of what is already there decides most of the cost.

No, travel is in the price. Marple is roughly 7 km from us in Stockport, well inside the area we cover day to day, so you are paying for the work rather than for the van. What moves the price is the job itself: what has to come out, what goes back, and whether anything structural is involved.

Yes. Marple has a lot of older stone property and conservation area frontages, so anything touching the outside needs checking before it is priced. We are based in Stockport and cover Cheshire and the surrounding areas as standard, so Marple is well inside the normal patch. Call and describe the job and you will get a straight answer on timing rather than a promise to ring back.

A fair amount. Older stone property in Marple has moved over a century or more, so walls are rarely plumb, floors are rarely level and a bathroom or kitchen has to be scribed and packed to fit rather than dropped in. There are usually restrictions on what can be changed on the outside as well, so anything touching windows, doors or the frontage gets checked before it is priced. None of that is a problem when it is allowed for from the start. It becomes a problem when somebody has quoted as though the house were a new build.

Yes, and most of them are. It means planning the days so the room is out of use for as short a time as possible, keeping the water on where we can, sheeting the route in and out, and cleaning the house down at the end of every day. If it is the only bathroom in the property, say so when you call, because that changes the order the work is done in and it is much easier to plan for at the start than half way through.

Marple is about 7 km away, which is a straightforward run, so getting out to look at it is easy. The visit and the quote are normally within the week. The start date depends on what is already booked in, and we would rather tell you a real date a few weeks out than promise next Monday and let you down. Small jobs can often be slotted in sooner.

Yes. Replacing a toilet, retiling a shower, hanging a door properly, adding a socket or fixing a leak are all normal work for us, and they get the same visit and the same written price as anything bigger. If it turns out to be something you could sort yourself in half an hour, we will tell you that instead of invoicing you for it.