Barnsley · South and West Yorkshire
From the first dig to the last worktop
Most of what goes wrong on a building job is under the floor, not on top of it. We dig our own foundations and lay our own drainage, so when the kitchen goes in there is nobody left to blame.
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Two accreditations that decide what we are allowed to do
We are allowed on commercial sites
CHAS is the health and safety assessment main contractors and commercial clients screen for before they let a contract. Very few domestic builders hold it.
We are allowed to work on the road itself
NRSWA is the New Roads and Street Works Act qualification. It is what makes a dropped kerb legal, and it is why we can do one when most builders cannot.
- £1,000 Checkatrade guarantee
- Free estimates
- Domestic and commercial
What we do
Start with the closest match
Most real jobs cross over more than one of these. Pick whichever is nearest and we will work the rest out when we come and look.
The half nobody photographs
A job is only as good as what is under it
This is the order it actually happens in. The first two are the ones that decide whether the last one lasts.
Everything starts in the clay. Get the depth and the width wrong here and you pay for it for twenty years.
Hardcore, membrane, drainage runs, then concrete. This is the part you will never see again once it is covered.
Walls out, openings formed, steels in. The stage where a house looks worse than when we started.
Block paving, resin, tarmac or stone. Laid on a base we put in ourselves, which is why it stays flat.
And then the part you actually wanted. Same firm, same lads, no handover in the middle.
Most builders subcontract the bottom two. That is where the delays come from.
Recent work
Find a job like yours
Every photograph on this website is our own work, shot on the day. No stock, no borrowed portfolios.
Seven of eighty five. The rest are on the work page, filtered by job type.
Before and after
The same job, twice
Only the first one slides, because it is the only pair we shot from the same spot. The rest are side by side. We would rather show you that than line up two photos that do not match.
Rear garden rebuild
Levelled, sleeper beds built and edged, then turfed. Drag the handle across.
Through lounge and media wall
Opened up, plastered, then the media wall and alcove joinery built in. Same room, camera facing the other way.
Block paved drive with a feature border
Dug out, base laid, then blocks cut round the diamond. The border is set out before the field is filled in.
Kitchen fit-out
Units and worktop first, then the electrics, the plumbing and the appliances.
How we work
What happens, and what it costs you
Nobody enjoys the part where a builder goes quiet. So here is the order of it, and how the money works, before you have to ask.
Step 01
We come and look
Free, and no obligation. Some jobs we can price on the day. Bigger ones take a few days to put together properly.
Step 02
You get a written price
Itemised, so you can see what the materials cost and what the labour costs. If something is an estimate rather than a fixed price, we say so.
Step 03
We agree a start date
And we tell you how long it will take. If the weather or a supplier moves it, you hear that from us, not from an empty driveway.
Step 04
The work
We turn up when we said. We clear up at the end of every day, not just at the end of the job.
Step 05
You pay in stages
Tied to work you can actually see. No large deposit up front, and the final payment comes after you have looked at it and you are happy.
What moves the price
We do not publish a price list, because a driveway on a flat front garden and a driveway on a slope with a drain in the middle are not the same job. What changes it: access for machinery, what is under the existing surface, ground conditions, materials you choose, and whether the council needs to be involved.
- Free estimate, no obligation.
- Staged payments, tied to visible progress.
- Itemised quotes, so you can see what you are paying for.
Three things you can hold us to
- You are told when we are coming.
- You are told if that changes.
- You get your invoice.
Reviews
What people say afterwards
20 verified reviews across Checkatrade and MyBuilder. These are their words, not ours.
“Jealous neighbours, you can't ask for anything more!!”
“Turned up on time, explained the whole process from start to finish.”
“Excellent workmanship, very tidy, very reliable and competitive with prices.”
“Nothing was too much trouble. Liam was really experienced in advising what would look the best.”
“Good job, good price, came when they said, in and away in one day.”
“Cleaned up after daily, worked hard in the heat, came daily from when I was promised.”
“Liam accepted the job and attended within 2 hours, sourced and replaced new manhole.”
Who you are dealing with
I am Liam, and it is my name on the job
I have been in this industry 17 years. I started on the tools, spent years on groundworks and highways, and I still price and run every job myself.
I got tired of watching good jobs stall because the groundworker finished on a Friday and the joiner could not start until a fortnight on Monday.
That is why we do the digging and the finishing. When it is all our own lads, that gap does not exist.
We work across Barnsley, Sheffield, Wakefield and most of West Yorkshire, on everything from a single dropped kerb to a full renovation. Give me a ring and I will come and look at it.
Commercial
Car parks, estate roads and site groundworks
The same team that fits a kitchen also puts in foundations, drainage, kerbing and surfacing on commercial sites. CHAS accredited and NRSWA accredited, and used to working to a programme around other trades on a live site.
- Foundations, footings, drainage runs and concrete bases
- Kerbing, edging, setts, retaining walls and adopted highway works
- Car parks and estate roads, surfaced and line marked
- Palisade and security fencing to industrial units
- Site clearance and muck away
Where we work
Barnsley based, and out across two counties
These are places we have actually finished jobs, not a circle drawn on a map.
Barnsley and around
- Barnsley
- Athersley
- Smithies
- Wombwell
- Darfield
- Goldthorpe
- Thurnscoe
South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire
- Sheffield
- Rotherham
- Chesterfield
Wakefield district
- Wakefield
- Pontefract
- Ossett
- Goole
Calderdale and Kirklees
- Halifax
- Dewsbury
- Heckmondwike
- Keighley
Not on the list? Ring us anyway. If it is too far we will tell you straight.
Tell us what you are thinking of
It takes about a minute, and you do not need drawings or a budget worked out. We will come and look, and you will get a written price.
Free estimate, no obligation.
