Building Services
Types of Building Services offered by builders
The building trade offer a wide variety of building services to suit most requirements, so it's important to choose a building company with the right service offering. You'll find many builders who offer a broad range of service and others who are very specialist. You can choose your building company to suit the needs of your building project.
Here's a few of the building services available:
General Building Services
Many companies don't specialise in any one building service and will offer a broad spectrum of building services under the name of General Building Services. Find out more about General Building Services.
New Builds
Many builidng companies offer specialised services to build domestic or commercial buildings from scratch as new builds. Find out more about New Build Services.
Self Builds
Self builds account for a significant percentage of new property and many building companies offer self build services tailored for the owner/project manager requirements to bring in the trades when and where they need them. Find out more about Self Build Services.
Building Refurbishment Services
Building Refurbishment Services include a wide variety of services but are focused on existing domestic and commercial properties. This may include further specialities such as roof refurbishment or building facade refurbishment. Building companies offering refurbuishment services would not be interested in new builds as a rule. Find out more about Refurbishment Services.
Building Maintenance Services
Building Maintenance Companies offer a wide variety of building services for the maintenance of your domestic property or commercial facility. Building Maintenance Companies offer a single point of contact to get your building fixed, saving you the hassle of ringing around for a specific tradesman. Find out more about Building Maintenance Services.
Home Extension Services
There are many building companies who specialists at building extensions and they will have a full range of tradesmen from roofers, bricklayers, plasterers and carpenters at their disposal. They often offer a design service to save you time and money if you need something straight forward. Find out more about Home Extension Services.
Insurance Repair Services
Insurance Repair companies will organise all repairs for you and invoice your insurance company directly. Whether it be water damage from burst pipes, leaking gas pipes, fire damage or storm damage, an Insurance Repair building company will take care of the whole job for you. Find out more about Insurance Repair Builders Services...
Eco-building Services
Eco-building companies offer conventional building services with environmentally sustainable design and construction methods to have a positive impact on the environment. Find out more about Eco Building Services...
Roofing Services
Roofing companies will offer full roof replacement services for tiled roofs, slate roofs, tin roofs, flat roofs and even thatched roofs! They will offer tiling, slate and lead work services for domestic and commercial properties. More about Roofing Services...
Loft Conversions
Building companies specialising in loft or attic conversions make the most of the space you have in your existing home. A basic loft conversion will involve laying down a floor and adding a loft ladder and perhaps Velux windows. Specialist loft conversion companies will give you the best end result, whether you want the loft space to fully integrate with the rest of the house or you just want a light-filled studio building. More details of Loft Conversion Services...
Carpentry Services
Working with wood is essential for building projects whether it's decking, kitchens, cabinets, flooring,staircases, doors, skirting, roofing etc. Carpenters offer services to cover most needs. Find out more about Carpentry Services...
Bricklaying Services
Bricklayers offer services to construct breeze block and brick walls, stone walls and garden walls. Bricklayers will often work with Hod Carriers supporting them. Find out more about Bricklaying Services...
Plumbing Services
Plumbing services include emergency plumbing work such as burst pipes and pipe work repair, plumbing systems, immersion elements and thermostats replaced and repaired, installation of mains water supply, cold water storage tanks, feed and expansion tanks. As well as installation of hot water cylinders, expansion vessels, unvented systems and saniflow installations. Find out more about Plumbing Services...
Green Plumbing Services
Green Plumbing and Heating services offers you the design, supply and installation of environmental plumbing including boiler installations, rainwater tanks, solar hot water, storm water systems and water saving devices and all other plumbing works. Find out more about Green Plumbing Services...
Glazing Services
Glaziers offer services related to windows and doors. Specialities include shop fronts, leaded lights, double glazing, mirrors, safety glass and toughened glass. Common types of glazing used in architectural applications include clear and tinted float glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass as well as a variety of coated glasses, all of which can be single, double, or even triple glazed.
Glazing can be mounted in a window sash or door stile, usually made of wood, aluminium or PVC. The glass or plastic is fixed into a rabbet (rebate) in the frame in a number of ways including triangular glazing points, putty, etc.. Toughened and laminated glass can be glazed by bolting panes directly to a metal framework by bolts passing through drilled holes.
Dry Lining Services
Dry lining refers to plasterboard fixed on wooden studwork or metal frames or breeze block walls. Dry lining with plasterboard on ceilings and walls replaces plaster or sand and cement covering to internal blockwork. Dry Lining specialists will focus on these applications and work in conjunction with bricklayers and carpenters.
Flooring Services
Flooring services include specialist supply of flooring materials, full preparation of the sub-floor, installation of floor, whether it be wooden, laminate, carpet, concrete, vinyl or epoxy resin, and repairs and renovation of all types of flooring. Find out more about Flooring Services...
Scaffolding Services
Scaffolders offer scaffolding services for commercial and industrial use, for flats, schools and housing projects. Scaffolding is available for timber frames and temporary roofing to cover the whole building, temporary staircases, site hoardings and temporary fencing. Find out more about Scaffolding Services for the building trade...
Garage Conversion Services
Most garages are too small to keep your car in, so converting garages is popular. Companies offering these services can convert your garage into a family room, a bedroom with or without en-suite facilities, a home office or study, a playroom, a dining room, a kitchen or utility room or even a home cinema! Find out more about Garage Conversion building companies.
Other building services
Here is a selection of other building services available.
- Kitchen extensions
- Home office construction
- Building maintenance
- Building insurance work
- Loft conversions
- Snagging
- Stone masonry
- Project manage building projects
- Mansion building
- Landscaping
- Refurbishment of flats and houses
- Conservatories
- Garages
- Block paving
- Patios
- Driveways
- Plastering
- Kit homes
