Home Improvements
In North Wales
Inside And Out, No Job Too Small

This is the bulk of it: the running repairs that keep a house from quietly degrading. Blocked or broken gutters and gullies, cracked render, loose or spalled brickwork and pointing, rotten timber, dropped doors and gates, damaged garden and boundary walls, paths and paving, and the leaks and draughts that come with all of them.

Because we are roofers first, we tend to trace water properly. A damp patch is not automatically a rising damp problem or a render problem; very often it is coming off the roof, the chimney or a gutter and appearing somewhere else entirely. Finding the cause first is cheaper than treating the symptom twice.

On the North Wales coast, exterior paintwork is protection rather than decoration. Salt air and driven rain strip a poorly prepared finish within a couple of seasons, and once the coating has gone the timber or render underneath starts taking water.

The preparation is most of the job: cutting out and treating any rot, filling and making good, cleaning down properly and priming bare substrate before anything else goes on. Timber fascias, bargeboards, soffits, windows, doors, railings and rendered or masonry walls all fall into this, and it is often worth doing while access is already up for roof work.

Inside, the work runs from making good after roof or damp repairs, through plasterwork patching, decorating, small joinery and fitting, to putting right the jobs that have been half done by somebody else.

Outside, it takes in the improvements that change how a property looks and how it holds up: re-rendering and repainting elevations, replacing tired timber with maintenance-free alternatives, tidying up drainage away from the walls, and general tidying of the outside of the building. Where a job is genuinely outside what we do, we will say so rather than take it on.

A good deal of this work is for landlords, managing agents and holiday-let owners who need a reliable local contractor for the maintenance list between tenancies and changeovers, rather than an emergency call every few months.

We can work through a list across one property or several, photograph what was done, and price it up front so it can be budgeted. We cover Bangor, Llangefni, Anglesey, Caernarfon, Conwy, Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Denbigh and Betws-y-Coed.