Extensions & Construction in Birmingham

An extension is two trades wearing one hat: whoever builds the walls and whoever roofs them. Hire them separately and you get two schedules, two versions of that is not my side, and a weather window nobody owns. We are roofing and construction under one roof, so the structure and the covering are planned together from day one.

That matters most at the junction. The wall plates, the lead work, the pitch where the new roof meets the old: these are the spots where an extension succeeds or leaks. A builder who treats the roof as somebody else's problem leaves you the weak points; we treat the roof as the point.

From knock-throughs that open up ground floors to full extensions across the back of a Birmingham semi, we carry out the building work and the roofing with the same team, domestic and commercial. One of our clients put it best: "They handled our extension knock-through seamlessly. Left the place spotless." Free non-obligatory quotes, and all building work undertaken.

Most extension work in Birmingham starts with the same two houses. The Victorian two-up-two-downs are tight on space, so the extension goes off the back, and the new roof has to splice into an old one built for nobody's extension. The 1930s semis have more room to play with, but matching tile and pitch is still what decides whether the finished job blends in or shouts. Getting that junction right is the whole game.

Those two houses have addresses. The two-up-two-downs are the streets of Balsall Heath and Sparkbrook, where the terraces sit tight to the pavement and the only way is out the back, so the extension roof rises between neighbouring bedrooms and light has to be designed in. The 1930s semis are Kings Heath and Hall Green territory, wider plots, hips and bay roofs, and a tile match that has to hold up against ninety years of weathering on the old slope. Same city, two entirely different briefs, and both are bread and butter to us because we build the walls and the roof together.