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Rear extension with bifold doors opening onto a new porcelain patio

Services

Six things we do, properly

From a dropped kerb in a day to a house taken back to brick and put together again.

Interior stripped back to brick with a new structural opening formed
Structural

01

Renovations and extensions

Full refurbishments, extensions, annexes, structural alterations and garden rooms. We take houses back to brick and put them together again, including the steels, the openings and the bits that need signing off. Because the groundworks are ours, an extension does not sit waiting for somebody else's digger.

  • Extensions and annexes
  • Structural alterations and steels
  • Full property refurbishments
  • Garden rooms
Gloss handleless kitchen with a quartz island and a marble effect splashback
Fit-out

02

Kitchens and bathrooms

Fitted kitchens, bathrooms and bespoke joinery, including fitted bedrooms, media walls and alcove units. Every trade on it is ours or somebody we have worked with for years, so the plasterer is not waiting on the electrician who is waiting on us.

  • Fitted kitchens
  • Bathrooms and wet rooms
  • Fitted bedrooms and alcove joinery
  • Media walls
Block paved driveway with a contrasting feature border
Surfacing

03

Driveways and patios

Block paving, resin bound, tarmac and stone. The finish is the part you see, but the reason a drive stays flat for twenty years is the dig and the sub base underneath it, and that is the part we do not sub out.

  • Block paved driveways
  • Resin bound surfacing
  • Tarmac drives and repairs
  • Indian sandstone and porcelain patios
New kerb line and setts laid alongside a live road
Highways

04

Dropped kerbs and vehicle crossings

A dropped kerb is highway work, so it is not something every builder can legally do. We are NRSWA accredited, we make the council application on your behalf, and we do the job to the spec the council will pass. Most of ours go in inside a day.

  • NRSWA accredited
  • We handle the council application
  • Single and double crossings
  • Made good in tarmac, setts or block
New rear garden with a porcelain patio, rendered walls and laid turf
Outdoors

05

Garden landscaping

Whole gardens, not just the paving. Levels, retaining walls, sleeper beds, turf, artificial grass, fencing and the drainage that stops it all sitting in water. The most praised thing in our reviews, for what it is worth.

  • Full garden design and build
  • Retaining walls and sleeper beds
  • Turf and artificial grass
  • Fencing, composite and timber
Estate road surfaced and line marked with plant working on site
Commercial

06

Groundworks and commercial

Foundations, drainage, kerbing, car parks, estate roads and security fencing. CHAS accredited, and used to working to a programme on a live site alongside other trades.

  • Foundations, footings and drainage
  • Kerbing and adopted highway works
  • Car parks and estate roads
  • Palisade and security fencing

Questions

Questions we get asked

  • No. Coming out to look and giving you a written price is free, and there is no obligation after it.

  • It depends on the job and the time of year. Ring us and we will tell you honestly rather than book you in and then move you.

  • Not a large one. We work on staged payments tied to work you can see, and the final payment comes after you have looked at the job and you are happy.

  • Yes, we are VAT registered.

  • Yes. One of our Checkatrade reviews says “no job too small” and we would rather keep it that way.

  • Barnsley and the surrounding villages, then out across Sheffield, Rotherham, Chesterfield, Wakefield, Pontefract, Ossett, Goole, Halifax, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike and Keighley.

  • An independent health and safety assessment that commercial clients and main contractors check for before they let a contract. Very few domestic builders hold it.

  • The New Roads and Street Works Act qualification. It is what legally allows us to work on the public highway, which is what a dropped kerb is.

  • Yes, and we make the council application for you. Most of ours are finished inside a day.

  • It depends on the width, the kerb type, what the footpath is made of and the council's own fees. We will price it properly when we have seen it.

  • Sometimes, and sometimes it falls under permitted development. We will tell you which one you are looking at before you spend anything.

  • We do. That is the point of us. Foundations, drainage and sub bases are our own lads, not a subcontractor.

  • Every day, not just at the end. It is the single most mentioned thing in our reviews.

  • Yes. Tell us which town and what kind of job and we will send you photos of one like it.

  • Yes. Car parks, estate roads, foundations, drainage and security fencing, on live sites and to a programme.

  • We tell you. You will not turn up to an empty driveway and be left guessing.

  • Yes. D.C.U Services Ltd, company number 15842254, registered in Barnsley.

Checked, not just recommended

Two accreditations that decide what we are allowed to do

  • CHAS Accredited Contractor

    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.

  • NRSWA accredited, New Roads and Street Works Act

    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

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