What structural carpentry do you do in Aldershot?
Across Aldershot (GU11) it is mostly timber frame housing on regeneration plots, truss roofs and first fix on garrison redevelopment. Aldershot has had large areas of former garrison land released for housing, which means volume timber frame and truss work on new estates running alongside older Victorian and interwar streets where roofs get cut on site instead. Every job is priced off your architect and engineer drawings and a look at the site access, because a rate per square metre for structural work is a guess dressed up as a quote.
Do you charge extra to come out to Aldershot?
No. Travel is in the price. Aldershot is about 5 km from our Farnborough base, well inside the patch we cover as a matter of course, so you are paying for labour and materials rather than for the van. What does affect the price is access: whether a crane can get in and stand, and whether the deliveries can be taken on site or have to be double handled.
Do you cover Aldershot regularly?
Yes. Aldershot is on our doorstep and the garrison land coming forward for housing has kept a steady run of frame and roof work going there. We are based in Farnborough and cover London, Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire as standard, so Aldershot is well inside our normal patch rather than a favour. Call and tell us where the site is, roughly what the structure is and when you need it, and you will get a straight answer on whether we can hit your dates.
Does the property in Aldershot change how the job is done?
It gives you both sorts of job side by side. New development land around Aldershot is repetitive housing, which is frame and truss work to a programme and priced by the plot. The older streets in the centre are extensions and conversions, which is cut roof and first fix work priced off the drawings. They are different jobs with different programmes, and we would rather tell you which one yours is at the quote than let you compare two prices that were never comparable.
How long would the structure take on a job in Aldershot?
For a single house in Aldershot, a timber frame is usually one to two weeks to wind-tight, a truss roof is a day or two once it is craned in, and an extension roof cut on site runs to two to four days. A steel goalpost and the timber framed off it is often the same visit. Larger schemes get a programme rather than a rule of thumb, worked out off the drawings before you commit to anything.
Can you look at drawings for a Aldershot job before we commit?
That is the order we would rather do it in. Send the architect and engineer drawings over and we will come back with a broken-down price and, more usefully, with the questions. Details that are awkward or expensive to build are cheap to change on a drawing and expensive to change on site, so it is worth having that conversation before the kit or the trusses are ordered.
Do you work as a subcontractor for developers in Aldershot?
Yes, and a good share of our work is exactly that. We are used to working to a main contractor programme, to site rules and method statements, and to being one of several trades on a live site. Insurance certificates and the usual subcontractor paperwork go over with the quote so nothing holds a start date up. We are equally happy dealing direct with a self-builder handling their own plot in Aldershot.
