What structural carpentry do you do in Farnborough?
Across Farnborough (GU14) it is mostly timber frame plots, truss and cut roofs and first fix packages on town centre and business park schemes. Farnborough is a town built around its airfield and its business parks, with town centre regeneration plots and commercial schemes sitting alongside ordinary housing, so the work there swings between apartment scale steel and frame packages and single plot roofs. 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 Farnborough?
No. Farnborough is where we are based, so there is no travel charge and we can usually get to a site there within a day or two of you calling.
Do you cover Farnborough regularly?
Yes. Farnborough is where we are based, so plots here are a few minutes from the yard and popping back to check a detail costs nobody anything. We are based in Farnborough and cover London, Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire as standard, so Farnborough 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 Farnborough change how the job is done?
It varies more than most places, which is why we look at the drawings rather than the postcode. Farnborough has town centre and commercial schemes wanting steel and frame packages, and one-off houses and extensions wanting a cut roof and a first fix package. The structure, the access and the crane requirement are completely different between the two, so the quote comes off your drawings and a look at the site, not off a rate per square metre.
How long would the structure take on a job in Farnborough?
For a single house in Farnborough, 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 Farnborough 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 Farnborough?
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 Farnborough.
