What structural carpentry do you do in Weybridge?
Across Weybridge (KT13) it is mostly one-off timber frame houses, hand-cut roofs on large extensions and steel goalposts for knock-throughs. Weybridge is a settled commuter town where most of the work is single plots, extensions and loft conversions rather than new estates, and that pushes it towards hand-cut roofs, steel goalposts and first fix packages on existing houses. 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 Weybridge?
No. Travel is in the price. Weybridge is about 22 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 Weybridge regularly?
Yes. Weybridge is large one-off house territory, where roofs are cut on site and the steel and the timber usually go in on the same visit. We are based in Farnborough and cover London, Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire as standard, so Weybridge 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 Weybridge change how the job is done?
Yes, and mostly in favour of cut roofs. Weybridge is settled housing rather than development land, so the work is extensions, loft conversions and the occasional infill plot. Those roofs have to marry into an existing building, which rules a truss order out on most of them, and they usually come with a steel or two to form the opening below. Getting the beam and the roof done by the same outfit on the same visit is what keeps that sort of job short.
How long would the structure take on a job in Weybridge?
For a single house in Weybridge, 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 Weybridge 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 Weybridge?
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 Weybridge.
