1 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7JU info@kiif.co.uk01625 830714 HomeAboutServicesBuilding ContractorsOne contract for the whole buildNew BuildBespoke homes and developmentsRenovationWhole-house renovation programmesRefurbishment & RestorationPeriod buildings brought up to dateLandscapingExternal works and hard landscapingPlasteringSkimming, rendering and lime workJoineryStructural carpentry and fitted joineryRoofingNew roofs, re-roofing and repairsGroundworksFoundations, drainage and site works View all services Areas We CoverCounties & Regions - Alderley EdgeOur home village: office and yard on London Road. - CheshireCounty-wide building work from our Alderley Edge base. - ManchesterPeriod refurbishment and commercial fit-out in South Manchester. - LancashireNew builds and conversions north of the Cheshire border. - YorkshireStone-built property and rural schemes across the county. - MerseysideCommercial conversions and coastal refurbishment work. Towns - WilmslowTwo miles from base: extensions, refurbishment and conversions. - KnutsfordTown centre period property and rural barn conversions. - MacclesfieldStone terraces, hillside sites and retaining structures. - PrestburyHigh-specification homes delivered discreetly. - StockportResidential, commercial and industrial work across the borough. - BramhallSuburban extensions and remodelling on close-packed plots. View all areas we cover Our WorkReviewsContact01625 830714Request an Estimate - Home - Areas We Cover - Alderley EdgeOur home village # Building Contractors InAlderley Edge, WorkingFrom Our Own Doorstep Our office is at 1 London Road, in the middle of the village. That means site visits without a diary battle, materials delivered on the day they are needed, and a directly employed team who can be on your Alderley Edge site rather than routed there from another county. Request an Estimate01625 830714 Family-run in Alderley Edge with more than 40 years in construction. No-obligation site visit, you meet the people who will build the job. 40+ years Experience across residential, commercial and industrial work. SK9 7JU Office and base at 1 London Road, in the village itself. Directly employed Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers on our own books. Family-run Keep It In Family, David Cain with Victoria Kennedy on project management and design. Working in Alderley Edge ## Alderley Edge is not a coverage area for us. It is where we are from. Most contractors quoting for work in Alderley Edge travel in. We do not. KIIF Limited is registered and run from 1 London Road, a few minutes from London Road's shops, the station and the residential roads that run up towards the Edge itself. The practical result is a shorter chain between a question and an answer: if something is uncovered in a footing on Tuesday morning, the people who need to see it can stand in front of it the same day rather than promising a visit the following week. Being based here also shapes how we programme work. Alderley Edge has narrow residential roads, on-street parking pressure around the village centre, and a mix of large plots behind mature planting where access for a lorry or a digger has to be planned rather than assumed. We know which streets take a full-size delivery, which need a smaller wagon and a banksman, and where a skip has to be swapped for a grab lorry because there is nowhere to stand it. The property mix here is unusually broad for a village of this size. Substantial detached houses from the late Victorian and Edwardian expansion sit alongside interwar and mid-century detached stock, contemporary replacement dwellings on generous plots, converted farm buildings on the Nether Alderley fringe, and flats and commercial units around the centre. Each of those brings a different set of problems, solid brick walls and lath-and-plaster in the older stock, cavity walls and dated services in the mid-century houses, high specification finishes and complex glazing in the newer replacements. The work we are asked for in the village reflects that. Extensions and internal remodelling on family houses that are large but poorly arranged. Full refurbishment of period properties where the fabric is sound but everything behind the plaster is tired. Replacement dwellings where a client has bought for the plot rather than the house. And ongoing maintenance for owners who want one number to call rather than a different tradesman for every fault. Alderley Edge at a glance Where we are1 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7JU, the office you can call in at. Property typesVictorian and Edwardian detached, interwar and mid-century houses, contemporary replacement dwellings, converted farm buildings, village-centre commercial. Most requestedExtensions and remodelling, whole-house refurbishment, new build replacements, planned maintenance. Access notesNarrow residential roads, mature boundary planting, limited on-street standing near the centre: deliveries and plant are planned in advance. Postcodes covered: SK9 7, SK9 8, SK10 4 (Nether Alderley) Services in Alderley Edge ## Everything we build for Alderley Edge clients, under one contract ### New builds in Alderley Edge Replacement dwellings and bespoke homes on village plots, built by our own trades from foundations to handover. View service ### Extensions & remodelling Rear, side and two-storey extensions planned around how the rest of the house actually works, not bolted on to it. View service ### Refurbishment & restoration Period village houses brought up to modern standards without stripping out the detail that gives them value. View service ### Conversions Barns, outbuildings and redundant space converted into usable, warm, properly serviced accommodation. View service ### External works & landscaping Driveways, drainage, retaining structures and hard landscaping that survive Cheshire winters. View service ### Maintenance Planned and reactive property maintenance for owners who want one accountable point of contact. View service ### Building Contractors General contracting with our own site management, estimating and procurement, so the whole build sits under one accountable contractor. View service ### Renovation Full property renovations: roofs, windows, render, insulation, rewires and replumbing, with internal layouts reworked for the way you live now. View service ### Plastering Directly employed plasterers for skimming, float and set, dot and dab, lime plaster on period walls and external render systems. View service ### Joinery Roofs, floors and timber structure through to staircases, doors, skirtings and fitted joinery, cut and fixed by our own carpenters. View service ### Roofing Cut and pitched, trussed, flat and warm deck roofs, slate and tile coverings, leadwork, skylights, fascias and guttering. View service ### Groundworks Site clearance, excavation, foundations, below-ground drainage, soakaways, service ducting and slabs, set out and levelled correctly first time. View service Why KIIF in Alderley Edge ## Four decades of building, run from an office in the village The reasons to use KIIF in Alderley Edge are practical rather than promotional. We are close, we employ our own people, and the family who owns the business is the family you deal with. ### Proximity, not a call centre The office is in Alderley Edge. Site visits, snag inspections and material drop-offs do not depend on a van being released from a job somewhere else. ### Our own trades on site Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers are directly employed. The same faces move through the programme, so detail is not re-explained to a new gang each stage. ### 40+ years of local stock Four decades of work across residential, commercial and industrial buildings in this part of Cheshire, including the property types that dominate the village. ### One family accountable Keep It In Family. David Cain leads delivery as Project Director; Victoria Kennedy runs project management and design. Neither hides behind a switchboard. ### In-house estimating Estimating, procurement, administration and customer service sit under one roof, so pricing questions are answered by the people who priced the job. ### Neighbour-aware sites Village streets are tight and close together. Deliveries, skips, plant and working hours are agreed before the first load arrives. Local building conditions ## What actually goes wrong in Alderley Edge properties The faults we are called to in the village repeat. They come from the age and construction of the housing stock, the plots it sits on, and the Cheshire climate it has to survive. ### Solid-wall period stock Late Victorian and Edwardian houses here were built with solid brick walls and no cavity. Insulating them, adding openings or forming new structural links needs a strategy rather than a standard detail, or you trade a cold room for a damp one. ### Tired services behind good fabric Many village houses have sound structure and dated wiring, heating and drainage. A cosmetic refurbishment that leaves those in place simply hides the next problem. ### High water tables and clay Plots on the lower ground west of the village sit on heavy clay that holds water. Foundations, drainage runs and any lowered floor level have to be designed for it. ### Mature trees and root protection The large planted plots that make the village attractive also bring root protection areas and shrinkage-heave risk into every foundation decision. ### Access and standing Narrow roads, on-street parking and gated frontages mean plant and deliveries need planning. Unplanned access is where programmes and neighbour relations both fail. ### Weather-exposed elevations Wind-driven rain off the Cheshire plain finds any weakness in pointing, flashings, copings and rainwater goods. Left alone, it moves from a stain to structural repair. Our process ## The same fixed sequence on every Alderley Edge project - Step 1 ### Enquiry and call You describe the project. We tell you honestly whether it suits us and what information we need before pricing anything. - Step 2 ### Site visit We come to the property, look at access, structure and constraints, and talk through what you want the finished building to do. - Step 3 ### Priced proposal In-house estimating produces a proposal broken down by element, so you can see where the money sits and what changing a specification does. - Step 4 ### Programme and pre-start Sequence, deliveries, skips, parking, working hours and any neighbour notice are agreed before we start on site. - Step 5 ### Build with our own team Directly employed trades work the programme, with David or Victoria as one point of contact throughout. - Step 6 ### Handover and aftercare We walk the finished work with you, close out snags and stay reachable afterwards for maintenance. Detail ## Building in Alderley Edge: the detail that decides the outcome This section is written for anyone weighing up a project in the village and trying to work out where the risk sits. It is drawn from the way work here actually runs, not from a template. ### Extensions and remodelling on village houses The typical Alderley Edge extension enquiry is not about square metres. It is about a house that is big enough already but arranged wrongly: a kitchen at the front, a formal room nobody uses, a utility that has to be walked through, and no relationship between the living space and the garden. Adding volume to that without changing the layout produces a bigger version of the same problem. We look at circulation first. Where does the front door land you, where does daylight come from at different times of day, and what does the garden look like from inside? Often the useful answer is a modest extension plus significant internal reorganisation, moving a staircase, removing a spine wall with the right structural support, relocating services, rather than the largest footprint planning would allow. Structurally, older village houses complicate this. Solid brick walls, timber floors bearing in unexpected directions and chimney breasts doing structural work all need to be understood before a wall comes out. Where a steel is needed, we want the padstone, bearing and fire protection detail resolved on paper before demolition starts, not improvised at the point where the ceiling is already open. - Rear and side extensions on constrained village plots - Two-storey extensions where foundations and drainage allow - Internal reorganisation and spine-wall removal with structural support - Kitchen, utility and boot-room reconfiguration - Structural openings and glazed links to gardens - Loft and first-floor alterations tied into existing roof structure ### Refurbishment of period and mid-century stock A large share of village housing is either pre-1930 solid wall construction or mid-century cavity construction, and both are now at the age where the fabric outlives the services. Full refurbishment is usually the honest answer: strip back, deal with wiring, plumbing, heating and drainage, correct damp and thermal weaknesses, then finish once rather than twice. In period houses the aim is to keep what gives the building its character, cornices, panelled doors, sash windows, original joinery profiles, stair details, and to renew everything performing badly behind it. Our own joiners matter here: matching an existing moulding or repairing a window rather than replacing it is normal work for an employed joiner and a chargeable extra for a subcontractor. In mid-century houses the value usually sits in insulation, airtightness, glazing, heating strategy and layout. These houses often have generous rooms and poor thermal performance, and improving them is a fabric-first exercise before anyone specifies a new heat source. - Full-house strip-out and renewal of services - Damp investigation and correction of causes, not symptoms - Joinery repair and matched replacement by our own joiners - Plastering and decoration in solid and cavity construction - Roof, flashing, pointing and rainwater repairs - Insulation and airtightness upgrades that avoid interstitial damp ### New builds and replacement dwellings Plots in Alderley Edge are rarely empty. Most new build work here is a replacement dwelling: an existing house that has reached the end of its useful life on a plot worth building on properly. That brings demolition, service disconnection, tree protection, party boundary care and a groundworks package that has to deal with whatever the old building left behind. We start at ground level, site clearance, excavation, drainage and foundations, then take the build through superstructure, roof, first fix, plastering, second fix, decoration, external works and handover. Because much of the workforce is directly employed, the same team carries the detail through those stages instead of handing it over six times. We are comfortable working to a client's existing architect and structural engineer, and we prefer to review buildability before drawings are frozen. Flagging an unbuildable junction at drawing stage costs an hour. Finding it on site costs a fortnight. ### Maintenance and long-term care in the village A large house in Alderley Edge generates a steady stream of small work: gutters, flashings, external decoration, drainage, joinery repairs, fencing, gates, plant rooms. Owners generally do not want six different contractors for that. They want one number, one accountable business and someone who already knows the property. We handle both planned and reactive maintenance for exactly that reason, and because being based in the village makes it feasible. Ongoing maintenance also feeds better projects, when we come to price an extension for a house we already maintain, the survey work is largely done. ### How Alderley Edge connects to the rest of our patch Alderley Edge sits between Wilmslow to the north, Prestbury and Macclesfield to the east, Knutsford to the west and Bramhall and Stockport beyond towards Manchester. Practically, that means a single directly employed team covers all of them from one base without long travel, and materials ordered for one site can be redirected to another the same morning. It also means the building stock we work on repeats across those areas: the same Victorian and Edwardian detached houses, the same interwar and mid-century estates, the same converted farm buildings on the rural fringes. Four decades of solving those problems in one area transfers directly to the next. Alderley Edge questions ## What Alderley Edge clients ask first Do you cover Alderley Edge?Yes. KIIF Limited is based at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge, SK9 7JU. The village is our home patch, not an outlying part of a coverage map. How quickly can you get to a property in Alderley Edge?Our office is in the village, so a visit in Alderley Edge is a short journey rather than a trip in from another town. Call 01625 830714 and we will agree a time that works, we do not quote fixed response windows we cannot guarantee for every situation. What does building work cost in Alderley Edge?We do not publish rates, because a price depends on access, structure, specification and the condition of what is already there. Every proposal is priced in-house and broken down by element so you can see what each part costs and what changing a specification does to the figure. Do you handle urgent or reactive work in the village?Yes. We carry out reactive property maintenance alongside planned work. Ring the office on 01625 830714 and describe what has happened; if it needs someone on site we will tell you straight away what we can do and when. Do you work on period houses in Alderley Edge?Regularly. Much of the village housing stock is solid-wall Victorian, Edwardian and interwar construction. Our directly employed joiners repair and match existing joinery rather than defaulting to replacement. Can you work with my architect?Yes. We work to clients' existing architects and structural engineers, and we will review buildability early, before drawings are frozen, to flag details that will be slow or expensive to build. Will you use subcontractors on my project?The core trades, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers, are directly employed by KIIF. Specialist packages are brought in where genuinely specialist work is required, and they are managed by us. How do you manage deliveries and neighbours on narrow village roads?Access, standing for wagons, skip position, plant movements and working hours are agreed before we start. On tight streets we use smaller deliveries, grab lorries and banksmen rather than blocking a road and hoping. Do you take on smaller jobs, or only full projects?Both. Alongside new builds, extensions and refurbishments we run planned and reactive maintenance for local owners, which is often how a longer relationship starts. What happens after handover?We walk the finished work with you, close out snags and remain reachable. Being in the village makes aftercare straightforward rather than a favour. We also work in Wilmslow, Prestbury, Knutsford, Macclesfield and across the wider North West, see every area we cover, all services, recent projects, the homepage or contact the office. ## Building in Alderley Edge?Talk to the contractorbased in the village. Call the office or send the details of your project. We will arrange a site visit, tell you honestly whether the job suits us, and price it properly. 01625 830714Request an Estimate - Family-run, over 40 years in construction - Directly employed joiners, bricklayers and groundworkers - Office at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge - Site visit with the team who will build it ### Tell us about your project Send the details and we will arrange a site visit in Alderley Edge at a time that suits you. Keep It In Family. 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