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 - BramhallNorth-east of our base # Building Contractors InBramhall For ExtensionsAnd Family Remodelling Extensions, internal remodelling, garage and loft alterations and full refurbishment across Bramhall, Woodford, Cheadle Hulme and Poynton, delivered by directly employed trades who plan tight suburban access before a single delivery arrives. Request an Estimate01625 830714 Family-run with over 40 years in construction. No-obligation site visit in Bramhall, you meet the team who will do the work. 40+ years Residential, commercial and industrial construction experience. Directly employed Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers on our own books. In-house support Estimating, procurement, administration and customer service under one roof. Family-run David Cain on delivery, Victoria Kennedy on project management and design. Working in Bramhall ## Bramhall is extension and remodelling territory, and the constraint is almost always access Bramhall sits a short run north-east of our Alderley Edge office, over the Cheshire border into Greater Manchester. It is one of the most consistent parts of our patch in terms of building type: predominantly interwar, post-war and later twentieth-century detached and semi-detached housing, laid out on planned suburban roads, with a smaller number of larger properties around Bramhall Park and Ladythorn and modern infill throughout. Because the stock is consistent, the enquiries are too. Rear and side extensions to enlarge kitchens and family space, wrap-around extensions on corner plots, two-storey extensions where foundations and drainage allow, garage conversions and absorptions, loft conversions with dormers, and whole-house refurbishment on houses that have not been touched since the 1980s. We also carry out planned and reactive maintenance for owners who would rather have one contractor than a list of numbers. The technical challenge here is rarely exotic structure. It is working accurately on properties that sit close to their neighbours, with driveways rather than site compounds, no rear vehicle access, and households who are at home. Getting a digger to the back garden, protecting a boundary, positioning a skip without blocking a road, and sequencing the noisy work so a family can still function are the details that decide whether a Bramhall project runs calmly. Bramhall's other recurring issue is earlier extension work. A great many houses here already carry a 1970s or 1980s addition with shallow footings, a flat roof at the end of its life and little or no insulation. Extending or altering that means correcting it first, which we would rather establish and price at survey stage than discover once the ceiling is open. Bramhall at a glance Distance from baseA short drive north-east of our Alderley Edge office, covering Bramhall, Woodford, Cheadle Hulme and Poynton. Property typesInterwar and post-war detached and semi-detached housing, later twentieth-century estates, larger properties around Bramhall Park, modern infill. Most requestedExtensions and remodelling, garage conversions, loft conversions, whole-house refurbishment, maintenance. Site constraintsClose neighbours, no rear vehicle access, on-street parking pressure, school-run traffic, households working from home. Postcodes covered: SK7 1, SK7 2, SK7 3, SK7 8 Services in Bramhall ## Everything we build for Bramhall clients, under one contract ### Extensions & remodelling in Bramhall Rear, side, wrap-around and two-storey extensions combined with internal change, so the whole ground floor works. View service ### Garage & loft conversions Garages, lofts and outbuildings converted into warm, usable rooms, specified properly so they get used all year. View service ### Refurbishment Whole-house renewal of wiring, heating, drainage, insulation and finishes in one programme rather than five. View service ### New builds Replacement dwellings and infill homes on Bramhall plots, taken from clearance through to handover. View service ### External works & landscaping Driveways, patios, drainage and boundary work built to handle heavy clay and standing water. View service ### Maintenance Planned and reactive property maintenance with one accountable contractor to call. 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 Bramhall ## Careful work on close-packed suburban plots In Bramhall the difference between contractors is mostly about site conduct and honest surveying. Both are things we control by employing our own people. ### Our own trades on site Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers are directly employed, so the same team is in your house from start to finish. ### Access planned in advance Plant routes, protection, skip position, deliveries and waste removal are agreed before day one, essential where there is no rear access. ### 40+ years of this housing type Four decades of work on interwar, post-war and later suburban housing, including correcting badly built earlier extensions. ### Honest surveying before pricing We check footings, drainage, roof construction and insulation before quoting, so the price reflects the house you actually have. ### In-house estimating Pricing and procurement sit with us, so variations are re-priced quickly by the people who produced the original figure. ### Family-run accountability Keep It In Family. David Cain leads delivery; Victoria Kennedy runs project management and design. Local building conditions ## The recurring problems in Bramhall houses These come up on most Bramhall surveys. None are unusual, but each one changes scope, and each is cheaper to find before work starts than during it. ### 1970s and 80s extensions failing Shallow footings, uninsulated cavities and flat roofs beyond their service life. Building onto them without correcting them simply carries the problem forward. ### Heavy clay subsoil Much of the SK7 area sits on clay that holds water and shrinks in dry summers. Foundation depth, soakaway design and tree proximity all matter. ### Surface water and saturated gardens Level rear gardens on clay with no designed drainage produce standing water, which then sits against extensions and patios. ### Poor thermal performance Interwar and early post-war houses have thin or unfilled cavities and cold solid floors. Improving them needs a fabric-and-ventilation approach, not just a new boiler. ### Drainage runs in the way Shared drains and manholes frequently sit exactly where a new extension is wanted, so diversion or build-over agreement is part of the job. ### No rear access for plant Most Bramhall plots can only be reached through the house or a side path, which changes how excavation, spoil removal and materials are handled. Our process ## The same fixed sequence on every Bramhall project - Step 1 ### Enquiry and call You explain what you want to achieve. We tell you honestly whether it suits us and what we need in order to price it. - Step 2 ### Site visit in Bramhall We check access, footings, drainage, roof construction and insulation, and talk through how the finished space needs to work. - Step 3 ### Priced proposal In-house estimating prices the job element by element, including any correction of earlier work. - Step 4 ### Programme and pre-start Access route, plant, skip position, protection, working hours and dust control agreed before we start. - Step 5 ### Build with our own team Directly employed trades deliver the programme with David or Victoria as one point of contact. - Step 6 ### Handover and aftercare Joint walk-round, snags closed out, and a contractor still reachable for maintenance. Detail ## Extensions, conversions and refurbishment in Bramhall Written for Bramhall owners weighing up an extension or a full refurbishment, with the practical detail that determines whether the finished house works. ### Extensions on Bramhall houses The standard Bramhall brief is a bigger kitchen and family space with a proper connection to the garden, plus somewhere for coats, boots, laundry and bikes. On paper that is a rear extension. In practice the better result usually comes from a slightly smaller extension plus real internal change, absorbing the garage, moving the utility, relocating a doorway, and reconsidering what happens when you come through the front door. On corner and wider plots a wrap-around extension often gains far more usable space than a deeper rear extension, because it lets the kitchen, dining and utility functions separate properly instead of competing in one long room. Two-storey extensions are common here too, but they depend on existing foundation depth and drainage, which is exactly why we survey before pricing. The technical work is in the junctions: tying a new roof into an existing eaves line, keeping internal floor levels flush, dealing with an existing manhole, and forming a structural opening that carries the load without losing ceiling height. Those details are what make an extension read as part of the house rather than an addition. - Rear, side and wrap-around extensions - Two-storey extensions where footings and drainage allow - Garage absorption and integral garage conversion - Structural openings, steels and flush floor junctions - Drainage diversion and build-over agreements - Kitchen, utility and boot-room reconfiguration ### Loft and garage conversions that get used Bramhall roof spaces are often convertible, but the outcome depends on head height, the existing roof structure and where the staircase can land without ruining the floor below. We work that out before promising a room. Where a dormer is needed, the size and position have to balance internal space against how the rear elevation looks from the garden. Garage conversions succeed or fail on specification. Floor build-up with damp protection and insulation, insulation continuity where the garage meets the house, proper glazing, ventilation, heating and enough power for the actual use. Done properly, it becomes a genuine room. Done cheaply, it becomes cold storage again within two winters. - Loft conversions with dormers and structural alterations - Staircase positioning and first-floor reorganisation - Insulated, damp-protected garage floor build-ups - Continuous insulation at junctions with the existing house - Heating, ventilation, power and data provision - Roof strengthening and new openings ### Whole-house refurbishment A large number of Bramhall houses are structurally fine and thirty or forty years behind on everything else: original consumer units and circuits, a boiler nearing the end, cold solid floors, failed double glazing and bathrooms from another era. Doing that piecemeal is more expensive overall, because each trade damages the last one's finish. In one programme we strip back, renew services, correct damp and thermal weak points, then decorate once. Our own joiners handle doors, skirtings, staircases and windows, matching existing profiles where clients want continuity between the new and old parts of the house. Improving thermal performance is a fabric-first job. Insulation continuity, airtightness, glazing and ventilation come before new plant, because insulating a house without ventilating it is the fastest route to condensation and mould in the coldest corners. ### Groundworks, drainage and external works Clay ground and flat gardens make drainage the quiet decider on Bramhall projects. Soakaways sized for clay percolation rather than a textbook figure, patios and driveways laid with falls that take water away from the building, and drainage diversions handled properly where a run crosses a new footprint. Our own groundworkers do this work, so levels, drainage and the building are coordinated by one contractor. Where a shared drain runs under a proposed extension, we deal with the diversion or build-over process as part of the job rather than leaving it as your problem. ### Bramhall within our coverage Bramhall sits between Wilmslow and Poynton to the south and Cheadle Hulme and Stockport to the north, with Manchester beyond. One directly employed team covers all of it from our Alderley Edge base, keeping travel short and allowing labour and materials to move between sites the same day. The housing here is closely comparable to Wilmslow, Handforth, Cheadle Hulme and much of Stockport, so the extension, conversion and refurbishment detailing we use is proven across hundreds of similar properties rather than adapted on the fly. Bramhall questions ## What Bramhall clients ask first Do you serve Bramhall?Yes, Bramhall, Woodford, Cheadle Hulme and Poynton are all within our normal working area. Our office is at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge, a short drive south. How quickly can you reach a property in Bramhall?Bramhall is a short drive from our Alderley Edge base, so visits are local. Call 01625 830714 and we will agree a time; we do not advertise guaranteed response windows we cannot honour on every job. What does an extension cost in Bramhall?We do not publish prices, because cost depends on access, existing footings, drainage and specification. Every proposal is priced in-house and broken down by element, so you can see what each decision costs. Do you carry out emergency or reactive work in Bramhall?Yes, alongside planned maintenance. Ring 01625 830714, describe the problem, and we will tell you what we can do and when. Can you extend a house that already has a 1980s extension?Often, but we investigate first. Footing depth, roof construction, insulation and drainage on the existing extension frequently change the scope, and it is far cheaper to know that before work starts. How do you get plant into a rear garden with no side access?By planning it: mini plant, protected routes through or around the property, conveyor or barrow runs where necessary, and agreed skip or grab positions. It is settled at pre-start, not on the first morning. Can you work around us being at home?Yes. Dust protection, noise-heavy sequencing, access routes and working hours are agreed in advance, which matters on most Bramhall projects. Is a loft conversion possible in my house?It depends on head height, roof structure and where a staircase can land. We assess those at survey and tell you honestly what is achievable before you commit. Do you use your own trades or subcontractors?Core trades, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers, are directly employed. Genuine specialists are brought in where needed and managed by us. Who will I be dealing with?KIIF is family-run, Keep It In Family. David Cain is Project Director and Victoria Kennedy leads project management and design. We also work in Wilmslow, Stockport, Alderley Edge, Manchester and across the wider North West, see every area we cover, all services, recent projects, the homepage or contact the office. ## Extending or refurbishingin Bramhall? Get anhonest survey first. Call the office or send your project details. We will check what you actually have, tell you what the work involves, and price it element by element. 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 Bramhall at a time that suits you. Keep It In Family. 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