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 - KnutsfordWest across the Cheshire plain # Building Contractors InKnutsford For PeriodHomes And Conversions Barn conversions, period refurbishment, extensions and new builds across Knutsford, Mobberley, Ollerton, Tatton and Toft, delivered by a directly employed team from our Alderley Edge office, with groundworks and drainage handled in-house rather than sublet. Request an Estimate01625 830714 Family-run, over 40 years in construction, with our own joiners and groundworkers. No-obligation site visit in Knutsford. 40+ years Residential, commercial and industrial construction across the region. Rural-capable In-house groundworkers and drainage experience for off-mains rural sites. Directly employed Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers on our own books. Family-run David Cain on delivery, Victoria Kennedy on project management and design. Working in Knutsford ## Knutsford's building stock rewards contractors who understand old fabric and open ground Knutsford is a straight run west from our Alderley Edge office across the Cheshire plain, and it is one of the areas where the difference between a general builder and a contractor with its own joiners and groundworkers shows up most clearly. The town centre is dense, historic and constrained. Georgian and Victorian frontages, King Street and Princess Street with limited access and neighbours within touching distance. Outside it, the parish runs into genuinely rural territory towards Mobberley, Ollerton, Toft and the Tatton estate boundary, where sites are open, ground conditions vary field by field, and mains drainage is often not an option. Those two conditions demand opposite skills. In town, work is about protecting historic fabric, controlling dust and noise, sequencing deliveries into tight streets and building to a standard that suits a period property in a conservation setting. Out of town, it is about groundworks, drainage design, package treatment plants, long service runs, access tracks that will carry a wagon in February, and structural repair to buildings that were never designed as dwellings. The enquiries follow the geography. In and around the centre we are asked for period refurbishment, structural alterations, sympathetic extensions and full internal remodelling of town houses and cottages. Further out it is barn and farm-building conversions, replacement dwellings on rural plots, extensions to substantial detached houses, and external works: driveways, drainage, retaining structures and site-wide surface-water management. The town also carries the traffic and parking pressure that comes with a busy Cheshire market centre and the Tatton Park events calendar. Deliveries into WA16 postcodes near the centre are planned around that, using smaller loads and agreed standing rather than assuming a wagon can simply pull up. Knutsford at a glance Distance from baseA short drive west of our Alderley Edge office, covering Knutsford, Mobberley, Ollerton, Toft and the Tatton fringe. Property typesGeorgian and Victorian town houses and cottages, large detached suburban stock, farmhouses and barns, rural replacement dwellings. Most requestedBarn and outbuilding conversions, period refurbishment, extensions, groundworks and drainage, new builds. Site constraintsTight historic streets and conservation settings in town; off-mains drainage, soft access and long service runs out of town. Postcodes covered: WA16 0, WA16 6, WA16 7, WA16 8, WA16 9 Services in Knutsford ## Everything we build for Knutsford clients, under one contract ### Barn & building conversions Redundant farm buildings turned into warm, dry, properly serviced homes: structure, drainage and services handled by one contractor. View service ### Refurbishment & restoration Georgian and Victorian Knutsford properties renewed behind the plaster while the detail worth keeping stays intact. View service ### Extensions & remodelling Extensions sized and detailed to suit period and rural properties, combined with internal reorganisation that fixes the layout. View service ### New builds Replacement dwellings and bespoke homes on rural and edge-of-town plots, from site clearance to handover. View service ### External works & landscaping Driveways, access tracks, retaining walls, drainage and surface-water management designed for open Cheshire ground. View service ### Maintenance Planned and reactive maintenance for large rural and period properties that need a contractor who already knows them. 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 Knutsford ## One contractor for the fabric, the ground and the drainage Knutsford projects fail most often at the interfaces, between structure and drainage, between old fabric and new build, between contractors. Keeping those under one roof removes the gap. ### Groundworks in-house Our own groundworkers carry out clearance, excavation, drainage and foundations, which is where rural Knutsford projects usually go wrong when split between firms. ### Our own joiners Repairing and matching period joinery, forming new openings in old fabric and making good is routine employed work rather than a chargeable specialist visit. ### 40+ years of mixed stock Four decades across residential, commercial and industrial buildings, including farm buildings, period town properties and modern detached housing. ### Family-run accountability Keep It In Family. David Cain leads delivery, Victoria Kennedy runs project management and design. You deal with the owners. ### In-house estimating Pricing, procurement and administration under one roof, so a question about a figure is answered by whoever produced it. ### Access planned properly Tight historic streets in town and soft ground out of town both need planned deliveries, plant routes and standing. We agree those before starting. Local building conditions ## What Knutsford buildings throw at you The recurring problems here divide cleanly between the historic centre and the surrounding rural parish, and both need identifying before a price means anything. ### Solid-wall damp in period stock Georgian and Victorian walls here manage moisture by breathing. Cement renders, impermeable finishes and injected chemical fixes commonly make damp worse rather than better. ### Barns that were never dwellings Farm buildings have shallow or no foundations, no damp-proofing, permeable walls and roofs built for hay rather than habitation. Converting one is structural work first and finishing work later. ### No mains drainage Many rural plots need package treatment plants or septic systems with proper discharge consent, plus drainage fields sized for the ground's actual percolation rate. ### Clay, peat and standing water Cheshire plain ground varies sharply over short distances. Foundations, soakaways and access surfacing all need designing for what is under that specific site. ### Exposed rural elevations Open ground west of Knutsford gives wind-driven rain a clear run. Pointing, flashings, copings and rainwater goods fail here earlier than in sheltered suburban streets. ### Historic-street access Central WA16 streets are narrow with limited standing and busy footfall. Deliveries, skips and plant need agreed slots, smaller loads and banksmen. Our process ## The same fixed sequence on every Knutsford project - Step 1 ### Enquiry and call You describe the building and what you want from it. We tell you honestly whether it suits us and what we need before pricing. - Step 2 ### Site visit in Knutsford We look at structure, ground, access and drainage, on rural sites, drainage strategy is part of the first conversation, not an afterthought. - Step 3 ### Priced proposal In-house estimating prices the work element by element: groundworks, structure, envelope, services, finishes, externals. - Step 4 ### Programme and pre-start Access routes, deliveries, plant, standing, working hours and any neighbour or conservation constraints agreed up front. - Step 5 ### Build with our own team Directly employed trades work the programme with David or Victoria as your single point of contact. - Step 6 ### Handover and aftercare Joint walk-round, snags closed out, and a contractor still reachable for maintenance afterwards. Detail ## Building in and around Knutsford: what the work really involves Written for Knutsford owners considering a conversion, a period refurbishment or a rural new build, and trying to understand where the cost and the risk actually sit. ### Barn and farm-building conversions Conversions are the most misjudged projects in this area. A barn looks like a shell that needs finishing; in reality it is a structure built for a completely different purpose, usually without foundations worth the name, without a damp-proof membrane, with walls designed to be draughty and a roof designed to be ventilated rather than warm. The order of work matters. Structural stabilisation, underpinning or new foundations where required, a floor build-up with insulation and damp protection, roof structure repair and a considered thermal line come first. Only then do windows, services and finishes make sense. Projects that reverse that order end up dismantling finished work to fix fabric problems. Off-mains drainage is the second big variable. A package treatment plant or septic system needs the right consent, the right discharge point and a drainage field sized for the ground's real percolation rate. Because our own groundworkers do this, drainage is priced and built as part of the project rather than left as a gap between two contractors. - Structural assessment, repair and stabilisation - New foundations, underpinning and insulated floor build-ups - Roof structure repair with a considered thermal and ventilation line - Package treatment plants, septic systems and drainage fields - Long service runs for water, power and data - Joinery, glazing and finishes fitted to irregular openings ### Period property refurbishment in the town Central Knutsford properties carry real value in their fabric and detail, sash windows, panelled doors, cornices, staircases, brick and stone frontages. The work is almost always about renewing performance without erasing that. We strip back, deal with wiring, plumbing, heating and drainage, correct the causes of damp and then finish once. The damp conversations here are the most important. Solid walls need breathable treatment: appropriate lime-based repairs, correct external drainage and ground levels, working rainwater goods and ventilation that actually moves air. Sealing a breathable wall inside a plastic finish reliably produces a worse problem twelve months later. Our directly employed joiners repair rather than default to replacement, which on a period Knutsford property is usually both cheaper over time and better for the building. Where replacement is unavoidable, profiles are matched to what is already there. - Full strip-out and reinstatement of services - Breathable damp correction and external ground-level work - Sash and casement window repair by our own joiners - Structural openings formed in solid-wall construction - Lime and traditional plaster repairs - Roof, flashing, pointing and rainwater renewal ### Extensions and remodelling on Knutsford houses Away from the centre, Knutsford has substantial interwar, post-war and modern detached housing with the usual layout problems: kitchens too small for the way people live, no relationship to the garden, and utility and boot space fitted in as an afterthought, which matters on rural-edge properties where the back door does real work. We look at the whole ground floor rather than just the extension footprint. On period and rural properties the size and detailing of an extension also has to sit comfortably against the existing building, matched brickwork, proportioned openings and roof lines that read as intentional rather than added. Structural openings in older buildings need the load path understood before anything is removed. Where a steel is required, bearings, padstones and fire protection are resolved on paper first. ### New builds and external works on rural plots Rural new builds around Mobberley, Ollerton and Toft begin and end with the ground. Site clearance, excavation, foundations suited to the actual subsoil, drainage designed for real percolation rates, and an access route that carries construction traffic through a wet Cheshire winter without turning into a bog. External works are not decoration on these sites. Driveways and access tracks need proper sub-base and edge restraint; surface water needs somewhere designed to go; retaining structures need designing rather than eyeballing. We build these ourselves, and we would rather set the levels and drainage correctly at the start than return to correct standing water later. ### How Knutsford fits our coverage Knutsford sits west of Alderley Edge and Wilmslow, with Macclesfield and Prestbury to the east and Manchester and Stockport beyond. One directly employed team covers all of it from a single Cheshire base, which keeps travel short and lets labour and materials move between sites the same day. The rural and period work here overlaps closely with what we do in Alderley Edge, Prestbury and the villages around Macclesfield, so the detailing is proven rather than experimental. Knutsford questions ## What Knutsford clients ask first Do you serve Knutsford?Yes. Knutsford, Mobberley, Ollerton, Toft and the surrounding rural parish are within our normal working area, run from our office at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge. How quickly can you get to a property in Knutsford?Knutsford is a short drive west of our Alderley Edge base, so visits are local journeys. Ring 01625 830714 and we will agree a time, we do not advertise fixed response windows we cannot honour on every job. What does a barn conversion cost in Knutsford?We do not quote rates for conversions, because the cost is driven by the structure you actually have: foundations, wall condition, roof, drainage and how far services have to be brought. We price element by element after a site visit so you can see where the money goes. Can you handle drainage on a rural site with no mains connection?Yes. Our own groundworkers install package treatment plants, septic systems and drainage fields sized to the ground's percolation rate, as part of the main contract rather than as a separate package. Do you carry out reactive work in Knutsford?Yes, alongside planned maintenance. Call 01625 830714, describe the problem, and we will tell you what we can do and when. Will you work on a period property in the conservation area?Regularly. Central Knutsford work needs breathable repair strategies, sympathetic detailing and controlled site management on narrow streets, all normal for us. Do you use your own trades or subcontractors?Core trades, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers, are directly employed. Genuine specialists are brought in where required and managed by us. Can you work with our architect and structural engineer?Yes, and we prefer to review buildability before drawings are frozen so that awkward or expensive details are identified early. How do you manage deliveries in the town centre?With planned slots, smaller loads, agreed standing and banksmen where needed. Central WA16 streets do not allow deliveries to be improvised. Who runs the projects?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 Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Prestbury, Macclesfield and across the wider North West, see every area we cover, all services, recent projects, the homepage or contact the office. ## Converting, restoring orbuilding in Knutsford?Start with a site visit. Call the office or send your project details. We will look at the building and the ground, tell you what the work really involves, 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 Knutsford at a time that suits you. Keep It In Family. 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