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 - MacclesfieldEast towards the hills # Building Contractors InMacclesfield, From MillTerraces To Hill Farms Extensions, refurbishment, conversions and new builds across Macclesfield, Bollington, Rainow, Sutton, Broken Cross and Tytherington, delivered by a directly employed team who understand stone, exposure and hillside ground rather than treating every property the same. Request an Estimate01625 830714 Family-run in Alderley Edge with more than 40 years in construction. No-obligation site visit in Macclesfield. 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 Macclesfield ## Macclesfield has the widest range of building stock we work on anywhere Macclesfield is a short run east from our Alderley Edge office, and it is the most varied part of our patch by a wide margin. In the space of two miles you move from dense Victorian mill terraces and converted silk-industry buildings in the town centre, through interwar and post-war suburban housing at Broken Cross, Hurdsfield and Tytherington, to substantial detached houses on the higher ground, and then into genuine hill country at Rainow, Sutton, Langley and the Bollington fringe where stone construction and severe exposure change the rules. That variety means the right technical answer changes street by street. A mill terrace has solid stone or brick walls, no cavity, shared party structures, a small footprint and often a rear yard with no vehicle access at all. A 1960s house at Broken Cross has cavity walls, a shallow-pitch roof and dated services. A stone farmhouse above Rainow has metre-thick walls, damp driven through by weather off the hills, and drainage that goes into the ground rather than a sewer. Applying one specification across all three produces failures. The work we are asked for follows those bands. In town: refurbishment of terraces and mill conversions, structural alterations, loft and rear alterations where access allows, and commercial fit-out and maintenance. In the suburbs: extensions, garage conversions, remodelling and full refurbishment. On the hills: stone repair, roof and pointing work, extensions built to survive exposure, barn and outbuilding conversions, groundworks, drainage and retaining structures. Macclesfield also has the steepest ground we build on. Sloping sites change everything: foundation stepping, retaining structures, surface-water routing, access for plant and material handling. Those are engineering decisions, and they need to be made before a price is trusted rather than discovered when a digger arrives. Macclesfield at a glance Distance from baseA short drive east of our Alderley Edge office, covering the town, Bollington, Rainow, Sutton, Tytherington and Broken Cross. Property typesVictorian mill terraces, converted silk-mill buildings, interwar and post-war suburban housing, large detached stock, stone farmhouses and barns. Most requestedRefurbishment, extensions and remodelling, conversions, roof and stone repair, groundworks and retaining structures. Site constraintsSteep hillside plots, terraces with no rear vehicle access, severe weather exposure above the town, narrow lanes towards Rainow and Langley. Postcodes covered: SK10 1, SK10 2, SK10 3, SK11 6, SK11 7, SK11 8 Services in Macclesfield ## Everything we build for Macclesfield clients, under one contract ### Refurbishment & restoration Mill terraces, stone properties and tired suburban houses renewed properly: services, damp and fabric handled in one programme. View service ### Extensions & remodelling Extensions detailed for sloping, exposed sites, combined with internal changes that fix how the whole house works. View service ### Conversions Barns, outbuildings, mill space and garages converted into warm, dry, properly serviced accommodation. View service ### New builds Bespoke homes and replacement dwellings on Macclesfield plots, including stepped foundations on sloping ground. View service ### External works & landscaping Retaining walls, driveways, hillside drainage and surface-water management built to hold on steep ground. View service ### Maintenance Planned and reactive maintenance for exposed properties where roofs, pointing and rainwater goods take a beating. 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 Macclesfield ## A team that treats a stone hill farm and a mill terrace as different problems Macclesfield punishes generic specifications. The value we bring is knowing which construction type you have and pricing the work that type actually needs. ### Four decades of mixed stock Over 40 years across residential, commercial and industrial buildings, from solid-wall terraces to modern detached housing and rural stone. ### Employed trades throughout Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers on our own payroll, so stonework, joinery repair and groundworks are core skills rather than bought-in packages. ### Groundworks for sloping sites In-house groundworkers handle stepped foundations, retaining structures and hillside drainage, the parts of a Macclesfield job most likely to go wrong. ### In-house estimating Pricing and procurement sit with us, so scope changes on a difficult site are re-priced quickly and transparently. ### Family-run accountability Keep It In Family. David Cain leads delivery; Victoria Kennedy runs project management and design. ### Access planned for terraces Where there is no rear access we plan material handling, skip position and waste removal in advance instead of blocking a street. Local building conditions ## What goes wrong in Macclesfield buildings These issues recur across the town and the hills. Most are consequences of construction type, ground slope and exposure rather than neglect. ### Wind-driven rain on exposed elevations Above the town and out towards Rainow, weather off the hills drives moisture through pointing, copings, flashings and single-skin detailing that would survive in a sheltered suburb. ### Solid stone and brick walls Mill terraces and hill properties have no cavity. Insulating internally without addressing moisture movement and ventilation moves the damp rather than removing it. ### Sloping-site water management On hillside plots, water arrives from uphill. Without designed interception, surface-water routing and retaining drainage, it ends up against or under the building. ### Retaining structures at the end of life Older stone and mass-concrete retaining walls on stepped Macclesfield gardens bulge and fail. They need designing and rebuilding, not patching. ### Terraces with no rear access Many town terraces can only be reached through the house or along a shared alley, which changes how spoil, materials and plant are handled and priced. ### Roofs and rainwater under load Steeper pitches, higher rainfall and exposure mean slate, flashing and gutter failures show up sooner here, and cause internal damage faster. Our process ## The same fixed sequence on every Macclesfield project - Step 1 ### Enquiry and call You describe the property and the aim. We say honestly whether it suits our team and what we need to price it. - Step 2 ### Site visit in Macclesfield We assess construction type, exposure, slope, drainage and access, all four change the specification here. - Step 3 ### Priced proposal In-house estimating prices the work element by element, including groundworks and retaining work rather than hiding them in a lump sum. - Step 4 ### Programme and pre-start Access, material handling, plant, skips, working hours and neighbour notice 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, and continued availability for maintenance on an exposed property. Detail ## Building in Macclesfield: construction type decides everything A practical read for owners in the town, the suburbs and the hills, because the same project brief produces three different builds depending on where the property sits. ### Mill terraces and town-centre properties Macclesfield's terraces were built for silk-industry workers: small footprints, solid walls, tight party structures, direct-to-pavement front doors and rear yards with limited or no vehicle access. They are usually structurally sound and almost always thermally poor, with services long past their design life. Refurbishing one well means accepting the construction for what it is. Internal insulation has to be detailed with moisture movement and ventilation in mind, because a sealed solid wall produces condensation at the coldest junctions. Where floors are being renewed, damp protection and insulation depth have to be resolved against existing threshold and stair levels rather than assumed. Structural work in terraces is party-wall work. Removing a chimney breast or forming a wider opening affects the neighbouring property, so load paths, temporary support and notice all need handling properly rather than optimistically. - Full refurbishment and service renewal - Internal insulation detailed for moisture movement - Structural openings and chimney-breast removal with proper support - Floor renewal with damp protection and insulation - Roof, slate, flashing and rainwater repair - Material handling where there is no rear access ### Suburban extensions and remodelling Around Tytherington, Broken Cross, Hurdsfield and Upton Priory the stock is mostly interwar to late-twentieth-century, with cavity walls, adequate structure and layouts that no longer match how families use a house. Extensions here are straightforward compared with the hills, provided drainage and existing foundation depth are checked properly first. We look at the full ground floor before agreeing a footprint. Absorbing a garage, relocating a utility, opening a kitchen towards the garden and reconsidering circulation often produces more usable gain than a larger extension alone. Sloping rear gardens, common in Macclesfield, also mean the level of a new floor and the retaining or step arrangement outside have to be designed together. Where an existing extension is being altered, we investigate footings, roof construction and insulation before pricing, because those regularly change the scope of the work. - Rear, side and wrap-around extensions - Garage absorption and conversion - Internal reorganisation and structural openings - Level changes and retaining work on sloping gardens - Drainage diversion and manhole relocation - Full re-roofing and roofline alterations ### Stone properties, barns and hill sites Above the town, Rainow, Sutton, Langley, Bollington's higher ground, construction changes to stone, exposure becomes severe, and drainage is frequently off-mains. The building physics are different: thick permeable walls that manage moisture by breathing, roofs taking sustained wind-driven rain, and ground that delivers water from uphill all year. Repairs here have to be compatible with the original construction. Cement pointing on soft stone, impermeable renders and sealed internal finishes are the three most common causes of accelerated damage we are called to correct. Lime-based repair, correct rainwater disposal and honest attention to ground levels do more for these buildings than any interior treatment. Barn and outbuilding conversions on hill sites combine all of that with structural work, new foundations or underpinning, insulated floor build-ups, package treatment drainage and long service runs. Our own groundworkers handle the ground and drainage side, which keeps the riskiest part of the project inside one contract. ### Groundworks, retaining structures and drainage On steep Macclesfield sites the groundworks package often determines whether the finished project performs. Stepped foundations, designed retaining walls with proper drainage behind them, interception of uphill surface water, and driveways with sub-base and edge restraint able to take vehicles on a gradient. We price and build these ourselves. That matters because retaining and drainage work is where lump-sum quotes hide risk: a wall built without drainage behind it will move, and a driveway laid without a designed water route will shed that water at the building. ### Macclesfield within our coverage Macclesfield sits east of Alderley Edge and Prestbury, with Wilmslow and Knutsford to the north and west and Stockport and Manchester beyond. One directly employed team covers the whole area from our Cheshire base, so labour and materials move between sites without long travel. The stone and rural work here overlaps with Prestbury and the Knutsford rural fringe, while the suburban extension and refurbishment work is the same as we deliver in Wilmslow and Bramhall, proven detailing rather than a first attempt. Macclesfield questions ## What Macclesfield clients ask first Do you serve Macclesfield?Yes, the town plus Bollington, Rainow, Sutton, Langley, Tytherington, Hurdsfield and Broken Cross. Our office is at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge, a short drive west. How fast can you reach a property in Macclesfield?Macclesfield is a short journey from our Alderley Edge base, so visits are local rather than regional. Call 01625 830714 to arrange a time; we do not publish guaranteed response windows we cannot honour on every job. What does building work cost in Macclesfield?There is no useful average here, because a mill terrace, a suburban extension and a hillside stone property carry very different costs. We survey, then price element by element so you can see where the money sits. Do you handle urgent roof or water ingress problems?Yes. Exposed Macclesfield properties suffer roof, flashing and rainwater failures. Ring 01625 830714, describe the problem, and we will tell you what we can do and when. Can you build on a steeply sloping site?Yes. Our own groundworkers handle stepped foundations, designed retaining structures and hillside drainage, which is the part of a sloping-site project most likely to fail if it is sublet. Do you work on stone properties above the town?Regularly. Stone construction needs breathable, compatible repair, lime-based work, correct rainwater disposal and attention to ground levels rather than sealing the building up. Can you work in a terrace with no rear access?Yes, and we plan it before starting: material handling routes, protection through the property, skip or grab position and waste removal are all agreed at pre-start. Do you use your own trades?Core trades, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers, are directly employed. Genuine specialist packages are brought in where needed and managed by us. Will you work to our architect's drawings?Yes, and we review buildability early so details that are slow or expensive on an exposed or sloping site are flagged before drawings are frozen. Who will I deal with?KIIF is family-run, Keep It In Family. David Cain is Project Director; Victoria Kennedy leads project management and design. We also work in Prestbury, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Knutsford and across the wider North West, see every area we cover, all services, recent projects, the homepage or contact the office. ## Building in Macclesfield?Get a price from a teamwho knows the ground. Call the office or send your project details. We will visit, identify what your construction type actually needs, and price the work honestly. 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 Macclesfield at a time that suits you. Keep It In Family. 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