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 - WilmslowTwo miles from our office # Building Contractors InWilmslow, Delivered ByOur Own Trades Extensions, new builds, refurbishment and maintenance across Wilmslow, Handforth, Styal, Lindow and Fulshaw, run from our office two miles away in Alderley Edge, with joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers on our own books rather than booked in job by job. Request an Estimate01625 830714 Family-run with more than 40 years in construction. No-obligation site visit in Wilmslow, you meet the team who will build the work. 2 miles From our Alderley Edge office to Wilmslow town centre. 40+ years Residential, commercial and industrial construction experience. Directly employed Core trades on our own payroll, not bought in per project. One contact David Cain on delivery, Victoria Kennedy on project management and design. Working in Wilmslow ## Wilmslow work is local work for us, not a job we drive across the region to reach Wilmslow starts roughly where Alderley Edge finishes. From 1 London Road it is a short run up the A34 to Fulshaw, the town centre, Lindow and out towards Styal and Handforth. That closeness is the whole practical argument for using us here: a survey visit is a diary slot rather than a half-day expedition, a forgotten detail can be looked at the same afternoon, and our own trades arrive fresh rather than after an hour of motorway. Wilmslow's housing stock is broader than most people assume. There are substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas around the older core and along the Alderley Road corridor, large interwar and post-war detached houses through Fulshaw and Lindow, dense 1960s to 1980s estate housing towards Handforth, apartment conversions and new-build blocks close to the station, and farm buildings and rural properties out towards Styal and Morley Green. Each demands a different approach to structure, insulation and services. The requests that repeat here are extensions and internal reorganisation on family houses that have run out of usable ground floor, whole-house refurbishment on older stock where the services have aged out, garage and outbuilding conversions to create home offices and annexes, and replacement dwellings where the plot is worth more than the house standing on it. We also carry out a steady volume of planned maintenance for owners of large properties who would rather deal with one accountable contractor. Commuter-belt Wilmslow also brings a specific practical constraint: people are working from home, and often working from home in the room next to the one being built. Programme, noise, dust protection and access sequencing matter as much as workmanship. We agree those before starting rather than negotiating them once the walls are open. Wilmslow at a glance Distance from baseRoughly two miles from our Alderley Edge office, Fulshaw, Lindow, Styal, Handforth and Morley Green all sit inside our normal working patch. Property typesVictorian and Edwardian villas, interwar and post-war detached, 1960s–80s estates, station-area apartments, rural properties towards Styal. Most requestedExtensions and remodelling, whole-house refurbishment, garage and outbuilding conversions, external works, maintenance. Site constraintsHome-working households, school-run traffic on Alderley and Manchester Road, tight estate access, mature trees on older plots. Postcodes covered: SK9 1, SK9 2, SK9 3, SK9 4, SK9 5, SK9 6 Services in Wilmslow ## Everything we build for Wilmslow clients, under one contract ### Extensions & remodelling in Wilmslow Ground-floor and two-storey extensions combined with internal reorganisation, so the whole house works rather than just the new part. View service ### New builds Replacement dwellings and bespoke homes on Wilmslow plots, taken from site clearance through to handover by one team. View service ### Refurbishment & restoration Ageing services, damp, tired joinery and cold fabric put right in one programme instead of five separate visits. View service ### Conversions Garages, outbuildings and farm buildings turned into warm, properly serviced offices, annexes and living space. View service ### External works & landscaping Driveways, drainage, retaining walls and hard landscaping built to survive standing water and Cheshire winters. View service ### Maintenance Planned and reactive maintenance so large Wilmslow properties have one number to call, not six. 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 Wilmslow ## Close enough to be useful, structured enough to be reliable Wilmslow has no shortage of builders. The difference here is who is actually on your site, how far they travelled, and who answers when you ring. ### Two miles, not two counties Our base is in Alderley Edge. Visits, deliveries and problem-solving in Wilmslow do not depend on freeing a van from somewhere else in the North West. ### Employed trades on site Joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers are directly employed, so the same people carry your detail from foundation to finish. ### Four decades of this stock Over 40 years across residential, commercial and industrial buildings, including the interwar, post-war and estate housing that dominates Wilmslow. ### Family-run accountability Keep It In Family. David Cain leads the build; Victoria Kennedy runs project management and design. You deal with owners. ### In-house estimating Estimating, procurement and administration sit under one roof, so a pricing question gets an answer from whoever priced it. ### Built around home working Dust protection, noise-heavy sequencing and access are planned around households who are working and schooling at home. Local building conditions ## The building problems Wilmslow properties keep producing These are the recurring issues behind Wilmslow enquiries. They come from the age spread of the housing, the ground it sits on, and the exposure of this part of Cheshire. ### Post-war extensions built badly Many Wilmslow houses already carry a 1970s or 1980s extension with shallow foundations, minimal insulation and a flat roof at the end of its life. Extending again usually means correcting that first. ### Poor thermal performance Interwar and early post-war houses here have thin or empty cavities and single-glazed openings. Improving them needs a fabric-first sequence, or condensation simply moves somewhere less visible. ### Standing water and clay Ground around Lindow and the lower Bollin side holds water. Foundations, soakaways and drainage runs need designing for saturated ground, not average ground. ### River Bollin and surface water Properties near the Bollin corridor have to take surface-water management seriously. Drainage strategy is part of the build, not an afterthought at the landscaping stage. ### Mature trees on older plots Root protection areas and clay shrinkage risk affect foundation design on the larger Victorian and Edwardian plots along the Alderley Road corridor. ### Access on estate roads Handforth and the later estates have narrow roads, parked cars and short driveways. Plant, skips and deliveries need planning to avoid stalling a programme. Our process ## The same fixed sequence on every Wilmslow project - Step 1 ### Enquiry and call You tell us what you want to achieve. We say plainly whether the project suits our team and what we need in order to price it. - Step 2 ### Site visit in Wilmslow We attend the property, assess access, structure, drainage and constraints, and discuss how the finished space needs to work. - Step 3 ### Priced proposal Our in-house estimators produce an element-by-element price so you can see exactly where the money sits. - Step 4 ### Programme and pre-start Sequence, working hours, deliveries, skip position, parking and dust protection agreed before day one. - Step 5 ### Build with our own team Directly employed trades deliver 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 two miles away if anything needs attention later. Detail ## What building work in Wilmslow actually involves A longer read for Wilmslow owners weighing up an extension, a refurbishment or a rebuild, written around the specific conditions here rather than generic advice. ### Extensions on Wilmslow family houses The classic Wilmslow project is a 1930s to 1970s detached house with decent bones, a small dark kitchen at the back, a garage that has become storage, and a garden the house barely acknowledges. The instinct is to add a large rear extension. The better result usually comes from a slightly smaller extension combined with genuine internal change: absorbing the garage, relocating the utility, opening the kitchen to the garden and rethinking where the front door delivers you. The technical work sits in the junctions. Tying a new flat or shallow-pitch roof into an existing eaves line, keeping the new floor level flush with the old, running drainage around an existing manhole, and getting a structural opening that carries the load without dropping the ceiling height are the details that separate a build that looks original from one that looks bolted on. Where a previous extension is being extended or altered, we investigate before pricing. Shallow footings, an unventilated flat roof or a cavity that was never insulated all change the scope. We would rather tell you that at proposal stage than discover it in week three. - Rear, side and wrap-around extensions - Two-storey extensions where foundations and drainage allow - Garage absorption and integral garage conversion - Structural openings, steels and flush floor junctions - Kitchen, utility and boot-room reconfiguration - Correcting undersized or failing earlier extensions ### Refurbishment and whole-house upgrades A lot of Wilmslow housing has arrived at the point where the structure is fine and everything else is not: original wiring circuits, a boiler on borrowed time, cast or early plastic drainage, cold solid floors and windows that have failed at the seals. Doing that piecemeal costs more overall, because each trade disturbs the finish left by the last one. A single refurbishment programme lets us strip back, deal with fabric and services together, correct the causes of damp rather than covering the stains, then decorate once. Our own joiners handle staircases, doors, skirtings and windows, matching existing profiles where a client wants the character kept. Where clients are improving thermal performance we work fabric first, insulation continuity, airtightness, glazing and ventilation, before anyone specifies new plant. Insulating without ventilating is one of the most common ways to turn a cold house into a damp one. - Full strip-out and reinstatement - Rewiring, heating and drainage renewal - Damp diagnosis and correction of causes - Joinery repair and matched replacement in-house - Insulation, airtightness and ventilation strategy - Plastering, decoration and final finishes ### Conversions: garages, outbuildings and rural buildings Wilmslow generates steady demand for proper home offices, annexes and gyms, driven by the number of households who work from home several days a week. Garages, detached outbuildings and, on the Styal and Morley Green fringe, redundant farm buildings are the usual candidates. The difference between a converted garage that gets used all year and one that becomes storage again is entirely in the specification: floor build-up and damp-proofing, insulation continuity at the junction with the existing structure, glazing and ventilation, heating, and enough power and data provision for the actual use. We price those properly rather than lining a cold box with plasterboard. Rural building conversions carry more work again, structural assessment, drainage that may need a package treatment plant, and services brought from some distance. We handle the groundworks and drainage ourselves, which is usually where these projects go wrong when they are split between contractors. ### New builds and replacement dwellings in Wilmslow Where a client has bought for the plot rather than the property, the project becomes demolition, service disconnection, tree protection, groundworks and then a full new build. We start at ground level with clearance, excavation, drainage and foundations, then carry the build through superstructure, roof, first fix, plaster, second fix, decoration and external works. We work to clients' architects and engineers and review buildability early. On tighter Wilmslow plots the honest conversation is often about what the access will physically allow: crane positions, delivery sizes, and where materials can be stored without blocking the road. ### Wilmslow within our wider coverage Wilmslow sits directly north of Alderley Edge, with Handforth and Bramhall to the east, Stockport and Manchester beyond, and Knutsford to the west. Because one directly employed team covers all of it from a single Cheshire base, labour and materials can move between sites quickly and a site issue does not wait for a subcontractor's availability. The same building stock repeats across those areas, so the detailing we have worked out on interwar and post-war houses here applies directly in Bramhall, Handforth and Stockport, while the period and rural work overlaps with Alderley Edge, Prestbury and Knutsford. Wilmslow questions ## What Wilmslow clients ask first Do you serve Wilmslow?Yes, Wilmslow is one of our core areas, including Fulshaw, Lindow, Styal, Morley Green and Handforth. Our office is at 1 London Road, Alderley Edge, about two miles away. How fast can you reach a property in Wilmslow?We are roughly two miles from Wilmslow town centre, so visits are short journeys rather than regional travel. Call 01625 830714 and we will agree a time; we do not advertise guaranteed response windows we cannot promise for every job. What do extensions and building work cost in Wilmslow?We do not publish prices, because cost depends on access, structure, ground conditions and specification. Every proposal is priced in-house and broken down by element so you can see the effect of any change you make. Do you carry out emergency or reactive work in Wilmslow?Yes, alongside planned maintenance. Ring the office on 01625 830714, describe what has happened, and we will tell you immediately what we can do and when. Can you extend a house that already has an extension?Frequently. We investigate the existing structure first, footing depth, roof construction, insulation and drainage, because that often changes the scope, and we would rather price it accurately than discover it mid-build. Will the same team be on site throughout?Our core trades are directly employed, so the same joiners, bricklayers, plasterers and groundworkers move through the programme. Specialist packages are brought in only where genuinely specialist, and we manage them. Can you work around us working from home?Yes. Noise-heavy phases, dust protection, access routes and working hours are agreed at pre-start, which matters on most Wilmslow projects. Do you work with our architect and engineer?Yes. We work to existing design teams and review buildability before drawings are frozen so awkward details are flagged early. Do you take on smaller projects in Wilmslow?Yes. Planned and reactive maintenance sits alongside our larger work, and it is often how a longer client relationship begins. 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 Alderley Edge, Bramhall, Knutsford, Stockport and across the wider North West, see every area we cover, all services, recent projects, the homepage or contact the office. ## Planning work in Wilmslow?Get a priced proposalfrom a local team. Call the office or send your project details. We will visit, tell you honestly what the job 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 Wilmslow at a time that suits you. Keep It In Family. 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