Frilford Extension

The starting point was a tired single-storey outbuilding tacked onto the side of a rendered cottage. The brief was to take it down cleanly and replace it with a properly built ground-floor extension that ties into the original house.

We brought in a tracked excavator with a breaker attachment to drop the old structure in a controlled sequence — protecting the cottage wall, the neighbouring boundary and the mature trees overhead — then cleared the slab and muck-away.

With the site stripped, we set out and dug new drainage runs across the garden, bedding the 110mm runs on pea shingle with proper falls back to the existing manholes and a fresh inspection chamber.

From there it was deep-fill strip foundations, blockwork up to DPC with ventilated airbricks and a brick-on-edge plinth — the slab and shell ready to go.