Serving Swindon since 1988
Bricklayers & General
Builders in Swindon,
handled by a three-person family team.
From Old Town Victorian terraces to newer estates in Wichelstowe and Taw Hill, we've been building, extending and repairing homes across Swindon for four decades: no sales team, just Dale and his two sons on the tools.
Free site visit. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. £5m public liability. Enquiries answered within one working day.
We serve Swindon
Yes, we cover the whole of Swindon.
We're based in Highworth, 15–25 minutes from most Swindon postcodes, and we're already on jobs across the town most weeks. That means when your job runs, we're not travelling from another county: we're up the road.
Response times to Swindon
Enquiries from Swindon are typically answered the same working day, with a free site visit booked within the week. Written estimates follow inside 3–5 working days.
Property types in Swindon
Swindon's housing stock is mixed. We work regularly on Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Old Town and Rodbourne, 1930s bays across Kingshill and Even Swindon, 1960s–1980s estates in Park North, Park South, Nythe, Covingham and Eldene, and the newer developments at Wichelstowe, Redhouse, Taw Hill and East Wichel.
Common Swindon jobs
The common Swindon jobs on our books: single-storey rear extensions, garden and boundary walls (a lot of them in that soft Wiltshire red brick), driveway aprons, re-pointing on older terraces, and full pitched re-roofs where the original 1960s tile is finally giving up.
Services available in Swindon
The full family-run trade list, in Swindon.
Every service below is handled by the same three-person family team.
Extensions in Swindon
Full home extensions handled start to finish: groundworks, brickwork, roofing, plastering.
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Bricklaying in Swindon
Fair-faced brickwork, garden walls, arches and repairs: built by the family that's been doing it since 1988.
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Pitched Roofing in Swindon
Tiled and slated pitched roofs: repairs and full re-roofs. (We don't take on flat roofing.)
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Plastering & Render in Swindon
Smooth internal plastering and clean external render by the same three-person family team.
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Patios & Hard Landscaping in Swindon
Patios, garden walls, turfing, decking and fencing: the outdoor build, handled in-house.
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Guttering & Fascias in Swindon
Replacement guttering, fascias and soffits to keep the water off the brickwork where it belongs.
Read moreWhy choose us in Swindon
Why Swindon homeowners keep coming back.
We're not the cheapest quote you'll get in Swindon, and we're not trying to be. We're the one that turns up, does what we said we'd do, and doesn't disappear when the render goes wrong on the return.
Four decades on Swindon streets.
Dale started laying brick in 1988. There's not much on a Swindon estate house: cavity wall, lintel over a door, a wall foundation on clay: that we haven't seen a hundred times.
Familiar with Swindon Building Control.
Extensions, structural openings and load-bearing work in Swindon Borough go through Swindon Building Control. Sign-off sits between you and them directly, but we've worked to their standards for years and know what they'll ask for at each inspection stage.
Same three faces, start to finish.
The three people who quote your Swindon job are the three people who do it. Same three faces every day, start to finish.
Local building issues
The problems we see most often in Swindon.
Some issues aren't accidents: they're what happens when a certain type of house gets to a certain age in this part of Wiltshire.
Failed cement pointing on Old Town terraces.
Late-19th-century terraces in Old Town were built with soft lime mortar. When they get re-pointed with modern cement, the mortar becomes harder than the brick and the brick face starts to spall. We rake out and re-point in a matched lime mix.
Cracked 1960s render on Park estates.
The pebbledash and sand-and-cement render on estate housing from the 60s and 70s is now past its serviceable life. Fine map-cracking lets water in, freeze-thaw does the rest. We hack off, re-mesh and re-render properly.
Sagging concrete-tile roofs.
A lot of Swindon's post-war housing is running on original heavy concrete tiles that were never designed to last this long. Rafters bow, ridges dip, felt fails. We do full strip-and-relay pitched re-roofs: we don't do flat roofing.
Garden walls with no proper foundation.
Boundary walls thrown up in the 80s on a shallow strip footing are now leaning. We take down, dig a proper concrete foundation, and rebuild in matching brick with a stone or brick coping.
In depth
The Swindon patch, in detail.
Swindon is a big town with a lot of different building traditions layered on top of each other. Old Town, above the railway cutting, is Victorian and Edwardian: soft red brick, lime mortar, timber sash windows, and a lot of Bath stone detailing on the better houses. New Town, below the cutting, is largely Great Western Railway workers' housing from the mid-19th century onwards, again in brick and lime. Get out to the post-war estates: Penhill, Park, Walcot, Nythe, Covingham: and you're into different brick, different mortar mix, machine-made bricks and stiff cement pointing. The northern expansion at Abbey Meads, Haydon Wick, St Andrews Ridge and Taw Hill is late-90s and 2000s stock. The southern expansion at Wichelstowe and East Wichel is still going up. We work across all of it.
That mix matters because the right way to repair a wall in Rodbourne is not the same as the right way to repair a wall in Redhouse. A rendered gable in Park needs a different render mix from a Victorian bay in Old Town. A garden wall between a 70s bungalow and a 2010 townhouse needs a foundation that copes with two very different ground movements. Forty years on the tools in this town means we're not guessing which one you've got.
Practically speaking, most of our Swindon work is estimates within the week, jobs booked in weeks not months, and staged payments, nothing due before we start. We work Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm as standard, with Saturday availability for smaller jobs by arrangement. We do not do gas, we do not do electrical, we do not do soft landscaping and we do not do flat roofing. If your job crosses into any of those trades we'll tell you at the site visit and point you to someone reliable.
Our process
The same four-step process, whether you're in Swindon or up the road.
Repeatable, honest, and identical for every job: a garden wall or a full extension.
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Free site visit
We come out to your Swindon property, walk the job with you and answer questions in person.
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Written estimate in 3–5 days
Itemised, in writing, with staged payments set out. No verbal quotes.
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Booked in and started
Materials sourced, timing agreed. The same three-person team on site from day one.
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Snagged and handed over
Site cleared, snag-list walked with you, aftercare explained. We stay reachable after the job.
Recent works
Recent projects in and around Swindon.
Nearby areas
Also serving these Wiltshire towns and villages.
Do you cover the whole of Swindon?
Yes: SN1 through SN5, plus SN25 and SN26 in the north, and we regularly work in Wroughton, Wanborough and Chiseldon on the edges.
How fast can you get to a Swindon job?
For emergency structural or storm damage in Swindon we aim to attend within 24 hours from Highworth. For quoted work, site visits are usually booked within the same week.
What does a typical extension cost in Swindon?
Every job is priced from a site visit, there is no meaningful published rate for a real extension. You'll get a written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days after we've seen the site, with staged payments so nothing is due before we start.
Do you handle building control submissions for Swindon Borough?
Building control sign-off sits between you and Swindon Building Control directly, we don't manage the submission on your behalf. On site we give the inspector what they need at each stage and guide you through the process.
Do you work weekends in Swindon?
Our standard hours are Monday to Friday 8am–5pm. Saturday work is available for smaller jobs by arrangement: useful for jobs like a garden wall or a bit of pointing that don't warrant a full weekday crew.
Are you insured to work on Swindon housing?
Yes: £5,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability. Certificates are available on request before work starts.
Do you do flat roofing on Swindon extensions?
No. We do pitched tiled and slated roofing only. If your extension design has a flat roof, we'll build the structure and coordinate a specialist flat-roofer for the covering.
Do you cover villages near Swindon like Wroughton, Wanborough or Chiseldon?
Yes, anything within a sensible drive of Highworth is on the patch. Ring Dale and we'll confirm.
Ready when you are
Get a free estimate for your Swindon job.
Free site visit at a time that suits. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.