Builders in North Watford

The housing here is the classic north Watford mix: Victorian and Edwardian terraces around the older parts of St Albans Road, a great deal of 1930s semi-detached housing on the streets running off it, and post-war estates filling in behind. The terraces bring their own set of challenges — narrow plots, shared party walls, and rear extensions where access is genuinely tight — while the semis are among the best-value extension and loft conversion candidates in the whole town.

It is also an area where people tend to stay. That means we do a lot of second-phase work: a family that extended ten years ago now wants the loft done, or the kitchen and bathroom brought up to the standard of the rest of the house.

North Watford's terraces have beautiful proportions and terrible plumbing. The rear extensions on these houses are usually shallower than the property deserves, the bathrooms are often still where the original Victorian layout put them, and the loft is rarely touched. The 1930s semis off St Albans Road and Bushey Mill Lane are a different proposition altogether — wide enough at the rear for a serious single-storey extension and steep enough in the roof for a proper loft conversion, which is why we do so many of both.