Custom build

Half the houses we build are not in the catalogue. Send us an architect’s drawings, a planning approval or a sketch on squared paper with measurements, and we will price it on the same frame.

What we need from you

aThe plot address, or the postcode and a pin on a map.
bDrawings if you have them. A PDF from an architect, a planning approval, or measurements on paper all work.
cThe number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and roughly how big you want the rooms you use most.
dWhether you want a shell to finish yourself, or keys and a clean house.
eA budget, even a rough one, so we can say early whether it fits.

What we do with it

Our engineer checks the plan will stand on a column and beam frame without awkward transfer beams. Where it would not, we suggest moving a wall rather than adding steel, and show you both prices.

If there is no planning yet, we draw it and apply for you; the £2,400 design fee comes off the build price if you go ahead. If there is planning, we price the approved drawings and flag anything that will cost more than it looks.

You get a written figure within a week of the site visit, with every allowance written down so you can compare it line by line.

How a figure is put together

A worked example: a two storey, three bedroom house of 128 m² from a client’s own plans, turnkey, on a sloping plot in Maghull.

Turnkey rate, 128 m² at £1,780£227,840

Stepped foundation for a 1.1 m fall across the plot£6,350

Glazed corner, 4.8 m, in place of two standard windows£4,920

Longer drainage run to the sewer in the lane£2,780

Fixed price£241,890

Design fee, already paidminus £2,400

Left to pay, in stages£239,490

New build houses are zero rated for VAT. Kitchens and bathrooms are priced at a set allowance on turnkey builds; spend more or less and the figure moves by the difference.

What a concrete frame will and will not do

Clear spans up to 7 metres without a column in the room
Cantilevers of a metre or more on the first floor
Flat roofs you can walk on, or put a garden on
Big openings in the back wall with a slim lintel

Curved walls at a sensible price
More than three storeys on a domestic plot
Basements on high groundwater without a separate survey
Timber cladding that is not fixed back to battens and a cavity

Send your plans for a price Or start from a ready design

Est. 1998