The team
A carpenter who has spent nearly twenty years in other people's roofs, and a technologist who draws what actually gets built.
Founder and head carpenter
Dai served his time as a roofing carpenter in Merthyr and started doing lofts in 2008, when the builders who employed him kept getting them wrong. He has spent nearly twenty years in other people's roof spaces and he can tell a good deal from the smell of a loft and the sag of a purlin.
He does most of the first surveys himself, and he will happily climb into yours on a Saturday morning with a torch.
Design and building regulations
Bethan trained as an architectural technologist and spent seven years at a Cardiff practice before she got tired of drawing things that builders would change on site. She now draws the things they actually build, works with our structural engineer, and deals with building control and the party wall notices.
She will sit at your kitchen table and draw three stair positions by hand. She is also the one who says no, kindly, and writes down why.
The paperwork
Every job is inspected by the council or an approved inspector, and you get the completion certificate. We will not work without one.
£5 million public liability and a ten-year insurance-backed guarantee on structure. Policy references here are placeholders.
Structural calculations by a chartered engineer, with their registration in your folder. Number on this demonstration site: IStructE-000000 (placeholder).
Electrics by a registered electrician with a certificate at the end; gas work by a Gas Safe engineer. Registration numbers here are placeholders.
Measure joist to ridge and try the checker. Then book a free survey: Dai or Bethan will tell you what is possible, what it costs, and whether you should leave it alone.