Homebuilding & Renovating

Adding the finishing touches to our extension

With our extension officially signed off by building control, we can now focus on completing the decoration and finishing the interior joinery to make our new addition fully habitable. We’re also due to pay the balance of the retention money to the main contractor who originally built the shell of the extension.

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