House Extensions in Jarrow

Foundations are dug and inspected before anything is poured. If the inspector requires a deeper or wider foundation than allowed for, we price the extra work openly and show you the reason rather than absorbing it quietly into the final bill.

Yes. We build to approved drawings routinely and will raise anything that looks impractical to build before work starts rather than halfway through, which is usually cheaper for everyone.

Jarrow comes under South Tyneside Council for both planning and building control. That is where a building regulations application is made and where the inspector who signs the work off comes from. Permitted development limits and a full building regulations approval is what they will be looking for.

They can. Riverside Jarrow carries made ground from a century of shipbuilding and industry alongside the wider coalfield legacy, so what is under a plot near the river is genuinely less predictable than it looks. We raise it at the quote stage rather than after the digger arrives, so you know whether an investigation or an assessment is likely to be needed.

Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for an agreed period which we confirm in writing before work starts, alongside the manufacturer warranties on the materials used.

All of them. Around St Pauls and Primrose the stock is mostly terraced streets through the town centre and toward the river, and further out Jarrow has post war and later estates out toward Primrose and Monkton. The right approach depends far more on the age and construction of the individual property than on the town.

Possibly, depending on exactly where the property sits. South Tyneside Council is the authority for both planning and building control here, and the area around St Pauls carries heritage constraints that do not apply on a post war estate a mile inland. If your property is affected, the design is shaped around that from the start rather than revised afterwards.

Yes. Where an extension crosses or sits near a public sewer we deal with the build over agreement, and existing drainage is diverted or rebuilt as the approved drawings require.

We match as closely as the available brick allows and take samples before ordering. On older property an exact match is often impossible, so the usual approach is to choose the closest available brick and use a mortar mix and joint profile that lets the two read together.

Yes. Alongside Jarrow we regularly carry out house extensions in Hebburn, Boldon Colliery, Felling and across the wider North East, working from our base in Blaydon-on-Tyne.