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New-Build Waterproof Basement Construction.
Expert assistance for self builders and small builders throughout the UK.
- Basements built completely waterproof from the start.
- For the cheapest possible waterproof basement construction cost.
- Experience of over 50 new-build domestic basements in the UK.
Please note I do not create basements under existing buildings or waterproof existing cellars.
New-build means the basement is built before a structure is built above; this may be a new detached dwelling or an extension to something already there.
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- The emphasis throughout my work is to treat your basement as a part of your whole house project - with consideration and thought for what happens after my work is finished. This makes me very different to sub contractors and of much more interest to self builders building their own home who want ease, not problems, later.
- Most basement structures can be completed for £250 per square metre of basement floor slab and £250 per square metre of basement walls. This is sufficient budget for excavation, materials, labour, tools and plant. You will also need a soil investigation and a structural engineer's design. However you will be able to save what your house foundations would have cost where the house fits exactly on the basement walls.
- This is a UK site. The UK is usually damp, unlike Northern America, so this UK-developed solution is designed to be totally dry at all times.
- This is a New-Build basement web site. I show you here how I will build your new basement and I give a lot of advice to use during the planning and design before I arrive.
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If you involve me from the earliest stage in the planning and designing of your new-build, waterproof basement from the start and then employ me on site to train and supervise the workforce through the critical stages, my unique waterproof basement construction techniques (all described clearly on this web site), mean you get your basement built completely waterproof for less money than ANY other option available to you.
Probably less than half the cost of an experienced sub-contractor. A third the cost of some of the fixed-priced advertisers found via Google.
Probably 20% less than you managing the entire project yourself without employing me.
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This is a basement house extension in Buckinghamshire. The client is delighted.
The client was his own architect. Many details were decided as we went along. No fuss. No dramas. No extras. The client paid me, he paid the men and he paid all the bills. No mark ups. No profits. No paying off the debt from a previous customer. I saved him a lot of money. Indeed, until he found me he thought he could not afford this basement.
Months later, when he and his wife were seeing kitchen companies, he got talking to one supplier about basements and emailed this to me:
"I told him to contact you before he signed up to anything.
I also told him that he would save more money with you than he would ever make out of us buying one of
his kitchens." and I promise you this was to be an impressive kitchen.
Fantastic savings are achieved with such teamwork. I will train and supervise your gang, a gang we recruit locally or any of the excellent tradesmen I have used in the past if they are near enough to you and available.
The more you involve me the more I will save you.
By consulting with me throughout the design, choosing the materials I supply and the methods I use and paying me to train and supervise every stage your basement will be completed, waterproof from the start, in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible.
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Over 20 years I have tried out everything.
As my experience grew so the best way to construct a basement evolved.
Two products turned out to be much, much better than anything else to construct a fully waterproof basement Right First Time. I used them for years and recently I negotiated discounts which you will discover elsewhere I pass on to you.
The important point is, I am not trying to sell you my products. I have no products. I only work for you.
But as your expert I tell you which concrete additives and which formwork to buy because, by the end of your project, they will work and they will have saved you the most money.
Examples:
Banstead, Surrey. I helped the self-builder with this basement and well at the front. He later said that the 17m x 9m structure cost him less than £50,000.
Here is the timber frame on top and the porch and roof light complete.
This double basement, in Send Marshes, Surrey, cost me £33,000 to construct though the excavation and temporary works were by the client's groundworker.
This huge basement, 25m square plus down a second time for the pool and the wine cellar, took 9 months.
That included the concrete top cast insitu. We used nearly 800 cubic metres of concrete and it cost the client £420,000.
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I appreciate that sounds a tremendously unlikely boast. But I know it is true because during the 8 years developing my ideas I tried many ways that worked out less well. I have had probably over 100 long phone conversations with prospective customers debating the ideas other specialists put to them. If they sounded any good I tried them for myself. These days I find I still learn some new way to improve on every job but it is evident from the people I meet that I have become more expert than anyone else you might find.
This is THE website for self-builders and small builders wanting to construct a fully waterproof basement in the UK.
I must emphasise "Waterproof Basement Construction" and the "UK". Other countries that have basements have kinder climates. We are always wet. Other products suitable in dryer climates (such as Northern America) are often completely unsuitable for the UK climate, so beware.
It has taken me 20 years to develop foolproof waterproof basement construction
design details and methods that, with the waterproofing products and formwork I supply, always result in waterproof basement construction for the least reasonable cost. Beware of anyone else who does not pay the same attention to all the waterproofing details that I do.
Beware, also, of anyone else who is not incorporating savings for those trades and materials that follow on once the basement is finished. For less cost than anyone else my basements have an upstand and they incorporate a timber ledge to support the floor over. Every choice I make is for the good of your whole project, not just my part.
Basements can generally be built for £250 a square metre of floor slab and £250 a square metre of wall. That includes all earthworks, floor slab, walls, waterproofing, materials, plant, tools and labour as well as my time from start to finish. In addition you will need a soil investigation and a structural design. For a typical basement 12m x 8m internally that totals about £65,000. If the house is the same size, shape and footprint above then you could save up to £10,000 on house foundations, meaning your basement is only an extra £55,000.
You can watch my first introductory video now:
Medium Definition MP4 on You Tube. Slower loading but can be viewed in full screen mode.
Low Definition MP4 on You Tube. Faster to load, fine to view alone.
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For specific information on waterproofing concrete and waterproof concrete structures go to our other web site
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