Builders and project management in Exeter

In Exeter (EX1) it is mostly listed and period renovation, church work, and contemporary new builds in the surrounding parishes, all of it fully project managed on a fee agreed before anything starts. Exeter is a cathedral city, which brings a dense historic centre, a high concentration of listed buildings, archaeological interest below ground and, for anything ecclesiastical, the faculty jurisdiction running alongside the ordinary consent process. Every project begins with a look at the building and the site rather than a price guessed over the phone.

Yes. Exeter is the western end of the regular patch and the work there tends to be booked as a run rather than a day visit. Ring and we will tell you what we usually find in buildings around Exeter Cathedral and what yours is likely to need before anything is opened up.

It does. Exeter has a dense historic centre where listed buildings sit shoulder to shoulder, the ground below carries archaeological interest, and the buildings themselves are frequently older than they look behind a later frontage. Add anything ecclesiastical and the faculty jurisdiction applies as well as listed building consent, which is a separate process with its own timetable. All of that is workable, and all of it is much easier if the survey and the consent strategy come before the design rather than after it.

Exeter is a cathedral city, which brings a dense historic centre, a high concentration of listed buildings, archaeological interest below ground and, for anything ecclesiastical, the faculty jurisdiction running alongside the ordinary consent process. Whether your particular building needs consent depends on what it is, whether it is listed, and whether it sits in a conservation area or a National Landscape, and all three get checked at the first visit rather than assumed. Where consent is needed, the application, the heritage justification and the conservation officer conversation are handled as part of the job.

No. Exeter is inside the area we cover, so travel is in the fixed fee rather than added to it. The fee is agreed at the outset and does not climb with the value of the build, which is the whole point of doing it that way.

Getting out to look at a building in Exeter and talk it through is usually a matter of days. Starting on site is a different question, because a project of any size needs design, consent and trades booked in the right order, and that is measured in months rather than weeks. We would far rather give you a real date than a hopeful one, so ring and we will tell you honestly where the next slot is.

A network of masons, carpenters, framers, lime plasterers, roofers, leadworkers, electricians and plumbers built up across the South West over more than thirty five years, engaged directly at trade prices rather than bought through a main contractor. On heritage work in Exeter that network is most of the value, because the specialists who can do it properly are not people you find at short notice.