Pick Your Town
Every one of these is a comfortable run from our workshop. If you are not on the list, ring us anyway: we travel further for the right job, and we would rather tell you straight than waste your time.
Blackburn
Blackburn is mostly Victorian and Edwardian terraces through Mill Hill, Little Harwood and Audley, semis out towards Lammack, Beardwood and Wilpshire, and newer estates at Shadsworth and Roman Road.
Darwen
Darwen is a stone and brick terraced town, and the older houses around Sunnyhurst, Whitehall and Bolton Road tend to have narrow galley kitchens with a chimney breast in an awkward place.
Accrington
Hyndburn is dense red-brick terracing, much of it built for the mills, with the familiar hard Accrington brick.
Burnley
Burnley has some of the best value period housing in the North West, and a lot of it is stone terraces with generous ceiling heights around Whittlefield, Rosehill and Brunshaw.
Clitheroe
The Ribble Valley is stone cottages, converted barns, period farmhouses and a growing number of high-specification new builds.
Preston
Preston has an unusually wide mix. The terraces off Deepdale and New Hall Lane are compact and need every millimetre used properly.
Chorley
Chorley has grown a great deal, and it shows in the housing. The older centre and Coppull are terraced and compact; Euxton, Clayton-le-Woods and Buckshaw Village are largely modern estates.
Bolton
Bolton runs from dense terracing in the centre and Farnworth through to substantial stone and brick houses out at Bromley Cross, Egerton and Harwood.
Rossendale
Rossendale is built on the sides of a steep valley, and it shows in the houses. Stone terraces run up the hillsides in Rawtenstall, Waterfoot and Bacup, and a great many of them are split over more levels than the front elevation suggests, with the kitchen half a storey down or tucked behind a cellar head.
Bury
Bury covers a very wide range in a small area. Radcliffe, Elton and the streets near the centre are dense Victorian terracing where the kitchen is usually a back room and space is the whole problem.
Wigan
Wigan's older housing is largely terraced, built for the pits and the mills, and concentrated around Pemberton, Ince and Hindley.
Leyland
Leyland grew around the motor works, and a very large share of its housing is post-war: 1950s to 1970s semis and estate houses in Farington, Moss Side and Seven Stars, with newer developments filling in around them ever since.
Not sure whether you are in our patch? The quickest way to find out is the instant estimate. It checks your postcode as you go, and gives you a price range at the end.