Services
Here at HCL Masonry, we pride ourselves in being a one-stop point for all your brick and stone needs. Our ethos is to offer quality, hard work and great advice. We can collaborate with your architect, provide solutions to unusual problems, or handle your build ourselves.
Likewise, we have great partnerships with many stone sellers and brick merchants, therefore getting you the best prices on your materials. Find out more about the services we offer below:
Commercial and Industrial
We have extensive experience of working with large private and public sector commercial contracts throughout the Yorkshire area. Each sector has their own way of doing things and we are flexible to fit as a main or sub-contractor role.
We are familiar with steel and timber-framed structures alongside traditional buildings.
List of Clients
- Hargreaves Contracting
- Triton Construction
- Engie / Equans
- Brierstone Ltd, Elland
- Marshall Construction
- Princes – Soft Drinks Producer
- J Freeley – Demolition Contractors
- JKL Construction – House Developers
- Reescape – Landscape Gardners
- PDW – Building Project Managers
Large Residential Developments
Here at HCL, we have extensive experience in building residential homes. This is at the core of what we do, we are experts at working on large residential house building programs for large developers.
Examples of Large Developments
- Brierstone Ltd near to Birtle in Bury
- Shadwell near Harrogate
- Oakworth Nursing Home. A large nursing home with 69 bedrooms in Keighley – spring 2018
- Springfield nursing home in Buttershaw, Bradford
Bespoke Exclusive Homes and Project Management
We are proud of our work helping private clients to build their dream homes. In addition to our brick, block and stone laying abilities, we can help you project manage your development keeping to your time frame whilst still ensuring a high quality of work.
Examples
- Large 6 bedroom, 4 bathroom luxury New Yorkshire coursed stone house in Halifax
- High spec 4 bedroom house built in coursed tumbled stone in Holmfirth
- A one-off 4 bedroom exclusive home in Longwood Edge built on a garden plot
- A large 5 bedroom timber-framed new coursed natural stone located in Lindley near Huddersfield
- Medium-sized 3 bedroom detached town house constructed of coursed stone in Huddersfield
Barn Conversions and Restorations
If you have a pre-existing barn, annex, farm building, external office or outhouse, then we can help you do a conversion or restoration. Each barn conversion is a separate unique project requiring a delicate balance of modernisation whilst still keeping the traditional look and complying to building regulations.
Our restoration work comprises a balance of both cosmetic and structural work. If you choose to hire HCL Masonry, we will take an honest look at your requirements and design a solution that will last for years to come. This can involve creating new walls, moving them, adding doorways, lintels and arches.
Home Extensions
One of the most common requests we receive is to extend your house. This is a particularly complex area with many possible design solutions which we can help you work through. We are great at matching bricks to existing structures or working with architects to make a feature of your extension.
Examples of Home Extensions
- Outbuilding, orangeries and conservatories
- Single or multi-storey
- Loft conversions
- Lean-to and flat roof extensions
- Timber frame extensions
Swimming Pools, Orangeries and Conservatories
We have worked both on domestic and commercial (The Grand Hotel in York) to build swimming pools on behalf of clients. Typically, this involves laying blocks inside concrete liners and then handing over to a tiling team.
This type of work requires attention to detail, a high level of accuracy, inlaying of lights and custom work.
We also can work to build your orangery or conservatory project working closely with glaziers and architects.
Garages and Porches
There are many types of garages which can be built and each have their advantages and disadvantages. The cost of your new garage will depend on variables such as:
Types of Garages
- Standard garages such as single, double and tandem
- Attached and detached
- Standard up and over or electrical roller shutter
- Pitched traditional roof or a flat panelled roof
Although porches are generally very small structures, they can make a big difference to the look of a house and provide for a very useful space giving your hallway or living room a totally different feel. In general, they can classified as either open or screened.
Insurance Work
Living in the Britisle Isle means living with a wide range of conditions which can cause significant damage to brick and stone structures.
This can be as a result of water permeating brickwork which can cause them to crack and mortar to be blown. We would then be hired as part of an insurance claim to help carry out repairs.
Other works we might be asked to do can be classified as follows:
- Weather damage from flooding, fallen trees and high winds
- Gas explosions
- Fire damage
- Cars running into your home (this does happen!)
- Repairs to other builders work
Other Activities
Sometimes, you may need a simple job doing which requires a lot of skill. This may be the building of an arch, a repair to a wall, relaying of some flags or paving, installation of a lintel beam, fitting air bricks, building garden walls, constructing gabion walls, repairing foundation bricks and stones, laying foundation blockwork or providing an expert report for your insurers.
We also love working with new cutting-edge technologies for building such as mortarless interlocking bricks, Mega Pool building bricks, Blokit, etc.
Taking the First Steps
The first step to finding out if we at HCL Masonry can help you is to tell us about your project. Provide a brief description of what work you need doing, where you live, your contact details and when you want us to start.
Bricklayers Guide
Have you ever wondered what the difference betwen a Header, Stretcher or Solider Course is? Or what about the difference between a Single Bull or Cow Nose? Take a look at our bricklaying basics page, it’s really useful in helping you plan when you discuss you requirements with HCL Masonry.