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Cleaning, Repairs, Painting and External Refurbishment for Heritage & Listed Buildings
Preservation and restoration of historic buildings require a delicate balance between preserving history and the required updates to secure its future. We embrace conservation and work in line with English Heritage and Historic England philosophies, using minimal intervention and techniques aligned to the history and the future repair and restoration requirements of the façade or roof.
From hotels, commercial properties, university buildings or residential blocks, we sensitively restore buildings bringing them back to life. You only have one chance to restore a façade – over-cleaning, aggressive methods or incorrect selection of repair mortars simply leads to failure, sometimes beyond the possibility of further repairs. Being façade restoration experts, we work with a delicate range of stones from around the UK, with a proven track record of masonry repairs for listed and heritage buildings. Some of our recent projects include the historic Grade ll Brighton Hilton Hotel, Grade II Listed Fairfield Hall, the 19th Century Grade II listed manor house and the iconic Northcote House.
Our skilled craftsmen understand and respect the sensitive nature of the materials we work with. From brick repairs and lime repointing, structural repairs and wall ties, or full façade restoration inclusive of traditional roofing, leadwork, we can help. We provide a detailed façade condition survey to identify issues and propose the best solution. We also offer specialist façade cleaning test trials to help build and approve the correct façade cleaning and restoration method.
Working with minimal intervention, utilising methods and techniques aligned with the building’s history and future performance needs, conservation and sustainability are at the heart of what we do. We can provide a complete external stone cleaning service, a complete façade restoration, masonry repair and cleaning solution for ecclesiastical, historic and listed properties.
Here are some additional services we provide in the conservation & restoration sector:
Façade Services:
- Specialist sensitive cleaning for stone cleaning and brick
- Paint removal on building facades
- Masonry, concrete and façade repairs
- Installation of traditional rainwater and guttering systems
- Installation of internal lime plasters and renders
- Specialist decorations such as gilding and limewashing
Leak Investigations:
- Drone and thermal imaging façade surveys
- Detailed roof and facade leak detection, testing, water ingress investigations, and reports
- Electronic leak testing of roof membranes for flat, felt, and singly ply roofs
- Moisture mapping and vacuum dewatering solutions
- Thermographic, endoscopic camera, and borescope surveys
Roofs and Gutters:
- Planned and reactive roof and gutter maintenance for listed and commercial buildings
- Installation of new rainwater and guttering systems
- Roof repairs, liquid relining, and flexible coatings solutions
- Corrosion control, gutter joint repairs, and rainwater system maintenance
- Traditional roofing and leadwork, using slate and lead
- Installation of bird deterrents.
Echo Arena
The work provided by Building Transformation was excellent. Their product and building exteriors knowledge is detailed, comprehensive and practically applied to the client’s needs. They offer a professional, detailed, high-quality and customer- focused service which meets the short, medium and long-term needs of the client, and provides practical, cost-realistic advice.
Carillion Amey
Customer service is paramount to Building Transformation and they invested vast amounts of time in providing me with a programme to facilitate what was a very complex and time-specific programme of work for the site. The quality and level of support provided by Building Transformation is priceless to any client/contractor.
Echo Arena
The work provided by Building Transformation was excellent. Their product and building exteriors knowledge is detailed, comprehensive and practically applied to the client’s needs. They offer a professional, detailed, high-quality and customer-focused service which meets the short, medium and long-term needs of the client, and provides practical, cost-realistic advice.
Land Securities
A 200,000 sq. ft., four-storey leisure venue in the heart of Nottingham city centre surrounded by major traffic routes needed work to be done overnight. The Building Transformation staff were flexible and able to work around dynamic operational issues completing the project within three weeks.
May & Co
May & Co have worked with Building Transformation on a number of projects which have included external building cleaning and refurbishment. They provided a great service, supported by the high level of documentation from the initial quotation to books and industry-related guidance, all relevant to our project.
Broadgate Estates Ltd.
I am using Building Transformation’s work to help justify façade restoration works around our business. They have produced excellent presentations on what can be achieved and is a brilliant piece of informed marketing that is helping win people over in our business to take façade cleaning and restoration more seriously.
Edward Cooper Young
Building Transformation is always mindful of the environments they are working in and take the time to understand the restrictions of each site; whether they be physical or due to the client’s day to day activities. They are extremely proactive and ensure that any issues are flagged to a client immediately, and when doing so always make sure a solution is provided. I couldn’t recommend Building Transformation more highly.
Novotel Sheffield
I had a walk around today with Dave and am impressed with the work so far. Dave and the team have done a great job.
I’d certainly love to work with you in the future so perhaps before the job is completed we could look at what opportunities there are for the future.
Novotel Leeds
At this stage, from my point of view your team has been extremely professional, informing us of what was happening at all times and most importantly no disruption whatsoever to our guests and business.
Renaker
The team at Building Transformation understood our challenge of finding a facade cleaning solution that would initially restore the glazing to its original state, protecting our building for years to come. Through intelligent and thorough testing right through to the full restoration of Block D, we have been very satisfied with the project management and delivery of the cleaning programme.
ACC, Liverpool
The work that was provided by company Building Transformation was excellent. Their product and building exteriors knowledge is detailed, comprehensive and practically applied to the client’s needs. Professional, detailed, high quality and customer focused service which meets the short, medium and long terms needs of client’s issues and provides practical, cost realistic advice. .