Wall Cladding Installation Southampton

Where an extension is still under construction, we clad its new walls as their finished face. The team fixes the membrane, battens and boards to those walls in the same order as on any other wall we clad.

Some of the homes in Southampton are new builds completed in the mid-2000s.

Where a wall already carries cladding, the team removes every existing board and keeps none for reuse. Once the boards are off, the wall takes the membrane and battens in the same way as a wall that has never been clad. That job is a cladding replacement, and we clad the wall in full as a new installation. Replacing individual failed boards is the external cladding repair service and is not part of an installation.

Highfield’s inter-war Uplands Estate is made up of houses and flats designed in a Georgian style.

The new cladding stops at a line beneath the eaves. The team cuts the top row of boards to that line and closes the top edge with a trim. A fascia or soffit at the eaves is part of the roof, and work to either of them is a roof fascia repair.

The housing on the estates at Weston, Thornhill and Townhill Park is post-war.

A director examines the masonry and any timber frame of each wall at the survey. Where a wall needs repair first, such as repointing, cracked brickwork or a decayed timber frame, the quote prices that work ahead of the cladding. The team completes it, including any carpentry the frame needs, before the membrane and battens are fixed.

The first houses at Bitterne Park were built in the 1880s.

On a semi-detached pair or a terrace, the cladding stops at the line between your house and the next, and the team closes that edge with a trim.

Dense terraced housing was built in Shirley before the 1960s. In that decade, the centre of Shirley was redeveloped as a housing estate.

A director surveys each wall to be clad, measuring the elevation and assessing the wall behind its existing finish. We go through the board options with you at the property, including fibre cement cladding and uPVC wall cladding, and agree the board and its colour. The written, itemised quote is issued within 48 hours of that survey.

A director decides at the survey whether a tower scaffold or scaffolding serves each elevation. The method statement records each of those decisions, and it is agreed with you and signed before the team starts work.

The team fixes the breather membrane across each wall to be clad, then sets out the battens over it. Every batten is fixed through the membrane into the masonry or timber frame behind.

The team cuts each board to fit and fixes it to the manufacturer’s specification. Every corner and edge of the cladding is then finished with a trim.

A director inspects the finished cladding from the scaffold and from the ground. The team makes any minor adjustment the inspection identifies before leaving the site.

Yes. Cladding is fixed to the outside face of each wall, so the team works from the tower scaffold or scaffolding at that wall and not from inside the house. The team protects your driveway and planting around that access for the whole installation.

Some walls need repair before cladding, and a sound wall receives the battens in its current condition. In Highfield, some houses date from between the wars. A batten fixing carries the weight of the boards, so it can lose its hold in any part of the wall that is loose. Any repair is a separate item on your written quote, so you see that work and its price before you accept.

A little. The cladding brings the face of the wall forward, so each window sits deeper in its reveal. The team finishes every reveal with a trim cut to the window frame, closing the edge between the boards and the frame.

The choice is between a single elevation, an extension, a porch and the whole house. A director measures each wall you name at the survey, and the written quote itemises those walls.

One director. The same director surveys your walls, prepares the quote, agrees the access, oversees the team and inspects the finished cladding. Our own team carries out every stage of the installation, with no subcontracted labour.

Every project in our Southampton service area begins with a free site survey conducted by a director. Your written quote follows within 48 hours of that survey.