Services · 06
Structural work
Prop and pin, new openings, underpinning, boundary and retaining walls
Knocking two rooms together, removing a chimney breast, opening a rear wall for bifolds or underpinning a corner that has dropped — all of it starts with temporary works that hold the rest of the house up while you take part of it away.
We work to the structural engineer's design, sequence the props and needles properly, and don't take anything out until what's replacing it is ready to go in.
Prop, pin and new openings
Acrow props and needles set out to the engineer's scheme, padstones cast or bedded, steels lifted in and bearings checked, then the temporary works struck in the right order. Openings are formed cleanly so the making-good afterwards is plastering, not rebuilding.
Underpinning
Traditional mass-concrete underpinning in engineered sequences where foundations have to be taken deeper — for settlement, for a basement conversion, or where an extension foundation has to relate to an existing shallow one.
Stonework and listed buildings
The family is particularly proud of its stonework, with projects completed on Grade II listed buildings. That means lime mortars, matched stone, and repairs that don't look like repairs — plus the patience the consent process needs.
Boundary and retaining walls
Retaining walls, boundary walls and the drainage behind them. Most failed garden walls in Yorkshire failed because water had nowhere to go, not because the wall was thin.
What's included
- Temporary works: propping, needling and sequencing
- New openings formed, steels and padstones installed
- Traditional mass-concrete underpinning
- Chimney breast removal and support
- Stonework, lime mortar repair and matched replacement
- Retaining and boundary walls, with proper drainage behind
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From the project gallery
Related work — W T Hall's own photographs.
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