DECrew

Just excellent. Having had a terrible experience with a bad builder on our last renovation, I was very careful, and hit gold with these guys. Not the cheapest builder that I have worked with (but not the priciest either). But by far the best. Friends of mine recently took a cheaper quote after talking to DeCrew and going with a cheaper quote with a smaller company - they are now in penalty clauses on the contract, unable to move in, and in real trouble: significantly over budget. They should have used DeCrew. My massive project was habitable and decorated in 3 months. I did not believe Maciek when he told me he would do it. With a minimum of 6 people (and up to 10) on site any given day, all day, and his personal attention, they were done earlier than his estimate. Below are links to the story on here that so many of you commented on and lived through with me. Maciek and Konrad are exactly what I wanted - young, interested, full of enthusiasm, eyes for detail and with a strong team that meant they finished on schedule, and on budget. Transparent quoting, responsive, and fair. They ran a particularly complicated build for me as I was on a VAT reduction entitlement as the building had been abandoned for a while - as they are a proper, VAT registered company, this was no problem for them. And just really nice people - my wife and I loved them and welcomed them to our home. We still owe them a barbecue/Sunday lunch as a thank you, in fact. And the true test of a builder is what happens when things go wrong. A full year after the house was finished, they are returning to snag things: as Maciek said: "let it settle for a year through all the seasons, then we will fix stuff". And, more seriously, when an old ceiling collapsed during the renovation, they were in and fixing it (perfectly) within days - at Christmas time. https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/4802325/victorian-house-inspiration-please https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/4911251/victorian-renovation-in-london-part-2 https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/5007838/victorian-renovation-in-london-part-3-finish-line https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/5234656/victorian-renovation-in-london-part-4-snagging-and-garden https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/5760143/victorian-renovation-in-london-part-5-outdoors#24627717 https://www.flickr.com/photos/reshington/albums/72157684375457971 https://www.houzz.co.uk/ideabooks/110103796/list/our-home