Here at 4K Construction we spend a great deal of time renovating and refurbishing older style properties. We love this type of work as some of the older properties are very grand and have lots of character in them. Older properties however, inherit a list of natural defects and just one of those defects is [...]

When building a wall over 1.125 metres in length it is always advisable to use a line and pins, for this will ensure a neat job. Before bringing these into use however, it is first necessary to build the corners, and making sure that they are vertical or ‘plumb’, in alignment and also to ‘gauge’. [...]

The housing market has always had its ups and downs, but of late, as well as recent fluctuations in house prices, many homeowners have not only had house price depreciation to worry about, but additionally the progressive collapse of the UK economy.   Too bold a statement?   Well let’s look into this a little further! If [...]

One of the things I particularly love about building, is not just the actual build itself and putting the structure up etc, but rather,  looking at the fundamentals and how a particular structure becomes to be the ‘great bulding’ that it actually is. This all of course starts from the planning stage and the actual [...]