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🔨 Barker & Son Construction
🏗️ Extensions - Renovations - New Builds - Landscaping
🔧 Steelwork Specialists
📌 Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire

17/02/2026

Sheamus and Joe smashed it out with the plastering yesterday. The quality and speed is unmatched! 🔥

Last night we got the downlights in, we needed some good lighting to work💪🏼

Got the utility area cleared out and shelves stripped out ready for the ceiling to come down this evening 😷

To round up the evening, I gave the old fella a present which you can see he’s absolutely chuffed with 😂

14/02/2026

Kitchen project gets plastered today! Then onto fixing some underfloor heating trays this evening 💪🏼

Kitchen gets delivered next Tuesday! Need a big week to get this all ready ✅

13/01/2026

Thursday on site 🚧

We got the fascia and soffit fixed on the front dormer. This whole section is now ready for the roofers

Mike has got the guttering installed around the house ready for the storm ⛈️

Today we are on building stud walls to make for a cleaner finish in the bathrooms 💪🏼

16/12/2025

Kitchen Project

Timber frame for the LED strip lighting has been constructed ✅

Central part of the ceiling has been insulated and plasterboarded using pink board for modern regs as there is a steel above ✅

Old flooring stripped out. Insulated between joists and new 18mm ply has been fixed down which is the base for our underfloor heating system! - waiting on plumber to disconnect gas so we can complete.

Started breaking out old concrete slab = hard as f**k 😂

The old man has been adapting some pipework in the hallway/downstairs toilet 🚻

The wiring had been temporarily replaced prior to starting. Although new sockets & lighting will be getting installed 💡

These evenings go quick. No time to waste 🚧

15/12/2025

Plasterers have been hard at work which gets these rooms a step closer to finishing!

Underfloor heating trays are due to go down today on the top floor! Exciting times for this project.

Ground floor has come to a stop temporarily but we are confident it will be moving again soon 💪🏼

This house will be a beauty when its complete 🤩

11/12/2025

Kitchen Project has officially started 🔥

Can’t wait to see the end result on this after many hours of grafting 👀

08/12/2025

Front dormer being formed on our current project 🪵 this will look great once it’s complete! 🤩

05/12/2025

Wednesday and Thursday on site 🚧

Myself and the old man have been insulating and plasterboarding the second floor. This is a warm roof and we are trying to achieve between 150mm - 170mm thickeness with the insulation.

Between the rafters we have 150mm between, and 25mm overlay, and on the dormer walls we have 100mm between, and 50mm overlay. It never ends 😂

Plasterboard we are using normal white board, however on the party wall we are using blue sound board.

The window fitters have been cracking on and have finished all windows and doors, except the mega bifold doors

Happy Friday 🥳

02/12/2025

Some missed photos ⚔️

This project is a complete renovation where no part of the existing building remains the same.

The most transformational part for me is the loft conversion 🪵 for this we have to strip the roof tiles, and start cutting out the old rafters, and also take out the existing joists, ready for all new, bigger, stronger timbers 💪🏼

We installed new steels in the first floor ceiling to carry the ceiling joists. This is needed to break the span of the joists.

Then we cut in the joists, and got to work on forming the roof 🏠

I feel I missed some of these important sections over previous posts, which is why I am going back to upload ⚡️

27/11/2025

Now I apologise as photos on this project are few and far between! 📸

Once the sewer was sorted, the footings went in using dense concrete block ready for the block and beam floor to go on.

These beams weighed a tonne! But we persevered and me and the old man got it done 💪🏼

We laid the blocks in, cut in the ones that needed it and locked it all together with a strong watery cement mix.

Next Job, steels 😬

25/11/2025

Foundations on our current project were already in, these were done 1 year prior to starting.

First job of ours was to move the manhole out of its original position, as this will be where our clients new kitchen is! 🤩 nobody wants a manhole in the middle of their kitchen 🕳️ (this is a lengthy process which can take a couple of months to get all the right documents and authorisation sorted)

We then broke out the pipe, positioned our new manhole so it sat outside of our building footprint and connected it back up. BOSH 💪🏼

Concrete the manhole in and around the connection so it doesn’t sag/move. We shingled around the pipe and backfilled.

Job done ✅

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