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Your local builders, based in Woking since 1998.
Woking is our home town. We set up here in 1998 and never left, so the GU21, GU22, GU23 and GU24 postcodes are where you will find us working week in, week out. We know the streets, the housing stock and the way the council likes things done, and that local knowledge saves our customers time and money.
We are an independent, family-run firm. We grew the business through referrals and word of mouth, which only happens when you turn up when you say you will and finish the job to a standard people are happy to recommend. Over 25 years on, most of our work in Woking still comes from neighbours talking to neighbours.
Whether you are in a Victorian or Edwardian property near the town centre, a 1930s semi in Horsell, a post-war home in Sheerwater or one of the newer builds out at Goldsworth Park, we can help. Our builders hold the right trade qualifications and certifications and we carry full insurance, so you get friendly, honest advice from the first phone call and proper cover throughout.
Woking has grown a lot over the years, and the variety in its housing is part of what keeps our work interesting. The 1930s and post-war homes tend to have the room and the roof space for extensions and loft conversions, while the newer developments around the edges of town often need internal changes to open them up. We treat every property on its own merits and never push a one-size-fits-all answer.
Woking is where Prince Builders started, and we take on the full range of building work right across the town and the GU21 to GU24 postcodes. Here is a closer look at the jobs we are asked to do most often by homeowners here, and how each one tends to play out on Woking's mix of older and newer homes.
Growing families in the older semis around Maybury and Sheerwater often want a bigger kitchen-diner or an extra reception room rather than the upheaval of moving, and a rear or side-return extension usually delivers it. The decent plot sizes on many 1930s and post-war Woking streets give us room to build out without crowding the garden. Where you back onto a neighbour or sit near the Basingstoke Canal, we look at boundaries and ground conditions before we price anything. Talk to us about home extensions in Woking and we will tell you honestly what your plot will take.
The pitched roofs on Woking's inter-war and post-war housing tend to have real height and headroom, which makes the loft a sensible place to find a fourth bedroom or a quiet office. Around Goldsworth Park and Knaphill we more often fit a rear dormer to win the floor space; on the older Horsell semis a hip-to-gable can transform what is up there. We will walk you through whether a dormer, hip-to-gable or simple rooflight job suits your roofline. For most homeowners looking to convert a loft, it is the cheapest square footage in the house.
Plenty of Woking kitchens in the Sheerwater and Old Woking homes we work in are simply tired and closed off from the rest of the house. We refit them properly, from first fix and plastering through to units, worktops, tiling and the final decorating, and we often do it as part of opening the room up to the garden. On the newer Goldsworth Park estates the kitchens tend to be sound but dated, so the work is more about a fresh, better-planned layout. A kitchen refurbishment done at the same time as an extension means the new and old spaces are designed to work as one.
Integral and attached garages are common on Woking's post-war and newer estates, and a fair few are used for storage rather than the car. Turning one into a playroom, home office or extra bedroom is one of the quickest ways to gain a room, since the walls and roof are already there. We deal with the insulation, damp-proofing, new floor level, windows and heating so the finished space is warm and properly part of the house. If a garage conversion suits your home, we will check the headroom and the drains before we start.
A lot of the older Woking homes were built as a series of small, separate rooms, and modern families want them opened out. Taking down a load-bearing wall and fitting the right RSJ to make a kitchen-diner or a through lounge is bread-and-butter work for us here. Every job is calculated properly, propped safely and signed off through Woking Borough Council building control, which matters even more on the period homes near the town centre. Our structural alterations are done by hand with the steel sized to the actual load, never guessed.
Some of the tired older houses in Old Woking and the streets near the centre are due a full update rather than a single job. We take these on end to end, from rewiring and replumbing through to new ceilings, joinery, bathrooms and decorating, so you deal with one team throughout. In the Horsell and Old Woking conservation areas we are careful to keep the right materials and detailing, so the finished home still sits comfortably in its street. A whole-house renovation is a big undertaking, and we keep it organised and tidy from the first day to the last.
Bathrooms in Woking's older semis are often cramped and poorly laid out, and a proper refit makes daily life a lot easier. We handle the moving of pipework, the tanking and waterproofing, the tiling and the fitting, so the room is built to last rather than patched up. Where there is space we can add a downstairs WC or turn a box room into an en-suite, which suits a busy family home. Our bathroom renovations are finished to a standard you would be happy to show off.
On top of all that, we also take on basement conversions, spray painting and garden paving and lighting whenever our Woking customers ask.
We are out across the whole borough most weeks. Close to home we cover Knaphill (GU21), Horsell (GU21), Goldsworth Park (GU21), Hook Heath (GU22), Mayford (GU22), Old Woking (GU22) and Pyrford (GU22). We are very familiar with the conservation areas in Horsell and Old Woking, where the look of the property and the materials really matter, and we work to keep any extension or alteration in keeping with the original house.
A short drive out we also look after West Byfleet (KT14), Byfleet (KT14), Brookwood (GU24), Sheerwater and Maybury. The Basingstoke Canal runs through this part of the borough, and some homes near the water have access or ground conditions worth thinking about early, which we are happy to advise on. If you are anywhere in or around Woking, give us a call and we will tell you straight away whether we can help.
Plenty of firms will travel into Woking for the work. We actually live and work here, and that shows in the job.
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If you are planning work on your home anywhere in Woking or the surrounding villages, we would be glad to help. Call Prince Builders on 01483 323512 for a free, no-obligation quote and friendly, honest advice from a local builder who knows the area.
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