Home renovations & building restoration
Built like our own home.
A small London builder, working on a small number of projects at a time, in Walthamstow and the postcodes around it.
We take every project on as if we were going to live in it. The detail is the work. The work is what we sign our names to.
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How we work
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Consultation
We come and look at the project, listen to what you want to achieve, and put together a written scope and a fixed price. The consultation is free, takes about an hour, and doesn’t oblige you to anything. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you, and we’ll usually know someone who is.
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Build
A small team, on site every day, working through the project room by room. One number to call and one person who answers. Materials are agreed before they’re ordered. Changes are agreed before they’re made. The price you sign is the price you pay.
03
Handover
A renovation is finished when the snag list is closed. We walk every project ourselves before we hand it over; the list should be short by the time you see it. After handover, we stay on the hook for twelve months — anything that needs adjusting, we come back and adjust it.
What we do
A small list, done well.
We focus on a small number of services and do each of them properly. If your project doesn’t sit on this list, get in touch anyway — we’ll let you know whether it’s a fit, or recommend someone who would be a better one.
Home renovations
Whole-house refurbishments, room by room, finished completely.
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Bathrooms
Designed, plumbed, tiled and finished by one team.
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Kitchens
Bespoke and trade cabinetry, installed properly.
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Internal remodelling
Steels, openings, the work that makes a house make sense.
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Period property restoration
Conservation-correct work for Victorian and Edwardian homes.
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External restoration
Brickwork, elevations, paths, railings, garden walls.
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About JAG
A small builder. A short list of projects at a time.
I’m James. JAG is a small team based in Walthamstow, working mostly in the Victorian and Edwardian terraces of East and North London. The kind of houses we live in ourselves. We know how they’re built, where they fall down, and what hides behind the lath and plaster.
We work on a small number of projects at a time so each one gets the attention it needs. The same faces are on your site from the first day to the last.
— James Saunders, JAG Construction London
Read more about JAGFrom the journal
Notes from the trade.
Period property
What's worth saving in a Victorian terrace
Cornices, picture rails, fireplaces, sash windows, lime plaster. What's worth restoring in a Victorian terrace, what's worth replacing, and how to tell.
Period property
Opening up a Victorian terrace
What's actually holding a Victorian terrace up, what changes when a wall or chimney breast comes out, and how a knock-through gets done properly.
Process & craft
What good joinery actually looks like
Built-in joinery is one of the last things a renovation adds, and one of the first things you'll touch every day for the next twenty years. What separates the joinery that earns that from the joinery that doesn't.
Period property
Bathrooms in period houses
Most Victorian and Edwardian terraces were never built with a bathroom at all. Why that still shapes every one we build, and what good work looks like.
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