Knocking two rooms into one, opening up the back of the house, or taking out a chimney breast all rest on getting the structure right. BN1 installs steel beams and removes load-bearing walls safely, with the calculations, props and building control sign-off that keep your home sound.
Scope scales with the project, but these are the things we get right as standard on any structural alteration project across Brighton and Sussex.
RSJs and goalpost frames installed to a structural engineer's design, properly padstoned and supported while the wall above is taken down.
Knock-throughs and wall removals carried out with the right temporary propping and acro support, so the building stays safe at every stage.
Chimney breasts taken out at ground or first floor with gallows brackets or beams to carry what remains above.
We liaise with building control and your engineer through to final inspection, so the alteration is certified and shows up clean on a future sale.
For any load-bearing work, yes. The engineer sizes the beam and specifies the supports. We can recommend an engineer we work with in Sussex, or work to one you already have, and we handle the building control side.
There is dust, but we sheet up, seal doorways and clear debris daily. A typical single knock-through with a steel is in and made good within one to two weeks.
For removing or altering a load-bearing wall, yes. It protects you and your home. We arrange the inspections and make sure the work is signed off and certified.
Based in Brighton, we cover the city and the wider Sussex area as a matter of course.
A quick call is usually enough to work out whether your structural alteration project is one for us. No detail is too small.