Sue Morris
Signage indicating Mick is at work cover the area of South Birmingham, where we live, like a rash, which had made me very suspicious that he would have peaked in 2008, when he won a Birmingham City Council Built in Quality Award, and would now be drastically over-stretched and therefore to be avoided.
I was wrong! Having struggled to find and engage a reliable builder who followed through after initial promising contacts, I turned to Mick for some substantial building work on our rather dilapidated Edwardian home, just to see what he offered, and met superlative, reliable, committed and competent service.
Mick's project management and person management skills are excellent, as is the quality of work and the competence of all members of the workforce upon which Mick draws: the architect he engaged on our behalf, who also helped navigate submission of planning applications and building regulation compliance; all the builders, plumbers, joiners, electricians, tilers and others have been highly skilled and committed, appearing to take pride and pleasure in their work; they are courteous , low-maintenance and just nice to have around the place!
Re: pricing, I can't comment from a particularly well-informed position; however, Mick's quotation was similar to that of other builders and, in contrast with the general message of allowing for an over-spend of at least 20%, Mick brought in the work pretty well on budget, with additional costs predominantly arising from additional steps I'd asked him to include in the build....and all this during the pandemic, which threatened supply, and risked depleting the workforce: no bad!
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