This is where the firm is run from. Extensions, conversions, kitchens, bathrooms and driveways for Polegate homes, by neighbours with their own electricians on the team.
O&S Building Services is based in Polegate. It is where the firm is run from, where the vans start the day, and where a fair number of our customers are people we already know. A job in Polegate, Wannock or Lower Willingdon is one we can look at the same day and keep a close eye on throughout.
We are a family run firm with more than three decades of combined experience across the team, and we have qualified electricians in the same firm, so the building work and the wiring on any job are done by the same people.
Polegate grew up around the railway, and the older houses near the station and along the High Street are Victorian and Edwardian: solid brick, slate roofs, and the kind of layouts where knocking through and extending to the rear makes the most of the plot. Some have been divided into flats and are now being put back together.
Most of the town, though, dates from the 1930s onwards. Ribbon development along the main roads gave way to the estates that filled in behind them through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and it is these semis, bungalows and chalet bungalows that make up the bulk of what we work on here. Rear extensions for a bigger kitchen, loft conversions for a third or fourth bedroom, garage conversions for a home office, and new driveways to replace the original concrete are the everyday jobs.
The newer estates to the north and east of the town are more recent still, and the work there tends to be improvements rather than structure: kitchens, bathrooms, patios and driveways.
Everything, and closer to home than anywhere else. Every service
Single and double storey extensions, from the footings and the steel through to the last coat of paint.
Unused roof space turned into a proper bedroom, office or bathroom, with the stairs and the insulation done right.
Cold, half used garages made warm, dry and insulated, so you get a room you will actually live in.
Walls out, floors levelled, units fitted, and everything plumbed and wired by our own team.
Full bathroom and wet room fit outs, tanked and tiled properly so nothing moves in five years.
Block paving, sandstone and resin, laid on the right sub base with the drainage thought about first.
Polegate is in the Wealden District Council area. The great majority of extensions, loft conversions and garage conversions on the town's twentieth century housing fall within permitted development and need building regulations only, which we arrange. The main exceptions are homes near the South Downs boundary and anything close to the older centre, where a planning application can be needed. We will tell you which applies at the first visit.
Polegate is a town of 1930s to 1970s houses, and the jobs follow that stock: single storey rear extensions to open up the kitchen, loft conversions on the chalet bungalows, garage conversions for an office or a fourth bedroom, and driveways to replace the original concrete. We have done a great many of each within a mile of the office.
The older houses near the station bring renovations and rewires, and the newer estates bring kitchens, bathrooms and patios. Because we are so close, Polegate customers also get the small jobs done quickly: a wall, a path, a rooflight.
The firm is run from Polegate. We are neighbours, and we work like it.
A Polegate estimate is usually done within a day or two, and small jobs slot in quickly.
Most Polegate extensions and conversions need building regulations only. We arrange it.
We can take you to a finished job nearby before you decide.
The same four steps wherever you are, and the first one is free.
Call 01323 382155 or send a few details. Tell us roughly what you are thinking of and where in Polegate you are.
We come and look at the job, measure up, and talk through what is realistic for the house and the budget.
An itemised written quotation, free of charge, so you know exactly what you are agreeing to.
Our own team throughout, building control inspections where they are needed, and the site left tidy every day.
If the answer you need is not here, call Martin on 01323 382155 and ask.
Yes. The firm is run from Polegate and our workshop is at Downash, a few minutes up the road near Hailsham. Polegate is home.
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do. A single storey rear extension for a bigger kitchen and living space usually falls within permitted development, and we handle the building regulations and the whole build, wiring included.
Yes. Replacing an old concrete drive with block paving or resin is a regular job, and because we do our own groundworks the base and the drainage are done properly.
Call 01323 382155 or send a few details through the form. For Polegate we can usually come and look within a day or two.
Yes. A garage turned into a home office or an extra bedroom is a regular job on the Polegate estates, insulated, wired and signed off by building control.
Yes. Both are minutes from the office and we treat them as home ground along with the rest of Polegate.
Four of the towns and villages next to Polegate that we work in just as often.
Call Martin on 01323 382155, or send a few details and we will call you back to arrange a visit. Estimates are free and there is no obligation.
