Walk-through of a black-clad extension, boarded out

Joinery & Building, Manchester

Joiners who build.

Hand-cut roofs, loft conversions, extensions and full refurbishments across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

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Experience
Over 12 years in the building trade
Recommended
100% on Facebook, from 12 reviews
Turnaround
A Dane Bank dormer loft, start to finish in 3½ weeks
Quotations
Free, by phone, WhatsApp or email

What we build

The roof, and everything beneath it.

We handle everything from design to completion: the structure, the roof and the joinery first, then the trades that follow, organised by us.

  • Dormer, hip-to-gable and bungalow lofts, from the steelwork to the finishing.

    A black-clad dormer on a pitched roof, photographed at an angle against a blue sky. Ask about a loft

  • Single-storey, side, rear and double-storey extensions, built from the foundations up.

    A glazed bungalow extension glowing at dusk, with the back garden in front. Ask about an extension

  • Traditional roofs set out, cut and fitted on site, the way it’s been done for generations.

    A pale timber hip roof frame on a brick extension, seen from above, with a garden behind. Ask about a roof

  • Built, clad and watertight, ready for the bi-fold doors and the interior fit-out.

    A timber-clad garden room with a flat black roof and a large open front, standing on new lawn. Ask about a garden room

  • Whole-house refurbishments, kitchens, bathrooms and garage conversions, with the trades organised for you.

    A converted garage with slatted timber wall panelling, a wall-mounted television and a marble-effect floor. Ask about a refurbishment

Recent work

Real jobs, photographed and filmed on site.

Drone view of a finished dormer clad in black vertical boarding, set into the roof of a red-brick semi with a dark tiled front slope.

Loft conversion

A black dormer, Dane Bank.

A full dormer clad in black, with new windows and a flat roof, set into an existing roof line. From first day to finished loft: three and a half weeks.

Where
Dane Bank
Work
Dormer loft conversion
Time
3½ weeks, start to finish
A closer drone view of the black-clad dormer, showing two dark-framed windows and the grey roof tiles below.
The same dormer, closer in

Extension and kitchen

Before, and after. Cheadle.

A rear extension with a glazed gable and bi-fold doors. The existing kitchen on the left; the vaulted space, with its rooflights, on the right.

The existing kitchen before work started, with timber-fronted units and a window over the sink.
BeforeThe existing kitchen
Inside the finished extension: a high vaulted ceiling with a rooflight, a glazed gable and a glossy pale floor.
AfterInside the extension

Refurbishment

A bathroom, with the lights down.

A personal bathroom renovation, organised by SJS from start to finish, with a pentagon of LED set into the plaster ceiling.

  • LED strip plastered into the ceiling
  • Lit niche and lit mirror, with under-cabinet lighting
  • Underfloor heating
  • Bluetooth speaker fitted into the ceiling

Project organised by SJS Joinery & Building. Plastering by SWP Plastering & Rendering, plumbing by Murph Plumbing, tiling by Urban Tile & Stone, electrics by Luxe Electrical.

A dark bathroom with a pentagon of white LED light set into the ceiling, a black-framed glass shower and a lit niche.
A wall-hung timber vanity unit lit from underneath, beside a backlit mirror, against large stone-effect tiles.
A shower wall with a black slide rail and a lit recessed niche.
Walk-through, filmed on site

Walk-through

Marble, lit from behind.

A freestanding bath against an illuminated slab, a floating timber vanity and an oval mirror lit from behind. Filmed on site.

  • Freestanding bath
  • Illuminated slab feature wall
  • Floating timber vanity
  • Oval mirror, lit from behind
  • Black taps and towel rails

Hand-cut roofs

Cut by hand.
Fitted on site.

Traditional roofs are set out, cut and fitted rafter by rafter, the way it’s been done for generations. It starts as lines on a plan, and ends up like the frame opposite.

Drone view of a pale timber hip roof frame on a brick side extension, with scaffolding along its edge.
A hip roof frame, ready for the coverings
Plan of a hip roof A line drawing of a hip roof seen from above: a ridge along the middle, four hip rafters running to the corners, and common and jack rafters between them.
Ridge Hip rafters Common rafters Jack rafters Wall plate

“Real joinery. Real skills. No shortcuts.”

SJS Joinery & Building, on traditional cut roofs
Hip rafters meeting at the corner of a brick wall, with the neighbouring roofs behind.
A new timber roof frame running away from the camera along the top of the brick wall.
A joiner standing on a hip roof frame, with the hips and ridge in place and insulation in the wall cavity below.

From the ground up

A job goes up in a set order.

Six stages, in site photos from recent jobs, with the captions as the team wrote them.

  1. A narrow foundation trench with reinforcing steel laid in it, between a brick wall and a fence, with two workers in hi-vis.

    Foundations

    “Foundations dug, piled and poured. Now we build.”

  2. A steel beam hanging from a crane above a house, with a joiner on a ladder at the scaffold carrying an SJS banner.

    Steel

    “Steels going up and in on our loft project.”

  3. Timber hip rafters meeting a ridge, photographed from above the wall plate.

    Roof

    “Traditional roof on and ready for the roofers to get the coverings on.”

  4. The side of a black-clad dormer with two sunlit windows, seen at an angle from the roof.

    Clad and glazed

    Cladding on, windows in, and the shell weathertight. Bramhall loft.

  5. A new timber staircase rising into a loft, with a handrail along the wall.

    Inside

    Stairs fitted, walls up, rooms taking shape. Bramhall loft.

  6. The finished glazed gable extension in Cheadle, lit from inside at dusk, with its bi-fold doors open.

    Handed over

    “That’s a wrap over in Cheadle.” The lights come on.

Reviews

In their own words.

Recommendations from clients on Facebook. 100% recommend, from 12 reviews.

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Ste and his team recently worked on my hip to gable dormer loft conversion through 2+ storms, a newborn baby, the covid pandemic and a demanding customer! Very professional, reliable and excellent results – highly recommended. Thanks also for project managing it Ste.

Emma S. Hip-to-gable dormer loft conversion

Great to deal with, clean and tidy every day … anything we were not sure of or wanted tweaking along the way, Steve was happy to accommodate and even make better suggestions. We love our new extension and kitchen.

Christine P. Extension and kitchen

Steve and his colleague built us a pitched roof over a bay window on possibly the hottest day we will have all year. Both are really hard working guys and did a fantastic job. All cleaned up well and left looking immaculate.

Tracy M. Pitched roof over a bay window

Recent jobs in

Bramhall, Cheadle, Hale, Sale, Stockport, Denton, Droylsden, Failsworth, Audenshaw, Ashton, Reddish, Bollington and Macclesfield.

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