Sky High Builders - Renovations, Loft conversions, Extensions

What exactly did he say he'd do for the ?500? Is there anything special about your floors?

Marvin did a loft conversion for us a few years ago. We arranged ourselves for the carpet to be taken up beforehand, and then Marvin taped some cardboard down to the wooden floor in the hall. That worked fine for us.

And to be fair, it's a small operation, so if one of his guys cannot work then that is going to throw a serious spanner in the works! But I know that's probably no consolation in your position.

Unfortunately we would not recommend Marvin. We've had a very mixed experience with him. He started off brilliantly, very polite and helpful, offering us suggestions about materials and design. We were due to start on a Friday and on Wednesday he e-mailed, not even called, letting us know our project had to be postponed because one of his men had had an accident. He had no idea when he could do the work. This we could understand, but after a few days of hearing nothing we started to chase for a new date for our project.

After a few emails and calls he wrote to us with a tentatively date, 8 weeks after the original start date. By this point we have a bath, toilets, basins and doors laying around in our house, but even with this we were OK, but in that very e-mail with the new date, he announced he was to charge ?500 for protecting our floors and he was not to held responsible for any damages while moving materials in and out of the house. He offered to make good if there were any damages, but we were to pay for this.

Even to this we replied offering to split the difference for protecting floors, since we felt it was unfair to spring into us this very last minute bill, plus it seem rather a lot. We also accepted his offer to charge us for making good of their own damages to our house when moving materials, but we suggested to set a cap on these repair costs, and anything over this he should take responsibility for.

We heard nothing back. It has been 3 weeks since then. Just completely rude and unprofessional.

We recently had Sky High builders do our loft and other bits. Search for the name on here, I am happy to recommend them.

Us too. Marvin and his team were great and our loft is fantastic. Would highly recommend

I would highly recommend Sky High Builders. I searched for reputable builders on the Forum and Sky High Builders came with very positive reviews of their work. I had a loft conversion completed that wasn't straight forward, Marvin along with his team approached the difficulties, they fully engaged me every step of the way. Marvin was always on site managing the job, I felt confident in what they were doing to my home. The results were stunning!

Contact details are:- 0208 941 1688. www.sky-high-builders.co.uk

Second Marvin and his team. They did a fantastic job for us and always went out of their way to make us happy. Strongly recommend them over the larger more impersonal companies that care about profit first and service last.

We have recently had our loft converted and a bathroom renovated by Sky high builders and I would thoroughly recommend them.

The entire team is lovely, every one of them went the extra mile. They are happy to approach designs and problems creatively which means we have achieved a loft exactly as we were after (easier said than done).

We were working to a tight budget and they came in pretty much on budget. The main extras were unavoidable repairs to our house that were genuinely unforseeable on the builders part.

Marvin is very hands on and is always available, always responds to phone calls and on site often (he has a couple of teams) overseeing and making sure it is being done as he wanted it, re-doing even in some circumstances where he was not happy with it!

His website is: www.sky-high-builders.co.uk

Phone: 0208 8941 1688/07966189754