Danford Brewer & Ives - Specialists in Damp Proofing, & Timber Treatments, Ripon, North Yorkshire

We welcome you to join us in your quest for the best. As your local damp & timber specialists, look no further. We are based in Ripon, and cover the whole of Yorkshire & other areas too. And that’s not all; we also carry out Conversions, Extensions and all kinds of building works BIG or small.

We offer a complete service for all maintenance and improvement work that your property may need, so that you can rely on us to carry out any size of job, from changing a tap washer to a complete house renovation or extension. We cover all building trades our strength lies in our well trained and dedicated workforce who carry out our work with the skill, knowledge and expertise gathered over many years in the building trade. We provide a friendly service with helpful advice together with a free, no obligation quotation, from which you will see that our prices are extremely reasonable.

We carry out all exterior repair and maintenance work on domestic or commercial buildings, such as guttering repair or replacement, all aspects of roofing from repointing the ridge tiles and replacing missing slates to full re-roofing and lead work. We repair or replace windows, doors, fascia boards, fencing and gates. We repoint walls and chimneys, build garages and extensions, lay concrete drives and paths. We do all exterior decorating. We are able to carry out any work that you may require to keep your property's appearance, structure and value in good condition.

How We Work

We will be contactable, punctual and honest. We keep our customers informed, and work to agreed programmes, with starting and completion dates for any work that we undertake. As a company we are very aware of Health & Safety dangers within our industry.We work with qualified consultants, and our staff are kept up to date with any changes made to regulations, and they are trained to high standards of safety within the workplace. This allows us to offer the excellent services that we provide, and is in the best interests of our customers, ourselves and the general public.

Apart from the constantly changing regulations, new methods and products become available as a company we like to keep up with these changes , by constantly checking and upgrading, so that we can offer the best methods, and products to you our customers. There are some fantastic ideas and improvements being thought of out there (and a few not so good ones), but most ideas are worth a look, and we enjoy and encourage all of our staff, to keep up to date with these changes. They apply the best methods available, and adapt their working practices to suit each individual job, as they work on traditional and often listed buildings.