Bradford sits right on our doorstep; we're based in Menston, just up the Aire and Wharfe valleys, so getting to a job in Saltaire, Heaton or the city centre rarely means a long drive or a wasted morning. We work across the district: Saltaire's World Heritage streets and mill buildings, the substantial stone villas along Ilkley Road and in Heaton and Frizinghall, the terraces of Manningham and Girlington, and out towards Shipley, Baildon and Bingley.
Bradford's building stock is distinctive. The city grew on wool and textiles, and that history shows in the architecture: Victorian worsted mills now converted into apartments and studios, grand stone villas built for mill owners, and dense streets of stone-built back-to-back and through terraces built for the workers. Each of those brings a different subfloor and a different reason for choosing a seamless finish; a mill conversion wants a floor that matches its exposed brick and steel, a stone villa in Heaton often has a period ground floor being brought up to a modern standard, and a Manningham terrace extension wants a floor that makes a small kitchen feel bigger.
We also see a steady amount of work in Saltaire itself, where conservation-area rules and the World Heritage Site status mean owners are often looking for a flooring finish that reads as contemporary without fighting the character of the building, microcement's plain, joint-free surface tends to sit comfortably alongside original stone mullions and cast-iron features rather than competing with them.
