Leslie Cornell Building Restoration Ltd Cob and Lime Specialists Cornwall
We have consistently worked hard to ensure the conservation, preservation and restoration of historic buildings in Cornwall, as well as promoting the use of natural/sustainable building materials and methods to provide a holistically sympathetic approach to all projects.
Specialising in all aspects of Cob and Lime applications, we have built up a Company over the last 15 years that promotes traditional building techniques and ultimately what is best suited for the historic built environment in Cornwall.
Having gained a wealth of experience and an extensive knowledge base, we can provide Full Heritage Building Restoration and Sympathetic Renovation Services in Cornwall.
Whether Leslie Cornell Building Restoration Ltd are the Principle Contractors or Sub-Contractors, we deliver a service that adapts to Client requirements. Accompanied with our understanding, knowledge-base and expertise we can ensure that Historic Buildings in Cornwall are appropriately maintained for continued usage.
We are a Company that believes in looking after our employees to develop and help them be the best that they can be, to maintain the high-level of workmanship that makes us the Company we are. Some of the ways we do this are:
- On site training with new members of the team from our long serving highly skilled Supervisors and experienced Labourers
- Appropriate and continued training for our staff from First Aid training through to Site Management Safety Training (SMSTS)
- Ensuring CDM Regulations are complied with on every project, regardless of size, to ensure the Health and Safety of the workforce and the surrounding environment
- Ongoing refresher training courses for all members of the team to enable them to work safely and provide quality work
- Working with Cornwall College and employing Apprentices to learn our unique traditional building methods so these can be passed on to future generations
- Providing regular Performance Review meetings for each individual of the team to not only ensure high-level workmanship and consistency throughout the Company, but to help them to build the necessary skills for their chosen career
- Daily Quality Control/Assurance procedures to ensure the Company and the team are delivering the high-quality work that is expected from us
- Ongoing Health and Safety training and meetings to ensure that the whole team, Clients and members of the public are safe during all of our projects
- Providing all of the team with appropriate uniform and the essential/required Personal Protective Equipment for the works they undertake
- Liaising with neighbours on any of our projects to ensure they are aware of the works we are undertaking and any potential disruption that may be caused to prevent any unnecessary grievances for both Clients and staff
Being an employee orientated Company we have very little staff turnover, thus ensuring all projects receive a high-quality experience.
To ensure that the high standards of the Company are being met on every project, all team members are required to provide photographic evidence of the works being undertaken on a daily basis. This enables us to provide our Clients with accurate and continual updates of the works progress. We often work on properties when our Clients are not in situ (on holiday, work away, live abroad, etc), and due to the respect we give and ongoing communications with them they trust us being on site in their absence. In these cases, we send regular updates by email and upload daily pictures to iCloud for them to see.
We take immense pride in what we do and our work ethics are illustrated in the Testimonials and Google Reviews received from our Clients.
In addition, CDM Regulations are complied with on every project, regardless of size, to ensure the Health and Safety of the workforce and the surrounding environment.
The success for Leslie and the team continues year after year:
- Continual Professional Development – SMSTS Gained
- Successful Listed Building and Planning Consent Applications
- Numerous Successful projects completed for Private Clients
- Engagement from Cornwall Council and Large Construction Contractors
- Employment of Skilled Tradesmen and Ongoing Apprenticeships
- Employer of Tradespeople
- First Aid Trained
- Cob in Schools Programme
- Winning Best Trade Stand at RCS 2017
Our continued professional and expert knowledge of Historic buildings, and ethos of promoting the preservation of these buildings and understanding of them, has given our Team immense pride in their workmanship.
Not content with just being ‘another construction company’ we are always searching for ways to promote the correct use and methods of Cob and Lime applications, as well as Project Managing (Principle Contractor) larger projects that require new additions but with a sympathetic approach to its natural surroundings and historic value.
Our positive and valued approach to the successful conservation of older buildings in Cornwall has seen engagement from Councils, the Eden Project, The National Trust, Insurance Companies, Private Estates, Large Construction companies and numerous Private Dwellings. To read more about the services we have provided and the feedback from our Clients, please view our Portfolio and Testimonials pages.