Paul Turner review about company George Hardie & Son Joiners Ltd

We engaged Hardies in February 2018 to work on our flat, which forms part of a tenement block in Bellevue on the edge of New Town. They were faced with the difficult job of making good a small loft above the kitchen which was not properly isolated from the flat above. (Overhead, you could see the floorboards of the property upstairs!) Working in such an inaccessible location – site of an old water tank – they not only gave the space the walls and ceiling that it lacked but made it into a useful storage area. They also vented the (internal) kitchen by building a duct for the cooker hood which they took above the kitchen ceiling, down the inside of an internal wall and under a bedroom floor, so that all you now see is the cooker hood itself. The work was done quickly and the disruption was minimal. We were very impressed by current director David Hardie and his team, who were all lovely people to deal with. On site they think on their feet, doing not what’s easiest for them but what will deliver the best result for the property. We subsequently had them do some electrical jobs, point the stonework around five large sash windows, free the sashes themselves (which had been painted up in the past), rehang the (huge) front door which was sticking and install a new threshold under it. When we first realised that all this work needed doing, we set out to identify a firm that knew old properties like ours, and in Hardies we most definitely found the kind of company we were looking for. Recommended wholeheartedly.