Wayne Harman, and a board on the front of your house.
A Worthing building and carpentry company that has been working on West Sussex and Brighton homes since 2013.
Started with carpentry. Ended up running the whole build.
Harman Building and Carpentry Ltd was set up in March 2013 by Wayne Harman, a City and Guilds qualified carpenter, and it has been working continuously on Worthing, Hove and Brighton properties ever since.
It began as carpentry. Kitchens, doors, staircases, fitted work, first and second fix on other people’s sites. What kept happening was that clients would ask who was going to sort the wall, the steel, the plastering, the electrics. Eventually the answer became: we will.
Today the company takes on full refurbishments, extensions, structural alterations, knock throughs, loft and garage conversions, kitchens, bathrooms, maintenance and bespoke joinery. The one thing that has not changed is who is standing on the site.
We are based at 46 Victoria Road in Worthing and work across West Sussex and Brighton and Hove. If our board is on the front of a house near you, knock on the door and ask them what we were like. We would rather you did that than read a paragraph about how much we care.
Big enough for a seafront villa. Small enough to answer the phone.
The work ranges from a single structural opening in a terrace to a five storey seafront property under full scaffold. What decides whether we take a job on is not the size of it, it is whether we can run it properly alongside what we already have on.
That is why we will sometimes tell you we cannot start until a certain month, rather than starting and then disappearing. A start date that gets kept is worth more than an early one that does not.
- Established March 2013, company no. 08426844
- City and Guilds qualified carpentry
- Checkatrade member
- Structural work to engineer’s design, signed off by building control
- Based in Worthing, working across West Sussex and Brighton
Four things we will not compromise on.
You get the same person throughout
The person who visits, the person who prices and the person on site are the same person. There is no account manager and no handover.
Nothing gets covered up
If something is uncovered behind the plaster you hear about it the same day, with what it means for the price and the programme.
Structural work is engineered
Anything load bearing is designed by a structural engineer and signed off by building control. There is no other acceptable way to do it.
The finish is a carpenter’s finish
Every job ends in second fix joinery, which means it ends with the trade this business was built on.
“You will get the person who priced the job on the site doing the job. If something is uncovered we will tell you the day we find it, not the week we invoice for it. And the price you sign is the price you pay unless you change your mind about something.”
Most of what goes wrong on a build has nothing to do with bricks.
It is communication, sequencing and who is accountable when something is uncovered. Here is the honest difference.
Worthing, Brighton and everywhere in between.
Based on Victoria Road in Worthing, working across West Sussex and Brighton and Hove. If you are just outside this list, call anyway.
Tell us what you are planning.
Whether it is a wall coming down or a whole house coming back to life, the first step is the same. A conversation, then a visit, then a written price you can actually rely on.