Extensions. Bathrooms. Boilers. Roofs.
Every trade in-house. Across Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle.
From a single emergency call-out to a multi-million pound programme.
day & night
One firm. Every trade.
We started small in Durham and grew across the North East by doing one thing properly: keeping every trade in-house and running every job through one accountable team. No subcontractors. No chasing whoever's responsible for the bit that's gone wrong.
From a burst pipe at 2am to a council-stock kitchen rollout to a £1m extension. Same firm. Same standards. Same Contracts Manager from start to finish.
It's not complicated. It's just rare.
Two routes. One team.
Whatever the job, we run it through one of two divisions. Same standards. Same accountable team.
Homes & small business.
Extensions, conversions, full refurbs and the everyday trades. From a leaking tap to a basement build. One contractor for the whole job, design through handover.
- Extensions
- Bathrooms
- Loft conversions
- Kitchens
- Garage conversions
- Electrical
- Basements
- Plumbing & heating
- Renovations
- Roofing
Commercial & charity.
24/7 all-trades cover for councils, housing associations, charities and blue-chip clients. Multi-site programmes, planned maintenance, capex rollouts, reactive call-out.
- Council contracts
- Housing associations
- Charity partnerships
- Office fit-outs
- Commercial new build
- Reactive maintenance
- Multi-site programmes
- Planned works
- Voids turnaround
- Capex programmes
All trades. In-house.
No subbing out the bits we can't do. We employ the trades. One team, one chain of accountability.
Extensions & Conversions
Single-storey, two-storey, lofts, garages, basements. Designed and built end-to-end.
Electrical
Rewires, EICRs, EV chargers, commercial installs. NICEIC and NAPIT certified.
Plumbing & Heating
Boilers, full system swaps, bathrooms, leaks. Gas Safe, MCS for heat pumps.
Refurbishments
Whole-home or single-room. Bathrooms, kitchens, full renovations.
Roofing
Pitched, flat, repairs, full strip-and-relay. Storm response.
Painting & Decorating
Domestic and commercial. Properly prepped, properly finished.
Maintenance
Planned and reactive. Single-property and multi-site contracts.
Renewables
Solar, heat pumps, EV chargers. Lower bills, cleaner kit.
How we work. Start to finish.
Same process whether it's a single bathroom or a council framework contract.
We come and look
No quote without seeing the job. Site visit, requirements written down, technical bits flagged early.
We price it properly
Fixed quote, in writing, in plain English. Schedule of rates option for contract work. No surprises.
We do the job
Named Contracts Manager from day one. Daily site visits. One programme, one team, one phone number.
We sign it off
Certificates filed, snags closed out, site left clean. One handover, properly. No vanishing.
Built for the North East.
I started ATKINSONS because finding a builder you could actually trust in the North East was harder than it should have been. Too many firms over-promise, under-deliver, then disappear halfway through the job.
So we built something different. Every trade in-house. One number, one team, one accountable contractor from day one to handover. Whether it's a kitchen, a basement, a council contract or a 24-hour emergency, the standard doesn't move.
We started small. We're now the biggest and busiest all-trades firm in Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle. We didn't get there by cutting corners. We got there by doing the job once, doing it right, and turning up when we said we would.
No middlemen. No surprises.
Most contractors coordinate. We deliver. The difference is whether the trades on your job actually work for the firm you signed the contract with.
Every trade in-house
Building, electrical, plumbing, heating, roofing, decoration. No subbies taking margin and dropping accountability. One firm, one chain, one bill.
24/7 manned phones
Real people answering, day or night. Engineers dispatched, not just a job number logged. Burst pipes don't wait for office hours.
One Contracts Manager per job
Named, accountable, reachable. Daily site visits. Same person from mobilisation to handover, not a rotating cast of strangers.
Local, family built
Headquartered in Durham. Sponsors of Sunderland City FC and The Drunken Duck FC. We're not parachuting in from down south for a quick contract.
Properly accredited. Properly insured.
Gas Safe
Every gas engineer registered. Annually verified.
NICEIC
Approved electrical contractor. BS 7671 certified.
NAPIT
Building regs Part P self-certification.
TrustMark
Government-endorsed quality scheme.
Constructionline
PQQ-vetted supplier register.
CHAS Registered
Health & safety pre-qualification.
NEBOSH
Qualified safety oversight on every contract.
£10m Insured
Public liability £10m. Employer's £10m.
Two sites. One team.
Headquarters in Durham. Customer service centre in Sunderland. Vans on the road across the region.
ATKINSONS HQ
Durham
Portland HouseBelmont Business Park
Durham, DH1 1TW
ATKINSONS
Sunderland
First FloorNorth Sands Business Centre
Sunderland, SR6 0QA
Let's talk.
Single emergency, multi-site programme, kitchen, council contract, charity refurb. Tell us the brief, we'll come and look, we'll come back with a price.