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🌟 WELCOME TO ABODE COVER A MEMBER SERVICE FROM THE BUILD DIRECTORY
Your Home. Protected. Maintained. Simplified.
At The Build Directory, our mission has always been simple:
Keep every customer for life.
For more than a decade, we’ve delivered premium home improvements and major renovation projects across Teesside, Wearside, Tyneside, County Durham and North Yorkshire. Over those years, something became clear:
Even after the big projects were finished, our customers continued calling us for help — emergency repairs, storm damage, odd jobs, professional advice, and trusted tradespeople.
This loyalty inspired the creation of Abode Cover — a subscription service built exclusively for homeowners who want the reassurance of a reliable, local, multi-trade team on standby whenever life happens.
No national call centres.
No faceless service portals.
Just your trusted regional building company, providing the same turnkey “corner-shop” approach we’re known for — now extended to everyday home care, repairs, safety checks, and small works.
💚 Why Abode Cover?
For only £36 per month, including VAT, (that’s £1.18 per day), homeowners enjoy a suite of premium benefits that would cost hundreds more if purchased individually — including services that most national providers charge extra for.
Your Membership Includes
🔧 Access to Every Trade Discipline
A single subscription gives you priority access to our full in-house team:
Plumbing & heating
Roofing & roofline
Windows, doors & glazing
Joinery & carpentry
Electrical & Smart Home specialists
Bathrooms, kitchens, plastering & building repairs
Landscaping, fencing, driveways & drainage
…and much more.
One company. Every trade. One number to call.
🔥 Included Gas Boiler Service in First Year
A service normally priced at £90 + VAT — included in the first year of your membership at no extra cost.
âš¡ Half Price Electrical Safety Check (EICR)
Performed within your first year of membership (Only £120 +VAT - Half Price).
Industry guidelines (BS 7671 & Electrical Safety First) recommend an EICR at least every 10 years for homeowner safety — giving you peace of mind and full compliance.
🚨 Emergency & Minor Works Priority
Storm damage?
Locks failing?
Leaks?
Heating breakdown?
Roof tiles loose?
Fence blown over?
General handyman services?
As a member, you receive:
Discounted call-out rate: £60 + VAT (normally £90 + VAT)
First 30 minutes free on every call-out
Preferential pricing on parts & repair works
Fast-track scheduling for urgent visits
This is possible only because members create predictable availability for our engineers — allowing us to sustainably deploy multi-trade teams that would otherwise be financially unviable for small jobs.
🡠True Peace of Mind — For Less Than £1 a Day
Your home is likely the biggest investment you will ever make.
With Abode Cover, you can maintain it, protect it and improve it — all with one trusted local provider, the same company behind thousands of successful projects across our region.
Reliable service.
Skilled trades.
Local accountability.
Better value.
Smarter home ownership.
This is not an insurance policy.
It is a membership programme designed to give homeowners priority access, reduced rates, essential annual services, and a dependable team they already know and trust.
👨👩👧👦 Designed Exclusively for Existing Customers & Their Families
To maintain quality of service, Abode Cover is currently offered ONLY to:
Existing Build Directory customers
Their friends & family
Households within our core catchment areas
This ensures we deliver the standard of service national firms struggle to match.
Design to Installation
With our dedicated teams we will design install and service your new Bathroom.
Each step of the way from building works to plumbing & joinery, flooring and lighting we will hold your hand all the way!
Carports
Fast, Efficient, Safe
Car ports are built to last in all weather conditions and offer a real safe alternative to garage space or on street parking.
The perfect solution to have some cover for vehicles and handy for most outdoor storage and very handy if its wet!
Garages
Lockable & Secure
The Build Directory can build a new garage or upgrade an existing one including fitting a range of secure doors in a range of colours.
The Build Directory has a great range of garage doors, fitted quickly and perfectly every time.
What’s your colour choice?
Charge Your Vehicle At Home
We fit your own charging point so you can charge whilst your asleep and be ready to go when you need to be.
Bespoke Flooring
Flooring designs to match your decor.
We suply and fit ceramic tiles and LVT Luxury Vinyl flooring.
FRONT PORCHES & VERANDAS
SECURITY OR A PLACE TO RELAX
Add the finishing touch to your entrance with a porch of your making. The entrance porch can add real appeal whilst also adding extra security, reduced tread, handy storage and of course insulation and protection against drafts.
Our New Veranda range offers a real sensory experience. An open space that gives you a place to relax or entertain in style.
Enjoy the garden whatever the season. Our customers love the feeling of being inside outside!
General building repair work large or small
BOILER REPLACEMENT
Energy Efficient Boilers
A new energy efficient boiler is an investment as they are often far more reliable as well as efficient saving on those bills!
We will advise on the best boiler and our fully-qualified gas engineers will fit and maintain it for you.
ELECTRICAL
We improve your property with our electrical services including:
- The latest trends in indoor and outdoor lighting
- Speakers discreetly placed for the best sound quality
- Additional electrical sockets for all your devices
We discuss your plans for better light, better sound, extra sockets and plan and fit everything.
CENTRAL HEATING
From Full central heating systems to radiators, our qualified engineers will fit the best systems for your home.
ELECTRIC UNDERFLOOR HEATING
Easy retro fit systems to be used for either primary or secondary heat to work with existing heating systems or to replace radiators.
Options include loose-fit wiring, flexible enough to fit into small or awkward spaces, electric cable systems, or heating mats you roll out to cover larger areas.
WATER-FED UNDERFLOOR HEATING
Low profile wet fed underfloor heating with porcelain tile
MEDIA
Home Cinema & More - for the best in sound and vision, we design the layout and install your screens and speakers.
From a home cinema room, a recording studio or just a wall-mounted large screen TV, we will plan the layout to provide the best experience for you and then fit everything to the highest standards
KITCHENS
The Whole Project From Start To Finish
With our dedicated teams we will design install and service your new kitchen
The One Stop Shop
Each step of the way from discussing your ideas, creating the designs, ordering materials, building works through to plumbing, joinery, flooring and lighting we will look after everything!
Modern or Traditional Driveways
With a huge range of modern and traditional products to choose from your driveway will be built to last.
Whatever the reason from extra space to upgrades we have the very best products on the market.
From the initial meeting our team will hold your hand through the pro- cess. We will measure the proposed area, help design and quantify the materials. Perform a technical survey arrange supply and delivery and remove all waste from site. Finally we will install your new project with a smile.
Have one of our expert engineers attend your home or workplace and give an estimate for
Solar PV
Solar power your property – turn daylight into electricity and get paid!
Did you know that the sun emits enough energy in less than one hour to power the entire world for a whole year?
Roofline is an essential part of your home and requires highly qualified installers.
Our coreproducts are:
Replacement roof
UPVC Facia Soffits Gutters
UPVC Cladding
Dry Verge Caps
The utmost care and attention is taken to provide the best possible end product
Flood your home with natural light.
Aluminium Flat Skylights
The Aluminium Flat Skylight provides an element of style to extension and orangery roofs by flooding natural light into previously dark gloomy rooms. Its distinctive sleek, frameless edge to edge glass gives a stunning contemporary look that complements the style of the roof and allows the largest possible amount of light into the room.
Flat Skylights looks frameless from the inside, giving a bright open room feel. The fully insulated aluminium frame with ‘Warm Frame’ technology and high performance noise reducing glass means the flat skylight blocks out noise from the outside and is unrivalled in thermal efficiency.
Natural Light From Above
Have us attend your home and give a free estimate.
There is no better way to improve the look and feel of a room than to flood it with natural light from above.
In the daytime your room will feel fresh, airy and alive. At night you will be able to gaze at the stars from your own home.
Available in a range of colours, our roof lanterns not only provide light but maintain the thermal insulation of your home.
Single story extension with tiled roof of flat roof
For your peace of mind: The Build Directory team have been involved in the glazing industry since 1998 and are passionate about you, all our customers receive the very best products with the very best in performance and style. Quality needn’t cost too much. Key Benefits of replacement windows & doors, Most replacement windows and doors replaced now are taking out old UPVC and replacing with new.
Some of the initial UPVC on the market were given guarantees that have now elapsed meaning they are showing signs of wear and tear also many of with companies issuing them are dissolved.
