Book a cellar discovery survey in Ilkley

What the visit records (Ilkley stock)

Bring a torch; we bring a moisture meter and a notebook, not a spray gun.

• Housing type — Victorian/Edwardian millstone-grit villa (Wells Road, Queen’s Road, Parish Ghyll, Cowpasture, Panorama Drive), Grove-side conservation house, later Ben Rhydding stone semi, Middleton / riverside, or a later plot that may have no cellar.
• Access — internal stair, light well, area. Whether a membrane roll and a sump body will actually go down that opening without chewing original dressings.
• Slope and invert — where the existing drain sits relative to the cellar floor on a stepped plot. This is the Ilkley measurement. A flat-estate invert from another town is the wrong diagram.
• Water story — film after rain on the moor, light well holding water, constant seepage through grit, one flood, or only a smell. Hillside houses get the Rombalds / Backstone Beck / Hebers Ghyll questions. Middleton gets the Wharfe question. We do not ask Aire-floodplain questions that belong in Keighley.
• Previous coats — cement tanking, bitumen, none. Cellar tanking vs Type C.
• Conservation / listed — whether the elevation is in the Ilkley Conservation Area or listed, so the spec stays internal.
• Sump location — the one dry corner you still use; rooms above; future shower if conversion is even a maybe; downhill garden that must not become the outfall. Sump.
• Bradford Building Control — enough construction notes to support a notice later. Ilkley is Bradford, not Leeds.
• Neighbour work — if Pure or YDC already converted next door, we still survey *this* light well. Their project is real; it is not your specification.

You leave with a written record of this cellar, not a county template. A price, if the job is real Type C, follows that record. Cost variables.

If the room is a dry cupboard, or the house has no cellar, the survey says that. We would rather a short honest visit than a specification looking for a room.

Form

The form below books a cellar discovery survey in Ilkley. Name and phone are required. Neighbourhood can be Wells Road, Queen’s Road, Parish Ghyll, Cowpasture, Panorama Drive, The Grove, Ben Rhydding, Middleton or other Ilkley. We will call you, or you can ring 01943 330435.

The generated HTML posts the enquiry (name, phone, email, neighbourhood, property type, cellar state) so we can call about a visit. Neighbourhood examples: Wells Road / Queen’s Road / Parish Ghyll / Cowpasture / Panorama Drive / The Grove / Ben Rhydding / Middleton / other Ilkley. Property type examples: Victorian/Edwardian millstone-grit villa / later stone semi / riverside Middleton / other.

Or call 01943 330435.

Practicalities for this cell

• Parking — on the drive where there is one. Wells Road and Queen’s Road are steep; The Grove is not a tanker bay. We do not assume a pump-out lorry can sit on the conservation grid.
• Time — enough to get into the cellar and measure invert on the slope, not a five-minute damp “survey”.
• No public office — we come to the house. There is no walk-in unit on Brook Street.
• Brother / ops — photos and access notes for this Aire Valley cell may later be collected from Keighley. That person is not published as a CSSW on this domain.

After the survey

If Type C is justified: specification, cost range with the variables named, Bradford notice path, conservation flag. If it is not: a short note, not a hard sell. If the cellar is in flood now: first response vs full waterproofing.

Conversion talk stays secondary. After the cellar is dry.