We’ll help you identify and arrange essential repairs, maintenance or improvements, for your home.
We provide you with reliable advice and expert guidance to support you through the process of making sure your home continues to meet your needs and the condition of your home means you can live safely and well.
A Decent Homes Loan can help with paying for essential work
Essential work examples include:
- roof work,
- updating electrical systems,
- replacement windows and doors,
- heating systems or insulation measures, or
- updates to kitchens and bathrooms.
Sometimes urgent repairs are required, due to major hazards like serious dampness, dangerous stairs or electrical wiring, which could affect your health, safety or wellbeing. Funding is also available to remove these hazards, find out more.
Our experts will guide you through making an application for financial help from Cheshire West and Chester Council. Before you make an application, one of our Technical Officers will visit to check what works your home needs (preparing a schedule of work) and how much it will cost. We will then support you by arranging and overseeing the works through to completion.
Home security referrals
We respond to referrals from Cheshire West and Chester Council where where the household have experienced, or are at risk of domestic abuse. By delivering essential security measures, repairs and security advice, we can improve home security. Examples include door and window locks, boarding up windows and doors, and repairs to make safe internal and external damage which poses a threat to personal safety.
