The variables that move a Keighley figure
Room size. One-room coal store under a Parkwood hall versus a slightly larger Worth Village stone cellar. Membrane, channel length, and labour hours follow the floor plate. Some holes are smaller than the sump body; cost of Type C there is £0 because the job should not exist.
Access. Kit through the front door and the living room is slower than a clear external stair. Back-to-backs have no rear access. Parking a van on Lawkholme Lane or West Lane is time, not a footnote.
What is already on the walls. Failed slurry or bitumen that must come off (cellar tanking vs Type C) is strip-out, skip, and disposal before the new system starts — and skips on mill streets are neighbour-sensitive.
Sump and outfall. A combined drain at a workable invert is one job. A mill-era drain at Stockbridge that already surcharges after rain is another. There is no lawn trench to hide a new run. Sump page.
Shared walls. Through-terrace: two party walls. Back-to-back: two sides plus the house behind. Party Wall notices, neighbour access, and working on a shared rear wall are cost and time.
Bradford Building Control. Structural waterproofing here is a Bradford application, not a Leeds one, and not “included in the tin”. Fees and drawings sit outside a doorstep guess.
Whether conversion is in mind. Recording extra headroom and sump position is specified now. Conversion itself is not in the waterproofing number, and the conversion SERP in this town is already milled. Short upsell page.
Whether there is a cellar at all. Utley, Guardhouse, Bracken Bank — later stock often has no coal cellar. Cost of Type C there is £0 because the job does not exist.
Bands, not a quote
| Situation on this stock | How to read it | |---|---| | Dry meter cupboard, no history of water | Not a waterproofing job. We will say so. This is the honest coal-hole conversation. | | Local repair / investigation only (failed drain, one wet reveal) | May sit below the high-ticket band. We would rather lose the work than invent Type C. | | Full Type C on a small mill-terrace coal cellar, front-room access, clear combined outfall | Commonly inside £10k–£30k once membrane, channel, sump, finish protection, and Bradford notice are in | | Back-to-back, failed old tanking to strip, awkward discharge, house-behind water, Stockbridge surcharge drain | Toward the top of that band, sometimes beyond — survey, not a web figure | | Flooded-cellar first visit (pump-out) | A different, smaller ticket; it is not the waterproofing install. Flooded cellar — primary supporting page on this cell |
National queries such as tanking a basement cost are answered by this page in Keighley terms. We will not publish a single UK-average scraped from a directory.
Why the survey is paid / scoped
A free pavement estimate cannot see invert, the shared rear wall, or whether a sump will pass the front-room hatch. The cellar discovery survey is the product that produces a figure. Until Keighley Cellar Waterproofing sets a policy, treat the visit as paid and scoped — never as a plumber “free estimate”.
FAQs
Can you give me a price for a back-to-back on Highfield from this page?
No. Highfield access, the house behind, and outfall still have to be seen. The band above is so you know whether you are in high-ticket waterproofing or a patch — and whether the coal hole is a job at all.
Why so much more than a “damp proofing” quote we had from a Bradford-wide firm?
Because they were often quoting a coat, not a drained system, and they had Keighley in a coverage list. Type C, a sump, a Party Wall flag on a back-to-back, and a Bradford notice are a different job. A Morley drainage template URL is a different job again.
Do you price conversion on the same visit?
We record what a later usable store would need. We do not sell a conversion price from this site’s H1. Quoted conversion search in Keighley is already milled. CTA stays the waterproofing survey.