Core Agency Service

Do you need help to repair your home?

Are you over 60? or disabled? or on low income?

Care & Repair offers confidential advice and practical support to older people and disabled people who need to repair, adapt or improve their homes.

We can help owner occupiers and private tenants who are over 60 or disabled.

Care & Repair can help organise essential works such as repairing a leaking roof, repairing or replacing rotten windows, rewiring electrical installations or replacing burst hot water cylinders. Adaptations can include installing stairlifts or showers for some disabled people. We can also advise about improvements to heating or insulation.

▪ Home visits to discuss the work needed

▪ Advice about grants to pay for the work

▪ Help to fill in forms and apply for funds

▪ Impartial technical advice and supervision of building works

▪ Help to choose a reliable builder from our register

▪ Practical support whilst the works are in progress to ensure everything runs smoothly.

All our advice is free. If you do go ahead with building works we will charge a fee but this is usually covered in any grant you receive. Nothing will go ahead until you are happy with the proposed works and any cost. It costs nothing to ask for our help.