About NBS
Two companies. One standard.
Nottingham Building Services is the second company from Aaron Brereton, and the first thing to know about it is the first company.
- Aaron trading in Nottingham
- 10 years
- from 101+ NLS reviews
- 4.9/5
- NLS gardens finished
- 250+
Meet the NLS teamThe NLS crew, in NLS green.
Where NBS came from
First the gardens. Now the garage.
Aaron Brereton started Nottingham Landscaping Services in March 2016 and built it the slow way: job by job, review by review, until it became one of the best-reviewed trade firms in the city, with four local teams and 101+ five-star Google reviews. If you have had a patio, driveway or garden done in Nottingham in the last few years, there is a decent chance NLS did it, or did one on your street.
Along the way, the same conversation kept happening at the end of garden jobs: "while you're here, do you know anyone who could do the garage?" The answer was always yes, because the joiners, plasterers and electricians Aaron has worked alongside for years were already building those rooms. What was missing was a company name over that work, with the standards and accountability NLS customers expect.
That is NBS: garage conversions, run by Aaron, staffed by time-served trades. Home offices, gyms, bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, utility rooms and playrooms, all built on the same structural work and all signed off by building control.
The name is new. The people, the standards and the phone number are not.
How we work
Three rules we brought over from NLS
Say no early
If a garage slab is past saving or the wall you want to open is holding up the house, you hear it at the free survey, with the measurements to back it up. Walking away from a bad job is cheaper for everyone than building it.
Paper before tools
Drawings, a building regs application, a fixed written quote and a programme, all before day one. The jobs that go wrong in this trade are the ones priced off a doorstep chat.
Live like a guest
A conversion happens next to your home while you are in it. Dust screens up, tools away each evening, and the same faces on site through the job, not a rotating cast of strangers.
Want to check up on us first?
Read the 101+ reviews Nottingham has left for Aaron's team at NLS. Same owner, same attitude, pointed at your garage.
Ready to talk about your garage? Get my free quote, or see what a garage can become first.
About the firm
Questions about us, not the building work
If yours is not here, ring Aaron on 07455 331326.
Who will actually be on my job?
The same trades throughout, and Aaron running it. NBS is not a lead-generation front that sells your job on to whoever is free that week. The joiners, plasterers, electricians and groundworkers have worked alongside Nottingham Landscaping Services for years, which is the whole reason this business exists rather than starting from nothing.
NBS is new. What has Aaron built before this?
Nottingham Landscaping Services has been trading since 2016, 10 years, and holds 101+ Google reviews at 4.9 out of 5. That work is landscaping and groundwork rather than conversions: retaining structures, drainage, bases, patios and driveways. The conversions arm grew out of it as the team took on more trades. We are not going to dress that up as decades of garage conversions, because it is not.
Do you use your own team or subcontract it all out?
Our own core team for the structure, the joinery and the finish, with time-served specialists brought in for the parts that legally need them, which mainly means the electrics and the gas. That is normal and it is how the certification works. What we do not do is hand the whole job to a subcontractor and disappear until invoice day.
What happens if something is wrong after you have gone?
You ring Aaron on 07455 331326 and we come back and put it right. Every conversion also ends with a building control completion certificate, which is an independent inspector signing off the structure, insulation and fire separation rather than us marking our own homework.
Do you only work in Nottingham?
Nottingham and the towns around it, which in practice means anywhere an NLS van already goes: West Bridgford, Beeston, Arnold, Hucknall, Carlton, Mapperley, Clifton, Long Eaton, Stapleford, Bulwell, Eastwood and the villages between them. If you are a little outside that it is still worth asking rather than assuming.
Your free quote
Your next room starts here.
Tell us what you have in mind. Aaron will be in touch within 24 hours to arrange a free visit and a fixed written quote. No pressure to go ahead.
Prefer a chat? Call Aaron