A builder run like a drawing office.
Senior, in-house, deliberately small. We measure twice, document everything, and leave nothing for the site to improvise.
Stratum started in 2009 with one conviction: a custom home should be built exactly as it was drawn. Too many good designs lose their edges on the way through a building site — reveals widen, thresholds step, intent dissolves into “close enough.”
So we built the company backwards from the detail. One senior team, kept small. Estimating and joinery in-house. A fixed-price tender produced only after the drawings are fully understood. The work that follows is quiet by design — and that quiet is the whole point.
Three rules we don't bend.
Drawn, then built
The architect's documents are the contract. If a detail is unbuildable we solve it on paper first — never with an on-site shortcut.
One price, held
A fixed-price tender, itemised line by line, that we stand behind. Variations are the exception and always explained before they happen.
Tolerance is the brand
Flush, square, plumb. The finish a client feels long after handover is the millimetre they never have to notice.
The people who hold the line.
Elias Marlow
Founder / Builder
Marcus Webb
Construction Lead
Tomas Cole
Estimating & Pre-con