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Administration · 13 February 2026

FK Facades

Main contractor · Altrincham · North West England · Part of FK Group

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What happened

FK FACADES LIMITED (company number 02874877), incorporated in 1993, entered administration on 13 February 2026. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.

Why it failed

Costly litigation and adjudications, bad debts after two counterparties entered administration, delays, high finance costs and rejected insurance claims left the group unviable.

  • Main reason: Legal claims
  • Clients not paying or failing
  • Delays
  • Market downturn
  • Cash flow

Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.

An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.

Previously known as: FK CONSTRUCTION LIMITED, FK ROOFING SERVICES LIMITED, RICHSCALE LIMITED.

Timeline

The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.

  1. 31 March 2024

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    23 months later

  2. 13 February 2026

    Administration started

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Profit before tax, year to Mar 2024
£1.2m
Accounts at Companies House
Net assets, year to Mar 2024
£12.2m
Accounts at Companies House
Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 13 February 2026
£21.3m
of which trade creditors £18.1m. HMRC owed £1.2m. staff owed £153k. a further £3.0m owed to its lenders. Expected return to unsecured creditors: none expected
Administrators' proposals (includes about £3.1m owed to other group companies)

The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 March 2024, 22 months before it went into administration. Private companies have nine months after their year end to file, so a gap of more than 21 months usually means the next accounts were overdue, one of the warning signs worth checking for.

The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.

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