A house is renovated from bottom to top
Several floors, your own front door and usually no set of rules telling you what is allowed. The other side of that: you often stay living in it while the work carries on.
Four things that run differently in a house
None of the four is a problem. They do decide the order in which we plan the work.
You live there during the job
Then we work room by room instead of through the whole house at once: dust screens, tidying up every day, and keeping a kitchen and a bathroom usable for as long as possible.
More than one floor
A bathroom upstairs and a kitchen downstairs hang off the same pipework. Where things end up decides whether a floor has to come open, and how much extra work that is.
Your own door and a garden
Materials and rubble do not go through a stairwell that belongs to everybody. That means less disruption, and it allows for larger boards and longer planks.
What is already there
In older houses you meet old circuits, narrow pipes and floors that are out of level. At the survey we say what we expect, and what only shows once it is opened up.
What we do in a house
From a single room to the whole house. Most jobs start with the bathroom or the kitchen and grow into the rest along the way, because it is open anyway.
- Bathroom and toilet completely renewed
- Kitchen out, connections in the new place, kitchen in
- Walls removed or added for a different layout
- An attic or an extra bedroom finished off
- Plastering, painting and woodwork throughout the house
- Electrics and lighting in line with the new plan
In one go or in stages
An empty house we run in one pass: everything open, everything at once, and the finishing at the end. That is the fastest way, because no time goes into setting up and packing down.
If you are living there, we do it room by room. That takes longer, and you hear it beforehand, not afterwards. Which of the two it becomes is your call at the survey.
How we workWhat do you want to tackle?
Tell us which rooms it is about, and we will come and take measurements.