Full house refurbishment & rear extension
RM6, Essex · Home Renovations + Extension
Our services
Home Renovations
Full house refurbishments, kitchens and bathrooms — delivered by a single contractor.
Overview
Full house refurbishments, kitchens and bathrooms — delivered by a single contractor.
Full refurbishment is the work we're known for. A typical project starts with a property that hasn't been touched in twenty or thirty years — structurally sound, dated everywhere else. We strip it back, resolve the layout, rewire and replumb, and rebuild it to a specification agreed in detail before we start.
Kitchens and bathrooms form part of most refurbishments, and we deliver them as standalone projects too. Where the layout changes — removing the wall between kitchen and dining room, relocating a bathroom — that's structural and drainage work, engineered and priced properly rather than treated as a fit-out.
Our director oversees every project personally; on a build running three to five months, that continuity is the difference between a programme that holds and one that drifts.
Scope
What's included, and what isn't
What's included
- Full strip-out & removal
- Structural alterations & steelwork
- Full rewire, certified
- Full replumb, heating, radiators or UFH
- Drainage alterations
- Kitchen installation incl. appliance integration
- Bathroom installation, tiling & waterproofing
- Plastering throughout
- Flooring
- Bespoke joinery — staircases, feature walls, fitted storage
- Decoration throughout
- Building control sign-off
What's not included
- Kitchen units, worktops & appliances (client supply)
- Sanitaryware, brassware & tiles (client selection)
- Furniture & window dressings
- Local authority fees
- Separate structural engineer appointments where required
Types of work
The options we build
Full house refurbishment
Strip-out to brick and joist where needed, layout resolved, rewired and replumbed, then rebuilt to an agreed specification with decoration and joinery throughout.
Kitchens
Removal, first fix, appliance integration, worktop templating and installation — coordinated with your supplier so the programme holds.
Bathrooms
Full tanking and waterproofing, tiling, underfloor heating and sanitaryware installation, finished to a standard that lasts.
Structural alterations
Opening up ground floors, removing load-bearing walls, steelwork and drainage moves — engineered, calculated and inspected.
Local knowledge
Planning & building regulations in our area
Internal refurbishment generally doesn't need planning permission, but building regulations approval is required for structural alterations, rewiring, new drainage, heating installations and replacement windows. Removing a load-bearing wall requires structural calculations and building control inspection. In conservation areas, external works — replacement windows, render, external doors — need consent even where internal work doesn't.
Our process
How a project runs
- 1
Free site visit
We walk the whole property with you, room by room, and talk through what you want to change and what is worth keeping.
- 2
Scope & specification
A written room-by-room specification — what is stripped, what is retained, and the standard of finish — so the quotation means something.
- 3
Design & layout
Drawings where the layout changes, coordinated with your architect or interior designer, or through our design partners.
- 4
Structural engineering where needed
Calculations for removing load-bearing walls, new steelwork and any drainage moves, plus a building regs application.
- 5
Fixed written quotation & programme
A detailed pricing schedule with provisional sums clearly identified, and a written programme by trade.
- 6
Selections & lead times
Kitchen, sanitaryware, tiles and flooring chosen and ordered early, with a cut-off date on the programme so nothing holds the site up.
- 7
Strip-out & protection
Floors, stairs and retained finishes protected, then strip-out to brick and joist where the specification calls for it, with waste removed as we go.
- 8
Structural works
Steels installed and propped, openings formed, drainage altered and inspected before anything is closed up.
- 9
First fix
Full rewire, replumb, heating or underfloor, and new drainage runs — all certified and inspected.
- 10
Plastering & screeds
Boarding, skim and floor build-up throughout, then a drying period built into the programme rather than rushed.
- 11
Second fix & joinery
Kitchen and bathroom installation, tiling and waterproofing, flooring, bespoke joinery and decoration.
- 12
Snagging & handover
We walk the property with you, agree a snag list, close it out, then hand over certificates and our workmanship guarantee.
Typical timescales
Full house refurbishment: 12–20 weeks depending on size and structural scope. Kitchen: 4–6 weeks. Bathroom: 2–3 weeks.
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