Full house renovation
Whole-property refurbishment, sequenced so you are not living around a half-finished house for longer than necessary. Structure, services, then finishes — in that order.
Sixteen trades, one point of contact, one quote. The usual renovation failure is not bad workmanship — it is three separate contractors each blaming the other for the same gap between their work. Everything below sits under one contract, so that gap stays ours.
These are the jobs where sequencing matters more than any single trade. Get the order wrong and you plaster before the wiring, or lay a floor before the roof is watertight.
Whole-property refurbishment, sequenced so you are not living around a half-finished house for longer than necessary. Structure, services, then finishes — in that order.
Single and double storey, with planning, Building Regulations and party wall notices handled. Most single-storey rear extensions fall within permitted development — we check before you pay for drawings.
Dormer and hip-to-gable. We measure head height at survey, because on a 1930s Worcester semi that number decides whether you get a room or an expensive cupboard.
Usually the cheapest square metres in a Worcester house — provided the floor level, damp detail and insulation are done properly rather than boarded over.
Cellars into usable rooms, with tanking specified for the ground you actually have rather than a standard detail applied everywhere.
Self-contained accommodation for family or letting, built to the right regulations from the start — which is a different specification from a garden room.
Design, supply and fit. The value is usually in the moves that make the layout work — not in the units, which is where most quotes concentrate.
Full refits, including the plumbing routes through solid walls and suspended timber floors that decide whether the ceiling below survives.
Complete installation from strip-out to final seal, with the first-fix set out before any tiling begins.
Worcester terraces have small bathrooms. Getting a usable room out of one is a layout problem before it is a product problem.
Properly formed falls and full tanking. A wet room that leaks is not a plumbing fault, it is a waterproofing one.
Level access, grab rails set into solid backing, and layouts that work for a wheelchair or a carer — for households staying in the home they want.
Specified against your actual water pressure and system type, which is why some installations disappoint and others do not.
Turning the two most under-used spaces in a Worcester house into rooms that are warm, dry and legal.
Design and construction under one contract, so there is nobody to blame between the drawing and the building.
We take these on their own as well as part of a larger job. On an older Worcester property several of them are specification decisions rather than shopping decisions.
Structural openings, brickwork, groundworks and the work that holds everything else up.
Gypsum where it belongs and lime where the wall needs to breathe — which on pre-1930 solid brick it usually does.
Timber, engineered, tile and vinyl, laid on a subfloor that has been checked rather than assumed.
Set out from the centre and the eye line, not from the corner — the difference you notice every day afterwards.
Wet and electric systems, specified against the floor build-up and the insulation actually present below.
Replacement units flashed properly into the opening. In a conservation area, timber like for like rather than uPVC.
In cost order it is usually garage conversion, then loft, then extension — but the right answer depends on your house. A garage conversion gives you a room on the ground floor where the plot allows nothing else. A loft gives a bedroom without losing garden. An extension gives the most space and costs the most. We look at all three at survey and tell you which your property actually supports.
Yes. Plastering, flooring, tiling, a bathroom or a kitchen on its own are all normal work for us. The reason we push the single-contract route on bigger jobs is not sales — it is that the gaps between separate contractors are where renovations go wrong.
Yes, including party wall notices where they apply, which on Worcester’s terraces and semis is more often than people expect. Notice periods run to two months, so we start them at design stage rather than discovering them at the point everyone thought work was beginning.
Tell us what is wrong with the house. We will tell you which work fixes it, and what it costs.