Light refurbishment in North West London

We do not publish standard prices for light refurbishment. Period fabric, access, extract, tenure and consent in Hampstead, St John's Wood, Maida Vale and the wider list change the figure. We visit, then write a proposal against a defined scope. 020 7101 3168.

Internal light refurbishment within existing rooms often does not need planning permission. Conservation-area, listed-building, Article 4 and freeholder rules still apply to extract, windows and elevations. We check the address. We do not assume permitted development in Hampstead, Highgate or Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Light Refurbishment pages on this site cover Hampstead, West Hampstead, Belsize Park, St John's Wood, Maida Vale, Swiss Cottage, Primrose Hill, Highgate and the wider list. If the property sits just outside those pages, contact us and we will say whether we can take it on.

Tell us the property and whether kitchen, bathroom, decoration and floors sit in one brief. We visit, write what is in and what is out, and say if the work is actually structural. We do not quote from photographs.

Structural openings, loft conversions, extensions and basement works. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction. We will say so at the first visit rather than stretch the word.

Often, if the plan stays as it is: kitchen and bathroom if they need it, decoration and floors to one standard, one programme and one account.

Of the rooms in scope, yes — coordinated with the existing installation. A speculative whole-house strip is not assumed. Hidden services are listed as provisional items after survey.

Yes. Shared stairs and hallways are written into the method. The demise is one programme; the stair is a separate instruction unless the freeholder is the client.

Light refurbishment keeps the structure. Kitchen, bathroom, decoration, floors and the services those rooms need. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction.

Yes. The plan stays as it is. Kitchen and bathroom replaced, floors and decoration brought to one standard, the building's hours and licence-to-alter process followed. We do not alter the carcass.

Redecoration, flooring, joinery, kitchen and bathroom swaps, and the electrical and plumbing coordination those rooms require. It is the work that refreshes a home without changing its structure. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction.

Yes, if the work stays within that definition. A typical mansion-block or conversion flat — kitchen, bathroom, decoration, floors — is core work for us. A project that removes walls, drops a floor or adds a storey is not.

Yes. The point of a light-refurbishment instruction is one programme and one account, not a collection of separate contractors you have to sequence yourself.

Yes. Fully insured.

We stop, show you, and write a variation before continuing. Hidden damp, failed joists or redundant wiring are the usual finds in this housing stock. They are not used as a blank cheque.

No. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction. We will introduce you rather than take a project we do not deliver.

Often, for kitchen or bathroom replacement in a leasehold flat. We can prepare drawings and a method statement. Consent is the freeholder's or agent's, not ours. Notices are started in the lead-in, not after strip-out.

Yes. That is the point of the instruction. Wet rooms run first; decoration closes the house. Separate contractors sequencing themselves is how finishes get damaged.

Where the boards will take it. Failed subfloors, previous bitumen and boards too thin to sand are listed at survey. New timber, engineered or stone finishes are specified in generic categories, not as brand partnerships.

A conversion flat — kitchen, bathroom, decoration and floors — is commonly a matter of weeks once materials are dated, not a day-rate that drifts. A storey of a family house, or a mansion apartment waiting on a licence to alter, takes longer. The written programme follows the survey.

Yes. An empty conversion or mansion-flat apartment between lets is ordinary work: kitchen and bathroom if they need it, decoration and floors to one standard, one programme and one account. We will not pad a refresh into a structural project.