Light refurbishment in Hampstead, NW3

We do not publish a price list for light refurbishment in Hampstead. Hampstead light refurbishment is a conversion or village-house interior: kitchen, bathroom, floors and decoration, without opening the carcass. Addresses sit with London Borough of Camden. We visit from Unit 3 Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, then write a proposal against a defined scope. 020 7101 3168.

Internal light refurbishment within existing rooms in Hampstead NW3 often does not need planning permission. London Borough of Camden still controls extract, windows and elevations where conservation, listing or Article 4 apply. We check the address. We do not assume permitted development.

A Hampstead conversion flat — kitchen, bathroom, decoration and floors — is commonly a matter of weeks once materials are dated. A licence to alter extends the lead-in, not the strip-out. Whole-flat interiors in Hampstead NW3 shape the programme. The written programme follows the survey.

A single kitchen or bathroom in Hampstead can often be done around you. A whole-flat programme is usually cleaner if you decant. We will say which after survey. We will say so plainly at survey.

Usually cleaner if you do. A single kitchen or bathroom can often be done around you. We will say which, after survey.

No. A structural opening is not light refurbishment. We will say so at the first visit rather than stretch the brief.

They are timed. Village lanes are not loading bays, and a whole-flat strip needs more drops than a single room. The survey records the vehicle and the drop point.

Where the boards will take it. Failed subfloors and boards too thin to sand are listed at survey. We will not pretend a worn village floor is a new oak finish.

If the work stays inside kitchen, bathroom, decoration and floors, yes. Occupied sequencing is slower than an empty conversion. A structural opening, loft or extension is still not this service, occupied or empty.

The rooms set the baseline and the building moves it. Lath-and-plaster ceilings, floors that need levelling before anything is laid, and a stair that only one trade can use at a time all add days. Listing checks and a freeholder's consent sit ahead of the start rather than inside it. We date the programme after survey and against the written scope.

Not as a default. Sound lime plaster is repaired and prepared rather than covered, because a modern skim over a soft background tends to fail at the edges. Where a wall has blown or been patched badly it is taken back and rebuilt. Which walls fall into which category is recorded at survey, room by room, not decided with a roller in hand.

That is the instruction. The closet kitchen and the bathroom on the original stack are first-fixed together; joinery repairs, boards and decoration close the demise. Splitting the wet rooms from the decoration is how a village stair is protected twice and a late plumber returns to a finished lime ceiling.

It happens, more often in conversions off the High Street than in family houses toward the Heath. The plan stays as it is: kitchen and bathroom if they need it, decoration and floors to one standard, listing checked, the shared stair protected. We write the scope to the void dates you have. We do not invent a package price for a turnaround.

Sometimes, if a kitchen and a bathroom can be kept on the floor you occupy and if the stair can be protected as a living route. A whole-house strip is usually cleaner empty. Village lanes still constrain deliveries either way. We will say which after survey rather than promise that occupancy is free.

A loft, a rear addition, a structural opening between kitchen and reception, the roof, the parapet gutters, and sash boxes on the front elevation. Changing the plan of a listed interior is not this service. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction. Kitchen, bathroom, decoration and floors in the rooms as found are.

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 say so at the first visit rather than taking the instruction and stretching the word. Everything around it — kitchen, bathroom, floors, joinery, decoration and the services those rooms need — is exactly what this service covers.

Because the expensive parts happen once rather than repeatedly. One protection set-up, one strip-out, one first fix across every room in scope, one delivery plan, one skip licence sequence and one decorating phase. Doing a kitchen this year and a bathroom next means paying for all of that twice and living through it twice. The saving is real and it is the main argument for a programme rather than a series of jobs.

Measured in months rather than weeks, and the shape matters more than the number. The lead-in for a licence to alter can be longer than the build. On site, strip-out and first fix move quickly, the wet rooms have fixed sequences with cure times that cannot be compressed, and decoration closes around them. We write dates after surveying, and the biggest risk to them in Hampstead is the consent rather than the work.

Often, and where they are sound it is worth doing. Boards in a village conversion are rarely consistent, though: cut about by earlier plumbing in one room, packed level in another, replaced entirely in a third. We lift where we can at the survey and give an honest view room by room. Patching to match rarely reads well, and we would rather tell you that before you pay for it than after.

Where the kitchen and the only bathroom are both in scope, almost certainly. A programme can be phased around a household, but that lengthens it, costs more and means living with dust and noise for a longer period rather than a shorter one. We give you both versions at the visit with the practical differences spelled out, and the decision is made before the programme is written rather than halfway through it.

They are the things we cannot see without opening up: wiring of unknown vintage behind lime plaster, a subfloor under a boarded room, a waste that may or may not fall correctly. Naming them and carrying them openly is more honest than a single lump sum that quietly absorbs them or a figure that rises in week two. Each one is resolved with you at first fix, when we can finally see what is there.

Sometimes, and it is repriced in writing rather than absorbed. Adding a room during first fix is often efficient because the trades and the protection are already there; adding one after decoration has started is not, because the room has to be re-opened and re-protected. We will tell you honestly which situation you are in, and what it costs, before we do it rather than afterwards.

We do, and that is most of what you are buying. One programme, one point of contact and one account, with the electrician, the plumber, the tiler, the joiner and the decorator sequenced against each other rather than turning up when they can. Separate contractors sequencing themselves is how a finished bathroom gets opened again to run a cable somebody forgot.

Against defined stages set out in the proposal rather than as an open account, so you can see what has been reached before anything is due. Provisional items are only charged if and when they are instructed, at the figure given. We do not ask for large sums ahead of the work, and we would rather explain a stage than issue an invoice that needs interpreting.

That is common and it works, provided we see the specification before it is ordered. A showroom scheme drawn against a rectangle will not survive a village conversion's chimney breast, out-of-square returns and extract constraints, and a delivery that cannot make the stair is a lost week. We mark up what the room will take, and we say in writing what we can stand behind on goods we did not specify.