Light refurbishment in West Hampstead, NW6

We do not publish a price list for light refurbishment in West Hampstead. West Hampstead light refurbishment is the conversion-flat brief: rear-return kitchen, stacked bathroom, decoration and floors as one programme. 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 West Hampstead NW6 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 West 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. Rear-return conversions in West Hampstead NW6 shape the programme. The written programme follows the survey.

A single kitchen or bathroom in West 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.

That is the point of the instruction. Wet trades first, paint last, one account.

A single wet room, often. A whole-flat programme is usually cleaner if you decant. We will say after survey.

That is the local type. Both rooms sit in the same programme, with the hallway protected.

No. We licence a residential side street. A whole-flat strip produces more waste than a kitchen-only job, so the drop is programmed, not hoped for on West End Lane.

They change the hours and the protection of the shared stair. The rooms still sit in one programme: rear-return kitchen, half-landing bathroom, decoration and floors. We do not treat neighbour notice as optional.

There is no price list on this site, and there will not be one. What moves a West Hampstead figure is the condition of the existing services, whether the floors need levelling, how much of the fit-out has to be handled through a single shared front door, and the specification you choose for the two wet rooms. We visit, then write a proposal against a defined scope.

Yes. The demise stays as it was split: rear-return kitchen on the ground or garden floor, or a former-bedroom kitchen under the eaves on the top floor, bathroom, decoration and floors, one programme, neighbour notice, a hallway that is not a store. We write the scope to the void dates you have. We do not invent a package price.

Where they will take it. Failed subfloors and boards too thin to sand are listed at survey. A top-floor eaves bathroom is a different construction from a garden-floor return, so we do not specify one sanded standard across every floor of the terrace. We will not promise a finish from a photograph.

The rooms set the baseline. What moves it is the floor you own — a full-height return is a different programme from an eaves bathroom — the shared front door, and whatever is found under the boards. The licence sits in the lead-in. We date the programme after survey against the written scope, not from West End Lane.

The common stair, the front door, the roof, the rear elevation, and a widened opening between reception and kitchen. 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 inside the demise as it stands are this service. We do not form a new envelope behind the terrace.

Because if the bathroom, the floors or the decoration are going to be done within two or three years anyway, doing them together is materially cheaper and much less disruptive. One protection set-up, one strip-out, one first fix, one decorating phase. If the kitchen is genuinely all you want, we will quote the kitchen. We would rather show you both figures at the visit than assume either way.

In a one- or two-bedroom conversion with a single kitchen and a single bathroom, we would generally advise against it. A programme can be phased around a household, but that makes it longer, more expensive and more uncomfortable rather than less. We price both at the visit with the practical differences set out, so the decision rests on real numbers instead of optimism about how bad a fortnight can be.

Anything structural: forming openings, removing walls, 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. Also excluded are works to the building's shared fabric beyond your demise, and redecoration of the common hall unless the freeholder instructs that separately. We write what is in and what is out before anything is ordered, because that boundary is where refurbishments go wrong.

Usually, and it is one of the real benefits of doing the flat as one programme. Conversion floors step between the main house and the rear return, and doing rooms separately means living with thresholds nobody would choose. We take levels across the whole flat at the survey and say what it takes to run one finish through. It is ordinary work, it is priced as work, and it changes how the flat feels.

With boarding and covering designed to last the programme rather than the first fortnight, inspected and repaired as it wears. It goes down before anything is carried and comes up at handover, when it is checked against the photographs taken on day one. We keep the hall clear every evening for the whole job. In a house of three flats, that consistency over two months is what your neighbours will remember.

Enough to matter, and we would rather show you the two figures than assert it. The saving comes from the expensive parts happening once: one protection set-up, one strip-out, one first fix across every room, one delivery and skip plan, one decorating phase. In a conversion flat where the shared hall has to be protected for each visit, that duplication is a real cost rather than a theoretical one.

Usually, and it is one of the strongest arguments for a programme. Conversion floors step between the main house and the rear return, and doing rooms separately means accepting thresholds nobody would choose. We take levels across the whole flat at the survey and say what it takes to run one finish through. It is ordinary work, priced as work, and it changes how the flat feels.

Yes, and for a full programme in a flat this size it is usually the right answer. We agree key-holding and access formally, keep you updated at set points, and hold decisions that genuinely need you. Empty, the work runs continuously and the strip-out is far faster. The neighbours and the freeholder are dealt with in the usual way rather than left for you to manage remotely.

Give them the shape of the job at the start rather than a vague warning, name the loud weeks rather than the loud days, and keep the shared hall clear every evening for the whole programme rather than the first fortnight. In a house of three flats a refurbishment tests a neighbour relationship in a way a single kitchen does not, and that consistency is what keeps it civil.