Full House Refurbishment
From tired 1930s semis to the big detached houses around Canons Park, we take whole properties back to their bones and rebuild them properly — structural work, rewiring, replumbing, new kitchens and bathrooms, flooring and decorating, all run by one project-managed team working right across HA7.
What It Is
Stanmore's housing stock is unusually consistent, and unusually generous. Most of HA7 went up between the wars, so what we are normally working with is a 1930s semi or a mock-Tudor detached house: solid brick walls, suspended timber floors, bay windows, and a plot far bigger than anything you would find closer to town. The bones are almost always good. What has usually had its day is everything inside — ageing wiring, a boiler running on borrowed time, a kitchen bolted onto the back in the eighties, and a layout designed for the way families lived ninety years ago.
A full house refurb deals with all of that as one coordinated project rather than room by room over a decade. On a typical Stanmore house that tends to mean a full rewire and replumb, opening up the rear of the ground floor into a single kitchen-dining space, new bathrooms, insulation brought up to a standard the original builders never imagined, and a decorative finish that finally ties the house together. Because the plots here are deep, a refurb is also the natural moment to look at a rear extension or a loft conversion while the scaffolding is already up.
The difference is in how it is run. Rather than you chasing a builder, an electrician, a plumber and a decorator and hoping they arrive in the right order, we bring every trade together under one roof: one plan, one written quote, one team accountable from the first survey to the final sign-off. The result is a house that suits how you actually live, finished to building-regulations standard, backed by our guarantee — and usually worth considerably more than when we started.
The Full Scope
A full project can cover as much or as little of the house as you need. Here's how the work usually breaks down.
How It Works
We visit, look over the whole property and talk through what you want to achieve, your priorities and your budget — no charge and no obligation.
We pull the scheme together and send a clear written quote, a scope of works and a realistic timeline, so you know exactly what you're getting before anything starts.
We clear the space and get the bones right — structural work, rewiring and pipework — the parts that are hard and costly to change once walls are closed up.
Plastering, the kitchen and bathrooms, flooring, doors and joinery all go in, and the house starts to look like a home again.
Painting, decorating and all the final detailing that pulls the whole project together into one consistent finish.
We go through the work with you, sort any snags, hand over a spotless home — and back it with our 12-month guarantee.
Budgeting
Every refurbishment is priced individually after a survey — there's no honest one-size-fits-all figure, because no two homes (or wish-lists) are the same. These are the main things that move the budget:
Worth Knowing
None of these need to slow you down — we'll guide you through all of them — but it helps to have them on your radar.
Some changes need permission; many fall under permitted development. We'll tell you early which applies to you.
Structural, electrical and plumbing work must meet building regs — we handle compliance and the sign-off.
If you share a wall with neighbours, a party wall agreement may be needed before structural work begins.
Decide early whether you'll move out — for a full refurb it often speeds the job up and keeps costs down.
Good refurbishments take time. A little buffer beats rushing the finish on the home you'll live in for years.
Older homes spring surprises. Setting aside roughly 10% keeps things stress-free if something unexpected turns up.
Where We Work
We work throughout Stanmore and the surrounding HA postcodes, from the conservation-area streets around Old Church Lane and Stanmore Hill to the interwar estates towards Belmont and Queensbury, including:
Good to Know
Yes — the whole of HA7 and the streets around it, including Canons Park, Belmont, Harrow Weald, Queensbury, Edgware and Bushey Heath. We are based a few minutes away in Harrow, so Stanmore is very much home turf. If you are not sure whether we reach you, just ask.
On an interwar Stanmore semi the recurring list is a full rewire, a replumb and a new boiler, damp and ventilation checks to the original solid or early-cavity walls, insulation to the loft and floors, and opening up the back of the ground floor. Original features such as bays, cornicing and timber floors are usually worth keeping, and we will tell you honestly which are salvageable.
It can. Within a conservation area, permitted development rights are often restricted, so changes to windows, roofs, front elevations and boundary walls may need consent even when the same work would be permitted elsewhere. We check the designation and any Article 4 direction before quoting, and coordinate the applications with Harrow Council so there are no surprises mid-build.
Stanmore properties are generally larger than the London average, so a whole-house project here typically runs longer than a flat refurb — usually a few months rather than a few weeks. You get a realistic, staged timeline in writing with your quote, not an optimistic guess.
For a whole-house refurb it is faster, cheaper and a great deal less stressful if the property is empty, particularly during the rewire and the plastering. It is not always essential though, and where people need to stay we phase the work so there is always a usable kitchen and bathroom.
Yes, and on Stanmore plots it very often makes sense. Doing structural work alongside the refurb means one set of scaffolding, one set of disruption and one coordinated building control sign-off, rather than paying for the same setup twice.
Every project carries our 12-month workmanship guarantee and we are fully insured throughout. Payments on larger refurbishments are staged against agreed milestones rather than taken up front, and the full schedule is written down and agreed with you before anyone lifts a tool.
Send us a message or call with a few details about the house and what you are hoping to do. We will arrange a free site survey in Stanmore at a time that suits you, and follow up with a clear, itemised written quote.
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