Full House Refurbishment
Willesden is Victorian and Edwardian terrace country, much of it long since carved into flats. We refurbish whole houses and whole conversions across NW10 — structure, services, kitchens, bathrooms and finishes, run by one team.
What It Is
The NW10 housing stock is dominated by late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and a large share of them were converted into flats decades ago, often before anyone worried much about sound insulation, fire separation or where the soil pipe ended up. That shapes the refurbishment work here. Alongside the usual rewire, replumb and replaster, we spend a lot of time in Willesden undoing awkward past conversions: reinstating sensible layouts, sorting fire doors and compartmentation, and putting acoustic separation between floors that never had any.
Where a house is still a single dwelling, the work is more familiar — damp and ventilation to solid walls, a rear return opened into a kitchen-dining space, loft converted where the roof allows, and the whole property brought up to a modern standard of insulation and wiring. Willesden Green in particular has good-sized houses whose original proportions are worth restoring rather than fighting.
Whichever it is, the value is in running it as one project. Instead of you coordinating a builder, an electrician, a plumber and a decorator and hoping the sequence holds, every trade works to one plan and one written quote, with one team accountable from the first survey to the final sign-off.
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 refurbish whole properties throughout Willesden and the surrounding NW postcodes, including the conversion-heavy streets around Willesden Green and Kensal Rise:
Good to Know
Yes — the whole of NW10 and the streets around it, including Willesden Green, Kensal Green, Kensal Rise, Dollis Hill, Neasden, Harlesden and Cricklewood. It is a regular patch for us.
Both are jobs we do. Reinstating a house back to a single dwelling is common in NW10 and usually involves removing added kitchens and bathrooms, rerouting services, and making good the floors and walls where partitions came out. If you are keeping it as flats, we focus on fire separation, acoustic insulation and giving each unit sensible, independent services.
A full rewire and replumb almost always, damp and ventilation work to the original solid walls, clearing blocked sub-floor vents, roof and gutter repairs, and insulation to the loft and floors. Then the layout: opening the rear return into a kitchen-dining space is the single most common structural change we make here.
We build to the standards your licence requires — fire doors, alarm systems, escape routes, room sizes and amenity ratios — but the licence application itself is between you and Brent Council. Tell us at survey stage that it is an HMO and we will specify accordingly rather than have to redo work later.
Yes, and in Willesden it is one of the most requested items. Older conversions often have almost nothing between floors. During a refurb, when floors are up anyway, is by far the cheapest and most effective time to add proper acoustic treatment.
Every project carries our 12-month workmanship guarantee and we are fully insured. Larger refurbishments are paid in stages against agreed milestones, never all up front, and the schedule is written down before work starts.
Message or call with the address and a rough idea of scope. We will book a free survey in Willesden and come back with an itemised written quote.
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Tell us about the property and get a free, no-obligation quote for your full house refurbishment in Willesden — from a team that sees it through from the first survey to the final sign-off.