Our work
What the stages of a renovation actually look like.
Eight worked examples covering the sequence a renovation runs in — strip-out and first fix, structural openings, tiling and plumbing, second-fix joinery in a period house, decoration, and the garden put back at the end. Each one explains what is happening at that stage and why it matters.
About these photographs
Straight answer: the photographs on this page are library images standing in for our own. Our Google profile carries no photographs at all, and we would rather say so than quietly imply that stock imagery is our work. The real thing — hundreds of jobs, photographed on site as they happened — is on Instagram.
A kitchen and dining room, mid-renovation
The stage of a renovation nobody photographs: walls back to brick, services out, and the whole layout still a decision rather than a fact.
The same kind of room, back in use
Units, worktops, services, floor and decoration all landing in one continuous run of work rather than three separate visits a month apart.
Two rooms made into one
A load-bearing wall replaced with steel, the opening made good, and a single room where there used to be two that nobody sat in.
A garden room that gets used in February
The difference between a room on the back of a house and a room you only use in August is insulation, heating and where the glazing faces.
A tiled shower room, wall to floor
Tanking, falls and setting-out done before the first tile — the invisible three days that decide whether a wet room lasts fifteen years or three.
Period doors, architraves and ceilings
Old houses are not square, not plumb and not level. Second-fix joinery in one is a scribing job, not a cutting job.
Skim, seal and paint
The handover between plasterer and decorator is where most finishes are won or lost — easier when they work for the same company.
Paths, paving and the garden put back
Building work wrecks a garden. Landscaping being one of our own services means it gets finished on the same programme rather than left for you to arrange.