What we do
Ten services, one company, one programme.
These are the ten services Cheshire Renovations list, and the reason they can all sit on one page is that the joiners, plumbers, electricians and craftsmen are the company's own. A renovation is sequenced as a single job rather than assembled from whoever happens to be free. Serving Chester and across Cheshire.
01
Full & Part Renovations and Extensions
The whole house or one end of it — groundworks through to the final coat of plaster
The core of what Cheshire Renovations does. Whether it's a whole house stripped back or one end of it opened up and extended, the job is carried by one team from the groundworks to the skim coat — so the programme is ours to keep and there is nobody to hand the blame to.
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02
Structural & Steel Work
Walls out, steels in, everything above still exactly where it should be
Knocking a wall out is the easy half. Carrying what was sitting on it — safely, to a calculation, with the right bearings and padstones — is the half that matters. It's also the first thing that happens on most renovations, so it sets the programme for everything after it.
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03
Plastering & Rendering
The finish that every other trade gets judged by
Plastering is where a renovation stops looking like a building site. It's also completely unforgiving: every hollow, every proud edge and every bad joint shows up the first time low winter sun comes through the window.
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04
Carpentry & Joinery
First fix you never see, second fix you can't stop looking at
Carpentry runs through a renovation twice: once as the structure nobody ever sees again, and once as the doors, skirtings and fitted work people run their hands over every day. Cheshire Renovations employ their own joiners, so both halves come from the same place.
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05
Electrical & Lighting
Rewires, consumer units and a lighting plan made before the plaster goes on
Electrical work is the one trade whose mistakes are expensive to fix later, because fixing them means opening a wall you have just paid to plaster. We plan the lighting and the socket layout before first fix, with you, in the actual rooms.
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06
Plumbing
Pipework, heating and bathrooms — planned with the rest of the job, not around it
Plumbing is the other trade that disappears into the walls and floors. Ours is set out alongside the electrics and the structure, so pipe runs don't end up notched through a joist that's carrying something.
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07
Tiling
Set out from the eye line in, not from the corner out
Tiling is mostly setting out. Which line the eye lands on, where the cuts fall, whether the pattern dies into a corner or into a full tile — all decided before anything is fixed, because it can't be decided afterwards.
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08
Flooring
The layer that has to survive the rest of your life happening on it
A floor fails for one of two reasons: the wrong material for the room, or the right material laid on a subfloor nobody prepared. Both are decided long before delivery day.
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09
Interior Design & Decoration
Working with you to reach ideas you'd not have got to on your own
Cheshire Renovations' own description of how they work is that they work with you to create innovative ideas and reach the result you want at a price you can afford. In practice that's two things: help deciding, and then doing the deciding justice.
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10
Garden Landscaping
The half of the property most builders leave you to sort out afterwards
Most renovations end with a garden that's been used as a materials store for four months. Because landscaping is one of our own services, the outside gets put back — and improved — as part of the same job rather than left as your problem.
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The four things that sit behind all ten.
A service list is only worth anything if the way the work is organised holds it together. These are the parts that do — and each one is Cheshire Renovations' own published position, not a slogan.
Working to the budget you set
Cheshire Renovations' own words are that they work with you to achieve the result you want at a price you can afford. In practice that means an itemised written quotation you can take things out of, and a frank conversation about phasing rather than a single take-it-or-leave-it number.
Ideas, not just instructions
Their stated way of working is to create ideas with the client rather than simply price a brief. That's why design and specification input sits inside the service list, rather than being something you have to arrange separately before the builders arrive.
In-house trades
The joiners, plumbers, electricians and craftsmen on the job are the company's own. It's the reason ten separate services can sit on one list and still be sequenced as a single programme.
Written quotations and variations
Scope is quoted in writing. If something is found mid-job — and on older Chester properties something usually is — the extra work is re-quoted in writing before it is carried out, so nothing arrives unannounced on the final invoice.
Not sure which of these you need?
Most renovations need six or seven of them. Ring the office and describe the house — that's the quickest way to find out.