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Renovations

Room-by-Room and Whole-Property Renovation Work

A renovation is really a sequence problem. Any single trade in it is straightforward on its own; what decides whether the job runs to time is the order things happen in, and what has to be finished before the next stage can start.

MR HANDY takes on renovation work room by room or across a whole property — kitchens, bathrooms, tiling, flooring, plastering, joinery and decorating, handled as one job with one person accountable for it. Gas, notifiable electrical work and bathroom plumbing connections are carried out by registered trades and scheduled into the sequence rather than left to chance.

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Bathroom with a herringbone wood-effect floor, wall-hung vanity basin, freestanding bath and a round mirror

What's Included

What We Can Help With

The work most often requested under renovations.
  • Kitchen renovations
  • Bathroom renovations
  • Wall and floor tiling
  • Flooring throughout a property
  • Plastering and skimming
  • Painting and decorating
  • Joinery, skirting and architrave
  • Wall repairs and making good
  • Removing old kitchens, bathrooms and fittings
  • General building and maintenance work
  • Preparing a property before sale or letting

Worth Knowing

Sequence Is What Makes a Renovation Work

Work runs from the messiest trade to the most delicate. Strip-out first, then anything structural, then first-fix services while the walls are still open, then plastering, then flooring, then second-fix, and decorating last. Decorating last is not a preference — paint applied before the dust-making trades have finished simply gets done twice.

Bathrooms are the tightest sequence of the lot. Tiling cannot start until the walls are sound and the pipework is set, and the pipework position depends on the actual sanitaryware being on site rather than assumed from a brochure. Getting everything ordered before the first day is worth more than it sounds, because one missing waste kit can stop a bathroom for a week.

Tiling deserves its own attention because it is unforgiving. Tiles follow the wall behind them, so an out-of-plumb wall shows up in every grout line, and the first row sets the alignment for everything above it. On floors the substrate has to be rigid — tiles laid over a floor that flexes will crack along the joints whatever adhesive is used.

Where a renovation involves gas, new circuits or consumer unit work, that is notifiable work for a registered installer. Those slots are planned into the programme early, because finding them halfway through means finished work coming back out. The water-side plumbing — basins, toilets, baths, showers and wastes — and minor electrical work on existing circuits are handled as part of the job.

In Practice

Typical Jobs

Real examples of the kind of job this covers.
  • Renovating a bathroom from strip-out through to decorating
  • Refitting a kitchen including flooring and tiling
  • Tiling a bathroom, splashback or kitchen wall
  • Bringing a tired room back with plastering, flooring and decorating
  • Renovating a property room by room while it stays occupied
  • Preparing an inherited or empty property for sale

On Video

Renovations on the Job

Filmed on our own jobs. Press play to load a clip — nothing starts on its own.

  • A Customer on the Finished Job

    Filmed at the end of a full house refurbishment — flooring throughout and every room repainted. Muhammad is asked on camera what he made of the work and what he made of the price, and the clip then walks through the finished rooms.

  • A House Stripped Back

    The start of a renovation: wallpaper off, old doors taken out and the floors back to bare boards.

  • Walls Filled, Ready to Decorate

    The same house part-way through, with the walls stripped, filled and sanded and the stairwell taken back ready for decorating.

Gallery

Renovations Work

Photographs from our own jobs. Preparation shots are labelled — they show what a job starts from, not the finish.
  • Fitted kitchen with white gloss units, black worktops, a built-in oven and grey stone-effect flooring
  • Shower room with grey stone-effect wall panels, a glass shower enclosure, pedestal basin and toilet
  • Entrance hall seen from the open front door, with large marble-effect floor tiles, charcoal carpet running up the stairs and white painted walls
  • Empty reception room tiled throughout in marble-effect porcelain, with white walls and a built-in cupboard beside the chimney breast
  • Blown plaster stripped back to the brickwork on a living room wall, before replastering
    Preparation
  • Living room stripped of wallpaper with the walls filled and dust sheets down, before skimming and decorating
    Preparation
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Why MR HANDY

Why Use MR HANDY for Renovation Work

You deal with one person across the whole job rather than coordinating separate trades yourself. Where a registered trade is needed it is identified at quote stage and booked into the sequence, so you know who is doing what and when.

The programme is set out honestly, including which parts of the property will be out of use and for how long. A bathroom that is unusable for a fortnight is manageable when it is expected and a serious problem when it is not.

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Available Across

Renovations is carried out for homeowners and landlords across every area listed here.

Just outside these areas? Ask — coverage is not a hard boundary.

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Questions

Renovations FAQs

If your question is not here, ask — you will get a straight answer.
How long does a bathroom renovation take?
Most domestic bathrooms are a one to two week programme once all the materials are on site, but the honest answer depends on what comes off the walls. A straight swap of like-for-like sanitaryware is quick; discovering rotten timber or failed plaster behind the old tiles adds days. You will get a realistic programme rather than an optimistic one.
Do you handle the plumbing and electrics as well?
The water-side plumbing — basins, toilets, baths, showers and wastes — and minor electrical work such as sockets, switches and light fittings are covered. Gas work needs a Gas Safe registered engineer, and new circuits, consumer unit changes or electrical alterations within a bathroom need a registered electrician; those specialist slots are planned into the sequence so nothing has to come back out.
Can we stay in the property while the work is done?
Usually yes, provided the work is sequenced room by room. A single bathroom is the awkward case, because there will be a period without it — if that is a problem it is worth saying at quote stage so the programme can be compressed around it.
Do you take on tiling as a job on its own?
Yes. Tiling does not have to be part of a full renovation — a bathroom retile, a kitchen splashback or a tiled floor are all fine as standalone jobs. Tell us the area and the tile you have chosen, because tile size and format change both the preparation and the time.
Can you renovate one room rather than a whole house?
Yes, and it is the most common request. A single room brought properly up to standard is often better value than spreading a budget thinly across a whole property.

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Send a description or a few photographs and you will get a clear, no-obligation price.

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