Built around lettings
Refurbishment contractors who understand rental property
Every day a property sits empty costs you money, and every corner cut on specification costs you again in eighteen months. We plan refurbishments around void periods and specify to survive tenants, not to win photography awards.
Most of our work comes from landlords, portfolio owners and managing agents across Greater Manchester. Some are buying at auction and need a property brought from unmortgageable to lettable. Others have held stock for fifteen years and have reached the point where patching between tenancies no longer works.
Either way, the commercial question is the same: what should you spend, where, and what will it return? We answer that before quoting. If a £14,000 kitchen will not move the achievable rent in that postcode, we will say so and suggest where the money should go instead — usually a second bathroom, a knock-through, or fixing the fabric properly.
Where landlord money works hardest
Across the areas we cover, four jobs consistently return more than they cost: adding a second bathroom to a four-plus bedroom house; opening up a cramped rear kitchen into an open plan kitchen-diner; removing redundant chimney breasts to make small bedrooms genuinely usable; and replacing a dated bathroom, which is the single most common reason a viewing does not convert.
Compliance handled
Refurbishment carries a paper trail. We coordinate the EICR, install interlinked smoke and heat alarms, upgrade extraction to meet current ventilation requirements, notify Building Control for structural work and new bathrooms, and issue Gas Safe documentation for heating works. You get the certificates at handover, in one pack.
Landlord Property Refurbishment
Full refurbishments for buy-to-let landlords, portfolio owners and letting agents — planned around void periods, priced up front, and finished to a standard that lets quickly and stands up to tenants.
Structural Work & Load-Bearing Wall Removal
Removing walls, installing steel beams and opening up ground floors — designed by a structural engineer, built by our own team, and signed off by Building Control.
Chimney Breast Removal
Reclaim the floor space a redundant chimney breast is wasting — removed safely with proper structural support and full Building Control certification.
Kitchen Renovations
Complete kitchen renovations — design, strip-out, first fix, fitting and finishing — with specifications built for the property and the tenant, not the showroom.
Bathroom Renovations
Complete bathroom renovations from strip-out to final seal — waterproofed properly, tiled properly, and finished in seven to ten working days.
FAQs
Landlord questions
Do you offer portfolio pricing?
Yes. Where a landlord has several properties to refurbish in a year, we hold a consistent specification and rate card across the portfolio and sequence the works so voids do not overlap.
Can you work to a letting agent's schedule?
We do a lot of work introduced by letting agents and managing agents. We work to the agent's changeover dates and report progress directly to them if that is easier for you.
Will the work meet HMO licensing standards?
We build to the relevant council's HMO standard — fire doors, interlinked alarms, fire-rated ceilings, adequate bathroom provision and ventilation. Requirements vary between Manchester, Salford and Stockport, so we check the local schedule rather than assuming.
What certification do I get at handover?
EICR and electrical installation certificates, Gas Safe documentation for any heating work, Building Control completion certificates for structural work, and product warranties for kitchens, boilers and sanitaryware.
Get your next void priced properly
Tell us about the property and the work you need. We survey, price properly, and give you a dated programme — no estimates that drift.