Landlord Property Refurbishment Across Greater Manchester

What a full landlord refurbishment includes

Most of the properties we take on for landlords arrive in one of two states: a tired let that has been patched between tenancies for a decade, or a recently purchased property that needs everything doing before it can be marketed. Either way the answer is the same — strip it back, fix the fabric, then fit it out.

We run the whole thing as a single contract. That means one point of contact, one programme, one final invoice, and no gaps between trades where a job stalls for a fortnight because the plasterer is waiting on the electrician.

• Strip-out, skip management and waste transfer notes
• First-fix electrics, full or partial rewires and consumer unit upgrades
• Plumbing, boiler replacement and heating system upgrades
• Structural alterations, steel beams and wall removals where the layout needs changing
• Plastering, joinery, flooring and full internal decoration
• Kitchen and bathroom supply and installation
• Damp treatment, ventilation and extraction to current standards
• Final clean and photography-ready handover

Refurbishment that pays for itself

The refurbishment decisions that increase rent are not always the expensive ones. A second bathroom in a four or five bed house usually returns more than a designer kitchen. A knock-through that turns a poky rear kitchen into an open plan kitchen-diner will move a property up a rental bracket for a fraction of the cost of an extension.

We have refurbished enough rental stock across Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bolton and Oldham to know where the money goes furthest in each area. Before we quote, we will tell you which items on your wish list will actually change the rent and which ones will simply cost you money.

Specification built for tenants, not showrooms

Rental properties get used harder than owner-occupied homes. We specify accordingly: rigid kitchen carcasses rather than flat-pack, porcelain tiling instead of ceramic in wet areas, solid-core internal doors, scrubbable paint finishes and taps and mixers from ranges where spares are still available in five years.

That approach costs marginally more on day one and considerably less across three tenancies. It also means a mid-tenancy repair is a part swap rather than a full replacement.

Compliance and paperwork

Landlord refurbishments carry a compliance trail. We coordinate the EICR and issue electrical certification, install interlinked smoke and heat alarms, fit extraction that meets Part F, notify Building Control where structural work or new bathrooms require it, and hand over Gas Safe documentation for any heating work.

Where a property is being brought up to HMO standard, we work to the relevant council's licensing schedule — the requirements differ between Manchester, Salford and Stockport, and we check the local standard rather than assuming.