Revivio Home Improvements logoREVIVIOHome Improvements · South London
020 4614 7891 Get your estimate
Sheet P–05 · Case study

Stratford full flat refurbishment

A complete refurbishment of an apartment in a relatively modern Stratford building — kitchen, bathroom, flooring and internal woodwork all replaced, carried out in roughly four weeks while the client was away, and finished ready for move-in.

Estimate my renovation Full property renovations
New Howdens kitchen in the completed Stratford flat refurbishment, with engineered oak flooring
~4 weeksStart to handover
Full stripKitchen, bathroom, floors, woodwork
Client awayManaged without the client on site
Move-inHanded over ready to occupy
Sheet P–06 · Starting point

A modern building, a dated interior

This apartment sits in a relatively modern building, which changes the nature of the job. The shell was sound and the plan worked; what had aged was everything inside it — the kitchen, the bathroom, the flooring and the internal woodwork.

So this was not a structural project. Rather than major structural alteration, the work was carried out under building-management consent, within the rules that apply to a managed building — which in practice means agreeing access, working hours and deliveries in advance and keeping to them.

Getting the consent and the logistics settled before the first delivery arrives is what keeps a four-week programme to four weeks.

Sheet P–07 · Scope

What was done

Strip-out
A complete strip-out of the kitchen, the bathroom, the flooring and the internal woodwork, taking the flat back to the point where the new work could be set out properly.
Removed: kitchen · bathroom · floors · woodwork
Kitchen
A new Howdens kitchen, installed once the walls and floor behind it had been prepared. What that stage involves is set out in our kitchen renovation guide.
Includes: new Howdens kitchen · prepared substrates
Bathroom
The bathroom was stripped out and rebuilt with new sanitaryware and a new shower enclosure. The sequence we follow — preparation, waterproofing, then finishes — is described in the bathroom renovation guide.
Includes: new sanitaryware · new enclosure
Water pressure
Water-pressure boosting, so the new shower and taps deliver properly rather than being limited by the incoming supply.
Includes: pressure boosting
Flooring and woodwork
Engineered oak flooring throughout, with new skirting and architraves and oak internal doors — fire-rated doors where they were required.
Includes: engineered oak · skirting · architraves · oak and fire-rated doors
Plastering and decoration
Plastering and preparation where it was needed, then complete decoration throughout — the stage that determines whether the finish still looks right a year later.
Includes: making good · preparation · full decoration
Sheet P–09 · How it was run

Four weeks, with the client away

The work ran for approximately four weeks and was carried out while the client was away, which puts the whole burden of sequencing on us: the trades have to follow each other in the right order first time, because there is nobody on site making day-to-day decisions.

That is what the planning and specification stage is for. Everything — kitchen, sanitaryware, flooring, doors, ironmongery, paint — is decided and ordered before the strip-out starts, so the programme is never waiting on a delivery. The property was prepared for the client's move-in at handover.

The full sequence is on how we work. For a larger project run the same way, see the Marylebone flat refurbishment, or read about full property renovations.

Refurbishing a flat before you move in?

Tell us the property and the scope and we will come back with an indicative ballpark.

Estimate my renovation Call 020 4614 7891
Call now Get estimate