Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire
Home renovations in Newton Mearns
Renovations in Newton Mearns are usually about reorganising a house rather than rescuing one. The properties are structurally sound and generously sized; what dates them is a layout drawn for how families lived in 1975, with small separate rooms where people now want one big one.
Opening up, and what it involves
Taking out the wall between a kitchen and dining room is the most common brief we get here. If it is load-bearing, that means a structural engineer's calculations, a building warrant, a steel and a propping sequence, and it lengthens the programme considerably. We establish whether the wall is structural before you spend anything on drawings.
Doing several rooms at once is cheaper
If you know the bathroom is coming in eighteen months, doing it during the main renovation is significantly cheaper than as a separate project. The trades are already on site, the access and protection are already set up, and you only live through the disruption once. The same applies to rewiring, flooring and internal doors.
Getting the invisible work done while you can
While floors are up and walls are open, adding underfloor heating, improving insulation, running cabling for future use and upgrading the consumer unit costs a fraction of what it does later. These are the decisions people most often regret not making, because the opportunity closes when the plasterer arrives.
How a project is run
One schedule, one point of contact, and every trade coordinated by us: structural engineer, builder, plumber, gas engineer, electrician, plasterer, tiler and decorator. You are told what is happening the following week rather than finding out when somebody turns up at the door.