Renovations & Refurbishments in Rugby, priced in writing before anything starts.
A full renovation is the job where the survey earns its money, because on the older Rugby stock the scope written at the start is rarely the scope at the end. The terraces near the town centre routinely turn up previous alterations that were never certified, a floor structure that has already been cut about, or wiring that predates the current owner by decades.
We would rather find those at quote stage than at week three, so we open up and look before we price where the property allows it, and we say plainly which items are known and which are provisional.
You get a price in writing before anything starts, and we see Building Control through to sign off. The full process is on our renovations and refurbishments page.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Rugby Borough Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our renovations & refurbishments page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Rugby street to the next.
Renovation inside an existing footprint is usually not a planning matter, but a renovation is also the work most likely to uncover something that is: an earlier alteration with no consent, or an element that engages the Regulations once it is disturbed.
Structural openings, thermal elements, electrical work and drainage all fall under the Building Regulations, and we arrange and meet those inspections through to sign off.
A whole-house refurbishment is the one job where the honest first question is whether you are living in it.
If you are, the programme changes: we work room by room, keep a kitchen and a bathroom in commission for as long as possible, and seal off the active areas. If the house is empty we can run trades in parallel and the job is materially quicker and cheaper.
On the terraces near the centre the skip stands on the road for most of the strip-out phase, which needs a council licence, and the volume over a full renovation means more than one exchange rather than a single skip.
Part of our wider building work in Rugby.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
