12/05/2026
Part 1.
How we started renovating a 4-floor house in central London… and nearly fu**ed ourselves 😅
A huge property with a basement, lounge area, garden, and a sale price of around £1.3–1.5 million 👀
The previous builders were sleeping, smoking w**d and drinking alcohol right on site.
And at that point, we didn’t even really have a proper team ready for projects of that scale 😄
Honestly? Back then we didn’t fully understand what we were getting ourselves into.
Time to show one of the most interesting projects we had in 2025.
A full renovation of a historic residential property in Kennington, London — including major internal restoration and refurbishment works throughout the house.
We first met the client in Hull, where we had done a few smaller jobs for him before. He also owned property in London, and at some point he asked us to take on a much more serious project.
The house had been in his ownership for many years, but eventually he decided to prepare it for sale.
To be honest, me and my partner had serious doubts at the beginning 😄
It was far from home, and at that time we didn’t yet have a team ready to move to London and live there for several months during the works.
For us, this was the first project of this scale in London.
We travelled to London multiple times:
— inspected the property
— calculated the scope of works
— planned how to organise everything
— worked out budgets and renovation stages
The house was already under renovation, but the previous teams honestly worked terribly. The owner was often away from the property, so the situation became pretty typical 😅
People spent more time sleeping, smoking w**d and drinking than actually working.
At some point the client got fed up with it all and decided to find a team that would actually work instead of just “being on site”.
In the end, we took full control of the property and slowly started rebuilding and organising the entire process.
This project included almost everything:
✔ electrical works
✔ plumbing
✔ plastering and painting
✔ restoration of doors, skirting and woodwork
✔ vinyl flooring and engineered wood flooring
✔ interior and exterior works
✔ tiling at the front entrance and back garden
✔ gate installation
✔ roof repairs
✔ door replacements
✔ installation of a new kitchen worktop
✔ a large amount of electrical upgrades
✔ preparing the house for sale
In the end, we earned very little money from this project 😅
But we gained a huge amount of experience, content, stress, mistakes, and understanding of how large renovation projects in London actually work.
And this was only the beginning 👀
In the next posts I’ll show:
— the renovation process
— the problems we faced
— whether we actually managed to pull it off 😄
— and the final result after restoration.
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