Home Renovations and Property Refurbishments in East Preston | Reasons to Choose a Professional Team

The pandemic led many homeowners to focus on their properties. The relief in stamp duty led to an upturn in the sector while homeowners throughout the country started to examine their spaces once they ended up stuck inside. The UK property market experienced unprecedented demand as the rest of the economy faltered. Home renovations and property refurbishments took place up and down the UK, and in the local East Preston area.

An amazing 213,120 DIY transactions took place in June 2021 before stamp duty relief tapered off; the largest number since October 1988.

Many of these renovations and refurbishments were DIY projects but some of the homeowners we have met since say that, based on their own results, they would rather have waited to use a professional. Our groundworks, building and landscaping company has since stepped in to correct a series of DIY jobs in East Preston where the owners had plenty of will, but very little skill!

Our builders, bricklayers and tradespeople have been especially busy with exterior work because, during lockdown, people wanted to spend us much time outside as possible. Since our doors opened again, we have seen plenty of demand for new driveways, garden paving and patio laying work. Many of these jobs are undertaken to correct a client’s low-end DIY workmanship.

Home Renovations vs Property Refurbishments

Home renovations in East Preston are more complex in design than property refurbishments. A renovation focuses on a property in major dilapidation and will need structural alterations and repairs. This work is beyond the average homeowner. Property refurbishments are smaller projects where minor areas of damage are made good. A refurbishment can also involve the rebuilding or upgrading of assets with more modern materials whereas a renovation will involve the full replacement or restoration of areas in dilapidation.

Naturally, renovations and refurbishments have crossover points.

Innovate Building is a local groundworks, building and landscaping company with experience in all interior and exterior works. For the inside of an East Preston home, we might have to strip out the entire electrical, plumbing and heating system if the current installation isn’t up to code, or we may need to underpin the property, or remove walls, if a client needs structural changes.

This falls very much into the home renovations category.

With property refurbishments, interior work concentrates more on small repairs to walls, floors and ceilings, plastering and rendering, painting and decorating, remodelling kitchens and bathrooms, restoring the condition of features such as timber staircases, and even undertaking minor roof repairs.

Externally, laying new driveways and garden paving, or using the bricklayers at our building and landscaping company for patio laying, will fall into the refurbishment category unless an older installation in East Preston is in a dangerous condition or has drainage issues which often lead to flooding.

We can provide the groundworks and hard landscaping services you need to bring your home back to a safe, attractive and functional condition.

The Benefits of Renovations and Refurbishments

Property refurbishments can increase the value of a property, which allows a homeowner or an investor to sell on their purchases at a profit. This is affected by a series of variables, however, so you will need to make sure you factor in the costs of a refurbishment against how much value you expect to add to a home. Home renovations cost more, and the chances of earning a return on the initial investment is less likely but not altogether impossible.

With renovations, most people choose to have work done to improve their living circumstances in the same property, not to flip a profit.

Our building and landscaping company will help and advise you on whether it is better to refurbish or renovate your East Preston home.

The builders and the tradespeople on our team, together with our bricklayers, have the skills needed to renovate or refurbish homes to an exceptionally high standard. We guarantee our workmanship, honour material warranties and offer aftercare in the form of property maintenance and repair services.

With exterior work in the East Preston area, you can have new driveways laid with block and brick, garden paving installed in natural stone, or have patio laying undertaken with traditional flagstones and slabs. Innovate Building is conversant with modern groundworks and can clear the site of vegetation, excavate, prepare the ground, create a sub-base and, after compacting the aggregates, can then put down your own choice of paving surface.

Home renovations and property refurbishments are best left to professionals and there isn’t a team more professional than the one at Innovate Building.