The brief
A standard single-let buy-to-let needing a full refurbishment between tenancies — new kitchen, new bathroom, redecoration throughout and the rear garden bringing back into use.
Back-to-brick renovations · Stoke-on-Trent
Buy-to-let refurbishment
A single-let refurbishment taken from tired to tenant-ready
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent
- 1
- Kitchen and bathroom replaced
- Full
- Redecoration throughout
The challenge
Void periods cost money, so the whole job had to be sequenced tightly. Every week the property sits empty is a week of lost rent that no amount of finish quality makes back.
The result
New kitchen and bathroom, redecorated throughout, and a rear garden with new paving, fencing and dedicated bin storage.
What we actually did
Not every landlord project is an HMO. A good proportion of our work is straightforward single-let refurbishment — the jobs that need doing properly and quickly between tenancies.
Sequencing beats speed
The thing that shortens a void isn’t working faster, it’s not waiting.
Kitchen and bathroom ordered and delivered before the strip-out started. Decorating scheduled around the trades rather than after all of them. Flooring last, so it doesn’t get damaged and need replacing.
The bathroom
Marble-effect panelling around the bath rather than tiling.
It fits in a day instead of three, there’s no grout to fail, and it doesn’t need re-grouting between tenancies. In a rental this is straightforwardly the better choice — the argument for tiling is largely aesthetic, and modern panelling has mostly closed that gap.
The kitchen
White units, dark worktops, herringbone flooring. Deliberately neutral, because a rental kitchen needs to appeal to whoever views it next rather than express a point of view.
Outside
New flagged patio, fencing, and bin storage.
Outside space lets a property more than most landlords expect, and a garden that’s obviously been dealt with signals that the rest of the house has been too.
More recent work
All projects
13-bed HMO conversion — The Freebird, ST5
A former pub being converted into thirteen letting rooms — steels, propping and structural alterations
- Status
- On site now
5-bed HMO conversion — Oxford Road, ST4
A bay-fronted terrace taken to first fix and rebuilt as five en-suite rooms
HMO conversion — Etruria Road
A dated family house turned into letting rooms with a communal kitchen
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