Seven to eleven weeks, described honestly.
Every stage, what it actually looks like living through it, and exactly when money moves. No stage is skipped in this list, including the ones that aren't fun.
- Week 0
Survey & design
Ninety minutes on site, structural options talked through in plain terms, drawings started within 48 hours.
- Week 1
Party wall & building control
Notices served to neighbours, full plans submitted. Nothing on site yet — this runs in parallel with scaffold booking.
Paperwork, not disruption - Weeks 2–3
Scaffold & structural opening-up
Scaffold goes up, steels go in, the roof structure changes shape. Loud, but entirely outside — you won't notice much indoors yet.
- Weeks 3–5
First fix
Insulation, plasterboard, first-fix electrics and plumbing. The ugliest stretch — dust everywhere, nothing visibly finished.
The hard weeks - Week 5–6
Staircase
The single most disruptive week of the whole build — a section of the floor below opens up. We'll tell you which exact days to plan around.
Plan to be out - Weeks 6–8
Second fix
Plastering, flooring, joinery, tiling. This is where it starts looking like a finished room.
- Weeks 8–9
Decoration & snagging
Paint, final electrics, a walkthrough together to catch anything before sign-off.
- Week 9–11
Building control sign-off
Final inspection and the completion certificate — the document a mortgage surveyor and a future buyer will actually ask for.
Six stages. Nothing paid before it's earned.
Four protections, all checkable.
Section 75 style cover
Payments beyond your deposit go against completed stages you can see, not milestones we set ourselves.
Insurance-backed guarantee
Ten years, in your name, issued by the insurer — covered even if we stopped trading.
Proof of insurance
£10m public liability plus contractors' all-risk, provided before scaffold goes up, not after you ask.
Written contract
Scope, price, and payment stages fixed in writing before any deposit is taken.