Flat Refurbishment Hammersmith

Flat refurbishment is the everyday version of this work in Hammersmith, where 77% of homes are flats. They range from floors of converted Victorian houses to post-war blocks and the newer buildings among the 15% of homes built in 2000 or later. Each sits in a building shared with neighbours, so the lease, the managing agent and the block's rules shape the job as much as the flat does. We renew the electrics, heating, kitchen, bathroom, floors and finishes inside those limits.

For Hammersmith, published UK averages put a full flat refurbishment at £33,000 to £48,000 and a basic one, with budget kitchen and bathroom fittings, at £15,000 to £18,000, and London flats usually cost more (Checkatrade and MyJobQuote, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Hammersmith: we refurbish the flat within the terms of your lease and licence to alter, protect the common parts throughout, and a registered electrician certifies the new consumer unit and circuits.

Which kind of Hammersmith flat you own changes the refurbishment

The building around a Hammersmith flat sets the method more than the flat's size. With 56% of homes here built before 1919, some flats are floors of converted period houses, with timber joists shared with the flat below and lath ceilings under your floorboards. A further 34% date from after 1945, which takes in purpose-built blocks with concrete floors. Within that, 15% were built in 2000 or later, where a block may have service risers, a sprinkler or alarm system and a management company.

In a converted house, lifting floorboards exposes the ceiling of the flat below, so leaks and dropped debris are real risks and floor work is done in short, protected sections. In a concrete block, new pipe and cable routes are limited to screeds, walls and boxing, and drilling into the slab often needs the freeholder's agreement. In a newer building the warranty and the managing agent's contractor rules may restrict who can touch the fire alarm, the sprinkler heads or the ventilation units.

Housing in Hammersmith

Hammersmith has about 15,040 homes on the Council Tax list: 56% pre-1919, 9% interwar and 34% post-war, with flats making up 77% and houses 23%.

Leases, licences to alter and block hours in Hammersmith

Read the lease before a Hammersmith flat refurbishment is priced. Leases commonly need the freeholder's written licence to alter before structural, plumbing or flooring changes, and the managing agent may ask for drawings, method statements and a deposit against damage to the common parts. Some leases require carpet in living rooms and bedrooms, or an acoustic underlay rated to a stated level under any hard floor. The licence can take weeks, so we give you the scope and programme the agent asks for early.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council tries to keep noisy building work to 8am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays, and some blocks set shorter hours inside the building. Where the block's rules are tighter, they win. Lift bookings, protection to landings and stair carpets, water shut offs and access to the riser all go through the agent. Parking bay suspensions for up to six bays for up to three days need 8 days notice, which we book for the delivery and clearance days.

Letting a refurbished Hammersmith flat: EPC and licensing

A landlord refurbishing a Hammersmith flat between tenancies works to an energy floor. Since 1 April 2018 private landlords may not let homes on new tenancies with an EPC rating of F or G, and since 1 April 2020 that has covered existing lets too, unless a valid exemption applies. Hammersmith and Fulham Council enforces the standard with a compliance notice and then a financial penalty. Electric heating upgrades, lighting, heating controls and draught work inside the flat are the usual measures within a leaseholder's control.

Licensing may apply as well. Hammersmith and Fulham runs selective licensing alongside its two HMO schemes, so a flat let to one household can still need a licence if its street is designated. In a converted house the building itself can be licensable, which is the freeholder's matter. Where a scheme covers your flat, its conditions set standards for fire detection, heating and repair that the refurbishment should meet. The landlord holds and applies for the licence, and we build to the conditions it carries.

Fire safety, sound and services inside a Hammersmith flat

The flat entrance door, the walls to the common stair and the fire stopping around risers are part of the building's fire strategy, which the freeholder or responsible person controls. In a Hammersmith block, do not change or drill them without the agent's agreement, and any replacement entrance door must meet the fire rating the building needs. Inside the flat we keep new service holes out of compartment walls where we can, and fire stop any that are agreed. In a higher-risk building, a tall residential block as the Building Safety Act defines it, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control body rather than the council. Work self-certified by a competent person scheme installer, such as a registered electrician, does not need the Regulator's approval.

Inside the flat, a refurbishment usually means a new consumer unit and rewire, certified by a registered electrician, and either a combination boiler replaced by a registered gas engineer or electric heating where the block has no gas. Kitchen and bathroom renewal stays within the existing footprint and waste routes, because moving a soil pipe in a shared building is a lease matter. New hard floors go down on an acoustic layer, which protects the flat below and answers the usual lease condition.

• Consumer unit replacement from the meter onwards
• Condensation control with extract fans and trickle vents
• Full and basic flat refurbishments within the existing layout

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Hammersmith Broadway, Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park North and Ravenscourt Park South. Counts rounded by the VOA.

When comparing flat refurbishment in Hammersmith with other work, it helps to read bathroom renovation in Hammersmith, flat refurbishment across Hammersmith and Fulham, London builders who work inside occupied blocks, renewing a bathroom inside a leasehold flat, flat refurbishment across London and Small Bathroom Ideas.

Why Hammersmith Homeowners Choose GS Renovation

A flat refurbishment in Hammersmith succeeds or fails on the building around it: the agent's approvals, the lift booking, the neighbours below and the hours on the notice by the door. We prepare the scope and programme the licence to alter needs, protect the common parts, and keep one contact for you and the agent. Electrical work is certified by a registered electrician and gas work is done by a registered gas engineer.

• The lease and licence to alter read before a flat is quoted
• Honest updates if a date or a detail has to move
• Void periods between tenancies planned to a fixed handover date

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254).