Home Renovation Catford

GS Renovation refurbishes whole houses across Catford, from tired Edwardian terraces to family homes that have not been touched in decades. We manage rewiring, plumbing, plastering, structural changes and finishing as one coordinated project, so you deal with a single team from strip-out to final decoration.

In Catford, a full house refurbishment typically costs £40,000 to £150,000 or more (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Catford: we carry the structure, services and finishes as one contract.

The two rooms that cost the most have their own pages, with prices: kitchen renovation in Catford and bathroom renovation in Catford. With 66% of homes in Catford flats, the soil stack usually fixes where a bathroom can go, and the lease may need the freeholder's consent for either room.

Whole-house refurbishment across Catford

A full Catford refurbishment usually starts by stripping back to the brick and joists, then renewing the services that period terraces have long outgrown. We rewire from a new consumer unit, replumb in modern pipework, upgrade the heating, and replaster walls and ceilings that have cracked or blown over the years. Because SE6 homes were built room by room, we often reconfigure dated layouts, moving a bathroom off a bedroom or opening up the rear to suit how families live now.

Sequencing is what keeps a whole-house project calm. We run the structural work first, then first-fix services, plastering, second fix, and finally kitchens, bathrooms and decoration in the right order. One programme, one point of contact and one set of trades means the plumber, electrician and joiner are not tripping over each other, and the house comes back together cleanly rather than in disconnected phases.

Housing in Catford

The Council Tax list puts Catford at about 7,650 homes, 66% flats against 34% houses; 61% went up before 1919, 4% between the wars and 33% after 1945. Where most homes are flats, a whole-flat refurbishment in Catford works to the lease: the freeholder's licence for alterations, agreed working hours and sound insulation between floors.

Renovating a Catford period house without trapping damp

61% of Catford homes were built before 1919, so a whole-house renovation here usually means solid brick walls with no cavity. Those walls were built to take up moisture and let it dry out through lime mortar and lime plaster. Replacing that with cement render outside and gypsum plaster or plastic paint inside can trap the moisture, and it then shows as damp patches or blown plaster a winter or two after the renovation. On a Catford period house we test which finishes are original before strip-out and keep breathable materials on walls that need them.

The other third of Catford's stock, 33% built after 1945, renovates differently. Post-war flats and houses more often have concrete floors and fixed service routes, and the walls are less often the source of damp. In a post-war flat the limits are the lease and the building's shared services, not the brickwork. Knowing which kind of Catford home you have decides the order of works: in a period house the walls and floors come first, and in a post-war flat the consents and service routes come first.

Keeping period character in SE6 homes

Catford's Victorian and Edwardian houses carry original features worth saving, cornicing, ceiling roses, panelled doors, cast fireplaces and moulded skirtings. Where these survive we restore them, repairing plaster mouldings and easing sticking sashes, so the modernised house still reads as a period home rather than a stripped-out shell. It is a different approach from ripping everything out, and it protects the value these SE6 terraces hold.

At the same time we bring the fabric up to a modern standard, improving insulation where we can, tanking damp closet-wing walls and upgrading draughty areas without losing character. Catford owners want homes that feel current but stay true to their age, and balancing the two is exactly what a managed refurbishment delivers.

• Plastering, flooring, painting and decorating
• Structural alterations and load-bearing wall removal
• Cornice, skirting and period feature restoration

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Catford East & Mountsfield Park and Catford Bridge. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Two or three things usually come up alongside home renovation on a Catford job: load-bearing wall removal in Catford, home renovation across Lewisham, design and build contracting, renovations across London, our London home renovation page and Staircase Renovation Cost.

Why Catford Homeowners Choose GS Renovation

Catford homeowners choose GS Renovation for whole-house work because we run the entire job under one roof, from structural steel to the final coat of paint. You get proper sequencing, trades that coordinate, and respect for the period features that make SE6 terraces special. Our founder's 30+ years on the tools means we understand how these houses are built and how to modernise them without losing their character.

• Site left safe and secure at the end of every day
• Notifiable electrical work certified by a registered electrician under Part P
• One itemised quote covering structure, services and finishes

Reviewed jobs near Catford

1 MyBuilder review from Crofton Park, with each customer's own job title:

• Replace small section of wooden worktop, sink, tap and gas hob, Crofton Park, 17 Apr 2024 (5 out of 5)

Read all 31 on our reviews page.

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254). Structural design is by the consulting engineer appointed to your project.