GS Renovation refurbishes whole houses and whole flats across Winchmore Hill, taking substantial Edwardian properties back to the fabric and rebuilding them properly. One team runs the structure, the rewire, the plumbing, the plaster and the finishes to a single programme, so trades follow each other in the right order instead of queueing on the pavement.
What a full refurbishment finds in an N21 period house
Three things come up in nearly every Winchmore Hill house we strip out. Rewiring solid walls means chasing brick rather than dropping cables down a cavity, so the routes have to be planned with the plasterer before the electrician starts. The suspended ground floor is usually under-ventilated, with airbricks painted over or buried by a raised path, which we clear before anything is insulated. And the lath and plaster is a genuine decision: sound lath holds mouldings and takes the character with it if it goes, while blown lath that has lost its key is a false economy to patch.
The other recurring find is the legacy of an earlier conversion. Houses divided into flats decades ago tend to have services run wherever was easiest, waste pipes clipped across elevations, meters in cupboards under the stairs and fire doors that were never fire doors. Where a property is being brought back to a single family house we untangle all of that, and where a house is staying as flats we improve the separation between them properly, with sound and fire resistance to the floor between rather than a new carpet and hope.
Sequencing, consents and conservation area windows
The programme runs structure first, then first fix electrics and plumbing, then plaster, then joinery, kitchen and bathrooms, then second fix and decoration, with an Enfield building control inspection at each stage that will later be hidden. Electrical work is notifiable under Part P and is certified as part of the job. Where the layout changes and a wall comes out, the engineer we appoint designs the beam and building control signs it off. None of this needs planning permission because it is all inside the building.
Windows are the exception, and around Winchmore Hill Green they matter. Original timber sashes are one of the features the conservation area designation exists to protect, and if the property is a flat or listed the controls are tighter still. Repairing and draught proofing existing sashes, or replacing like for like in timber with slim double glazing, is normally the route that gets approved; plastic frames on a principal elevation are normally the route that does not. We check with Enfield planning first and build to what is actually consented.
- Bespoke joinery, wardrobes and fitted storage
- External rendering, repointing and masonry repair
- Room by room programme so you can stay in the house
- Damp treatment, tanking and timber repairs
- Waste clearance, dust protection and daily site tidying
Why Winchmore Hill Homeowners Choose GS Renovation
A whole house refurbishment needs one party holding the programme, the sequence and the certificates together. We run structure, services and finishes with our own team, protect the cornices, sashes and lath worth keeping in a Winchmore Hill period house, and handle Enfield building control, the Part P certification and the engineer's involvement where walls move. Realistic dates, and an honest answer when something in the fabric changes them.
- Honest updates if a date or a detail has to move
- Wiring, pipework and boiler condition surveyed before we price
- Our own trades on site rather than a chain of subcontractors
- Original features protected, repaired or reinstated as you want
- Registered in England, Companies House no. 14611254
- A written scope and programme agreed before work starts