Kitchen Renovation Battersea

GS Renovation designs and builds kitchens across Battersea, from the streets near Clapham Common to the riverside by the Thames. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as a single project, planned around SW11's flats in post-war blocks and converted houses, and its smaller number of period terraces.

In Battersea, a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Battersea: we carry the strip-out, services and fit as one contract, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

How the job runs

1. Free design visit at your Battersea home and an itemised quote.
2. Strip-out and any structural work, first-fix plumbing and electrics, plastering.
3. Units fitted and levelled; stone worktops templated and cut off site.
4. Worktops, appliances, tiling and second fix. Electrics certified under Part P by a registered electrician, or notified to building control. Typically 3 to 5 weeks on site.

Open-plan kitchen-diners in Battersea homes

Most Battersea homes are flats, in post-war blocks or converted houses, where the wall to the living room may be structural. Opening it up is the most requested kitchen project. A load-bearing wall takes a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control, with the freeholder's licence to alter agreed first in a flat. On a terrace, the knock-through runs to the middle reception or into the side return.

With the opening formed, we fit the units, run the plumbing and electrics, and lay out the room to make the most of the SW11 footprint, with the sink planned around the soil stack. On a terrace, rooflights over an infilled side return bring in daylight, and an island adds seating and prep space. The kitchen and the steelwork are delivered together, by one team.

Housing in Battersea

The stock in Battersea runs to roughly 33,740 dwellings, 91% of them flats and 9% houses, built 19% before 1919, 4% between 1919 and 1939 and 76% after 1945. Where most homes are flats, a kitchen sink in a flat in Battersea has to stay within reach of the shared soil stack.

Moving a kitchen in a newer Battersea flat starts with the ventilation

47% of homes in Battersea were built in 2000 or later. In a flat of that age the kitchen extract often connects to a ducted system serving the whole flat, sometimes with heat recovery, rather than a fan on an outside wall. Moving the hob means moving that connection, rebalancing the system and keeping the new duct run inside the ceiling void, while the sink waste still has to reach the riser at a workable fall. The flat's operation and maintenance manual, held by the managing agent, shows both before any layout is drawn.

Where the extract cannot reach the existing system, the fallback is a new outlet on the outside of the building, and that is where planning comes in. Wandsworth's conservation area FAQ gives flats, and houses divided into flats, no permitted development rights, so a cored hole and grille on the facade needs an application as well as the freeholder's consent. In a Battersea flat that can take longer than the kitchen itself, so we fix the extract route at survey and place the hob, the island and the tall units around it.

Bespoke fitted kitchens for SW11 homes

Battersea's period homes come with chimney breasts, alcoves and slightly irregular walls that rarely suit off-the-shelf units. We plan bespoke and fitted kitchens around these quirks, using made-to-measure cabinetry to square up awkward corners and turn recesses into useful storage rather than wasted space. Whether you want a handleless contemporary look or a classic Shaker style, we build to suit the character of the house.

Worktops are chosen to match, in quartz, granite or composite, with integrated appliances, considered task and ambient lighting, tiling and any replumbing all handled in-house. On the lower-ground kitchens found in some Battersea terraces we plan carefully around head height, ventilation and natural light. The finish is durable and precisely fitted, built for a busy family kitchen rather than a showroom that looks good only in photographs.

How a Victorian house changes the fit

The age of a Battersea house dictates far more of the kitchen than the door style does. Floors are suspended timber over a ventilated void, so waste runs can drop and fall properly, but joists must not be notched where the engineer says they cannot be. Walls are solid brick in lime mortar, so chasing for cables and pipes needs care, and fixings for wall units want resin anchors rather than plastic plugs. Older services often surface once the units come out, and lead supply pipe or rubber sheathed cable is best replaced while the walls are open.

Ceilings are lath and plaster, and lifting one to run new services often ends in replacing it, so we agree that before cabinets are ordered. Nothing in a Victorian rear addition is truly square either, so runs are scribed and packed rather than trusted to a level, which is why the final day of fitting is slower than it looks on paper. Extraction is designed to satisfy Part F, not just to look tidy.

• Plumbing, electrics and appliance integration
• Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good
• Bespoke kitchen design and layout planning

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 6 statistical areas in Battersea. Counts rounded by the VOA.

If this is your first project in Battersea, these are worth a look: load-bearing wall removal in Battersea, kitchen renovation across Wandsworth, kitchen fitting in London, building contractors for London kitchen projects, how we handle kitchen renovation across London and Renovation Lighting Guide.

The GS Renovation Difference in Battersea

Battersea homeowners choose GS Renovation because one team handles the whole kitchen, including any steel beam or knock-through, the services and the finish. You get bespoke cabinetry built for SW11's period proportions, honest pricing and tidy working in an occupied home, backed by our founder's 30+ years on the tools.

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.