Every trade under one contract across Stratford and E15. Structural work, extensions, kitchens and bathrooms, building control handled for you.
Walk out of Stratford station in any direction and most of what you can see was built after 2005. The apartment buildings around Westfield, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the ArcelorMittal Orbit are framed structures with fixed risers, mechanical ventilation and building-wide systems, and a renovation inside one is a controlled fit-out rather than a building job. Older terraced streets sit a little further out and behave completely differently. GS Renovation works on both, and on an E15 apartment the planning starts with access, consents and services long before anyone picks a worktop.
Newer blocks are engineered as complete systems, and that is the part owners underestimate. Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery serves the flat through ducts sized at design stage, so a new cooker hood cannot simply be connected into it or blanked off without upsetting the balance of the whole unit. Where the building runs communal heating, the heat interface unit and its pipework belong to a system serving other homes, and it is not something to reposition casually. Sprinkler heads and detectors are tied into a building-wide arrangement and any change to them needs formal approval, not a site decision.
Wet rooms carry the highest consequence. Your bathroom probably sits above another household's ceiling, so tanking to walls and floor, correct falls and a sound substrate are the whole job, and tiling is just what you see afterwards. Drainage falls back to the stack are fixed, which sets the realistic zone for any layout change. We survey the existing runs, the riser positions and the ventilation arrangement first, then design within them, so the scheme you approve is one the building will actually allow to be built, rather than one that has to be redrawn after the managing agent has read it.
Logistics dominate the programme in a tall block. The service lift has to be booked, it has load and length limits, and full sheets of plasterboard or a three metre worktop may simply not fit in it, which changes what gets ordered and how it is jointed. Deliveries land at a loading bay with a short window, everything is moved on trolleys under protection, and waste comes back down the same route bagged rather than loose. None of this is difficult, but it is slower than a house, and a programme that ignores it will be wrong from the first week.
Access control adds its own rhythm. Concierge sign-in, fobs, agreed working hours and protected corridors all need arranging before the start rather than negotiating on the morning. We provide the insurance certificates and method information the management company requires up front, and one named project manager holds every thread, including the relationship with the building team. GS Renovation is fully insured, registered in England under company number 14611254, and gives a five year guarantee on installations we carry out. That single point of contact matters most when a lift booking moves at short notice and somebody has to replan the week without it landing on you.
Every Service, One Team
One accountable team for every trade in Stratford. Choose the work you need:
RSJ and Steel Beam Installation in Stratford: steel beam installation, RSJ and structural alterations.
Load-Bearing Wall Removal in Stratford: safe load-bearing wall removal with steel beam support.
Structural Alterations in Stratford: structural alterations, new openings and steel support.
Chimney Breast Removal in Stratford: chimney breast removal with gallows bracket or beam support.
Open-Plan Conversions in Stratford: open-plan kitchen, diner and living conversions.
House Extensions in Stratford: single and double storey extensions.
Loft Conversion in Stratford: dormer, hip to gable and mansard loft conversions.
Home Renovation in Stratford: full refurbishments and whole-house renovations.
Kitchen Renovation in Stratford: bespoke kitchen design and installation.
Bathroom Renovation in Stratford: luxury bathroom and wet-room refurbishment.
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FAQ
Non-structural partitions can usually go, and a good deal of the layout is built from them, but core walls, risers and anything enclosing services or forming fire compartmentation cannot be touched without formal consent and a designer's input. Kitchens and bathrooms move only as far as the drainage will let them. We establish what is structure and what is partition before drawing a proposal, not after.
Very possibly, and this is one of the most common mistakes in modern blocks. Where the flat is served by a mechanical ventilation system, its extract points are part of a balanced design, so connecting a powered hood into that ductwork or capping an extract can affect performance across the whole flat. A recirculating hood is often the correct answer, and any change to the system needs the building's agreement.
By booked service lift, in loads that respect its size and weight limits, with protection laid through the lobby, lift car and corridor first. Long items are specified in jointed sections where the lift will not take them, and everything is scheduled so material is not left standing in communal areas. Waste is bagged at the point of production and taken down the same day.
Yes, and the work is entirely different in character. Those houses are solid brick with suspended timber floors and original drainage, so renovation there involves damp, structural openings, rewiring and often undoing earlier alterations. Our founder has over 30 years of hands-on experience across exactly that kind of housing, and we hold a rating of 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder.
We loved working with George and Ibrahim and would highly recommend them. They have done splendid job on our new kitchen refurb which including new flooring, moving the services, installing RSJ and preparing space for new back doors…
George was very friendly and helpful from start to finish. He worked really hard to ensure our kitchen was installed to a high standard and was accommodating to the changes we wanted along the way. We're really happy with the end result…
George was brilliant. Lovely bloke, very reasonably priced and a perfectionist to boot. He completed our small kitchen renovation with care and great attention to detail. I've already recommended him to others.
Free, no-obligation quote for any renovation work in Stratford. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder, fully insured, and building control handled for you.