What is refurbishment cost?

Refurbishment cost is the total spend to bring a property back up to standard without changing its structure: labour, materials, skips, professional fees and VAT. It covers work like bathrooms, kitchens, decorating, flooring and updated services rather than extensions or moved walls. That line matters for budgeting. Structural work puts you into renovation pricing, which is a different conversation.

On the jobs we price across South East London, refurbishment cost is built room by room. A bathroom refresh starts from £4,500 and a full bathroom refit from £7,000. Decorating a room starts from £400, and repainting a whole three-bed house from £4,000. For a full property we price from a survey rather than a rate card. The ex-rental flats we take on in Lewisham and Sydenham show why: condition swings the number more than size does.

Treat any figure quoted before someone has stood in your property as a guess. Two Victorian terraces that look identical from the street can cost very differently once the floorboards come up. We survey first, free, then give a fixed written quote. The price we quote is the price you pay.