Renovations & Refurbishments
Renovating or refurbishing your home to update its look or bring its amenities in line with current regulations is a great way to make a new and exciting living space without significant upheaval. Working in accordance with your budget, we can modernise, style or simply refresh your home to include a new kitchen, bathroom, tiled or wooden flooring, external windows & doors, landscaping to the front and rear patio and much more.
Renovations & Refurbishments in Surrey & Greater London
Not all building work has to be structural. It is possible to completely change the look of your home simply by renovating and refurbishing the existing property, giving it an entirely new look. Here at HICL, we have been responsible for many home transformations that offer our clients more space, increased comfort and above all better functionality of their space.
This transformation can be achieved in many ways and will vary, depending on each client’s individual needs. This is why at HICL, we spend time with our clients, getting to know what they want to achieve and how they would like to achieve it. Time is spent in consultation with our clients in the run up to a project, making sure we understand their requirements and occasionally suggesting ideas that they had not previously thought of, in order to maximise space and profitability.
Once the design is laid out, we work with our clients to ensure that all their second fix materials are ordered and supplied on time. Due to our positive working relationships with many suppliers, we can often extend our trade discounts to our clients, ensuring that they receive quality products at competitive prices.
If you want to achieve a more up to date, refreshed version of your current home without the expense of structural change, then why not consider one or more of the many services we offer.
Internal Partition Walls
Remove or erect new internal partition walls either to create extra space or create a new room like a utility or downstairs W/C. Changing the existing layout of your property with the addition or removal of internal walls can be a really affordable way to maximise your space, bring in more light, or add a room without the expense of an extension.
Our tradesmen are highly skilled in all aspects of this work and will create the space that you request. If you are unsure about how best to utilise your space, our experts will give you inspiration based on years of experience of what works well and what will make your home a more attractive proposition, should you be thinking of selling, further down the line.
Chimney Breast
Remove a chimney breast to maximise the space in a living area. This is a relatively straight forward process but does sometimes require building control compliance. At HICL, we will do all the checking for you to ensure that the removal of a chimney breast is carried out safely and in accordance with current building regulations. Ensuring that this process is carried out correctly at the point of removal, will offer peace of mind should you wish to sell your property later on.
Open a Blocked Fireplace
Open up a blocked fireplace to create a new feature. Home interiors, just like any other design are subject to constant changes in trend. Here at HICL, we have walked into a number of properties over the years to see that beautiful Victorian fireplaces have been bricked up! Whilst in today’s climate, we appreciate that a wood burning fireplace is not good for the environment, a beautiful, tiled, open hearth certainly adds charm and an original feature to your home.
The primary benefit of a fireplace is that it acts as a focal point for family and friends to gather around to share drinks and a catch up. With all the fireplace design choices available to you now, the look of your home can be greatly enhanced by your style choices. A fireplace then becomes much more than a source of heat but something that gives a nod to your unique taste, creating a beautiful focal point for your room.
Kitchen & Bathroom Renovations
Refresh your existing bathroom or kitchen with new units, suite, tiles and/or appliances. Kitchens and bathrooms are a real opportunity to put your stamp on your home. Whether you go for sleek, modern units and appliances or you prefer a more traditional look, updating the design of these rooms in your home can really offer the wow factor.
As well as refreshing the look for your home, a new kitchen or bathroom can typically add between 4-5% onto the value of your property, making this project profitable in the long run. With HICL’s years of experience in the trade, we have a number of discounts with suppliers at our disposal in the kitchen and bathroom domains, which we are only too happy to pass onto our customers.
Replace Flooring
Change your existing flooring for a more modern look with laminate, wood or tiled flooring. An easy way to update the look of your home is to change the flooring to something more on trend. This can be done simply by replacing carpet with engineered wood or laminate flooring. Another option, if you are considering underfloor heating, is wood effect tiles, which allow the heat to come through more efficiently than a standard wood flooring.
If underfloor heating is not a consideration, then why not opt for traditional hardwood flooring? Hardwood flooring can be a beautiful addition to your home, completely transforming the look and feel of it, while also adding considerable value to your property.
We are experienced in installing every type of wooden and tiled flooring in all types of property, at a variety of price points to suit all pockets.
Whatever your preference, a skilled member of the team at HICL will be able to install it for you and source the product you want at a competitive price, with our trade discounts.
Interior Painting & Wallpaper
Paint or paper your home to create a new look and even open up a space. Giving your home a new look can be achieved with a fresh coat of paint, using colour to accent a particular space in your home or using paper to introduce colour and pattern. Whether it is subtle or neutral, colourful or patterned, wallpaper has a way of providing an amazing finish to walls in any home. With wallpaper, a feature wall or a whole room can be made to stand out and create the illusion of space.
Whatever your vision, our skilled painters and decorators at HICL will be able to give your home a new lease of life. All our decorators are fully aware that to achieve a top-quality finish in your home, preparation is key. The work that takes place prior to any painting or papering is crucial. Before the actual decorating work commences, our team will remove, where necessary, all frames and pictures, light fixtures, switches and sockets and thoroughly prepare the areas to be decorated. All floor surfaces and furniture, if not removable will be protected before turning our attention to the woodwork and ensuring that the walls are as smooth as possible. These steps ensure that our decorators will be able to guarantee the best finish.
Exterior Painting
Home decoration is not just for interiors, as here at HICL, we are able to refresh the exterior of your home too with painting any window woodwork, carrying out pebble dashing or using top quality silicone render in a colour of your choice, which has the superior advantage of not requiring any re decoration in subsequent years. With so many options available, it is easy to see how home refurbishment can completely transform the look of your property.
Lighting Installations
Carry out a new electrical installation to highlight or down light areas of your home. At HICL, all our electricians are NICEIC approved and work to British Standard BS 7671 to meet installation and safety regulations. We are able to carry out a full rewiring of your property, if required, including the installation of a new fuse board to support the new electrics in your home.
We can update your current light fittings, install brand new ones, should you require additional sockets, switches or lights, we can install smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, ring doorbells and internet/telephone cabling. Whatever your electrical needs, our electricians will complete the task with a minimum of fuss or disruption to your day to day living. All installations will be registered online and certified for your future reference.
