Tired rooms, brought back to life.
Nobody else's job is the whole room. So we make it ours, from the plastering to the last coat and the clean afterwards.
Prana is an old word for breath, which is what a cared-for building has and a neglected one quietly loses. Repairs, decorating, joinery, gardens and quiet smart home work for homeowners, landlords and letting agents across Huntingdonshire. Insured, priced in writing before we start, guaranteed after we leave.
Gutters before the leaves are down, not after.
Almost every winter emergency we get called to could have been prevented in October, usually with a ladder and twenty minutes. Half a day of the water jobs is £245, at our ordinary published rate. The deadline is the weather rather than a sales tactic.
Maintenance asks what is broken. Care asks what would make life here better.
The two questions sound similar and they lead to very different work. A property is what you buy and sell. A home is the setting for a life, and it deserves the second question.
So we do not sell hours. We will tell you when something can wait, or is not worth doing at all. And we do not leave a room half finished because the next bit belongs to a different trade. That is the whole of it, and everything else here is detail.
All of it is set out at length in the Book of Care, our manifesto. It is free, there is nothing to sell in it, and you can read it before you ever speak to us.
A rough sense of scale, because nobody should have to ask. Most single jobs land between £120 and £400. A whole room, taken from tired to finished, is usually £1,080 to £1,760. We do not visit for less than £110, and every job is confirmed in writing before we start. See what we typically charge.
The gap in the middle of the market
Homeowners are offered two poor choices: take a chance on whoever answers first on Facebook, or persuade a specialist firm to care about a small job. The trades are organised for the trades, and nobody at all wants the list of eleven small things that make a house tiring to live in. We built Prana for exactly that list.
The jobbing handyman
Quick and cheap, and some are excellent. The trouble is telling which, before your home is the experiment.
- Often uninsured and unvetted
- Cash price agreed on the doorstep
- No written scope, no guarantee
- Hard to reach when something goes wrong
Prana Property Care
One trusted, insured relationship for the whole list, from the sticking door to the season's maintenance.
- Insured, and we come back if our work fails
- Fixed price in writing before we start
- One contact for the whole list
- We know our limits, and say so
- A trusted network behind us: electrician, Gas Safe engineer, flooring and more
Registered specialist trades
Essential for what they do. Gas, boilers, unvented cylinders and notifiable electrical work belong with registered professionals, always. We do the electrical work that is not notifiable, which since 2013 in England covers sockets, spurs, lights and switches on existing circuits, and we do the plumbing that is not gas.
- The right answer for regulated work
- Rarely interested in the small jobs
- Call-out fees make little jobs dear
- A different firm for every trade
When a job crosses into specialist territory, we tell you plainly and call on our network of trusted tradespeople: electrician, Gas Safe engineer, carpet fitter, flooring specialist, tree surgeon and others we would happily let loose on our own homes. Knowing our limits is not a weakness. It is the whole point.
The Room Refresh
The plasterer does not decorate afterwards. The chap fitting your new door would never straighten the crooked socket beside it, or ease the window that has stuck for years. Each trade does its trade and leaves; the room is never anyone's job.
So we made it ours. One room, everything it needs, one written price, taken from tired to finished in a single run of work. See how a Room Refresh works.
We are organised by the space, not the trade, and priced by the outcome, not the visit. Once you have experienced it, the old way feels absurd.
One thing, at whatever size you need it
A Room Refresh is the usual size, but the same idea scales down to a single afternoon and up to a whole property. People often ring worrying they are too small a job to bother us with. Nobody is. Start wherever you actually are and move up a rung later, or never.
One job, or eleven
The door that sticks, the tap that drips, the seal gone black, the curtain pole still in its box. No call-out fee, and looking at it costs nothing. A working visit starts at around £110, so these are worth saving up into one trip: a half day working through your list is £245. Send the whole thing, however long, and we will tell you what fits into a visit and what needs its own day. The small jobs →
One room
Our signature service. A room taken from tired to finished with every trade it needs, one written price and one crew, with the making good and the cleaning included rather than left behind for you. How a Refresh works →
One house, or one portfolio
A written walk-round of the whole place, a rolling care plan so somebody is keeping an eye on it through the year, or a complete reset between tenants. The same arrangement works whether you live in it, let it, or manage a portfolio of them. The Home Health Check →
Six familiar moments account for most of what we are asked to do: the room that has been waiting, somebody arriving, staying put comfortably, moving on, the gap between tenants and the garden gone over. Underneath all six it is the same work: preparation, the trades in the right order, and the finishing nobody else wants to do. The whole picture, and what it involves →
What it was actually like
Our first customers were neighbours and friends of friends, from before the business had a name. Six of them wrote something down. Everyone since has been asked to review us on Google, where we cannot edit a word of it.
Where to look next. The other five are on the reviews page, published word for word. Newer work goes to our Google profile instead, where we cannot edit a review, remove one, or choose which ones show.
We price the job, not the hour
Hourly billing is a terrible deal for the customer. It rewards slowness, punishes tidiness, and leaves you watching the clock instead of the work. So we simply do not do it.
Every job is quoted in writing before we start, and the price does not move unless the scope does. If we misjudge how long something takes, that is our cost, not yours. No call-out fees, no surprises on the invoice.
And if we get it wrong, we come back. If anything fails as a result of our workmanship within twelve months of finishing, ring us and we put it right at no cost to you.
Worth saying plainly, because most people have been sold the other kind: that is our own promise rather than an insurance-backed warranty from a third party. It is worth our word and our still being here, which we think is the point. It does not cover fair wear and tear, accidental damage, or a product failing under its own manufacturer's warranty, and where a manufacturer's warranty applies we help you chase it rather than leaving you to it. The full wording is in our terms, clause seven.
If something requires another day to achieve the proper result, we say so before we start. The inconvenience of honesty is always cheaper than the alternative.
Everything above assumes something is wrong
A care plan assumes nothing is yet, and sets out to keep it that way. Two, four or twelve visits a year, the same person each time, catching things while they are still small. From £45 a month.
Remaking a gutter joint is typically around £95. Tracing the penetrating damp it causes, treating the mould and making the wall good is more like £500 to £600, before anybody decorates. Both sit in our guide prices. That gap, repeated across a house, is the entire argument for doing this the boring way.
Neglect is rarely a decision. It is an accumulation.The Book of Care · Chapter One Read the Book of Care →
Rooted in Godmanchester
Godmanchester, on the Great Ouse. Everywhere below is roughly twenty minutes away, which is why coming back to sort a snag is not a performance.
- Godmanchester
- Huntingdon
- St Ives
- Brampton
- Buckden
- St Neots
- Papworth
- Cambridge & villages
A little outside our patch? Ask anyway. If we cannot help, we will say so and point you towards someone who can.
Why local matters
The finest homes are rarely those that have undergone dramatic renovation. They are the homes where someone cared enough to notice. Being nearby means we can notice with you: a quick visit, a second opinion, a small job done before it becomes a large one.
Ready to breathe new life into your home?
Tell us about your home and the list that never quite gets shorter. No obligation, no hard sell, and straight answers from the first conversation.
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