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What things actually cost.
Almost nobody in this trade publishes numbers, and we have never understood why. You would not buy anything else in your life without knowing roughly what it costs. So here is the whole list, taken straight from the rate card we quote from, with nothing held back and nothing dressed up.
These are indicative, and that word is doing real work
Every figure below is a starting point, not a quote. They are what these jobs typically come to on an ordinary house in ordinary condition, and they are genuinely the numbers we work from. What they are not is a promise about your house, which we have not seen yet.
Your actual price is fixed in writing after a proper look, and once it is fixed it does not move unless the job itself changes.
What moves them up
Older houses, where nothing is square and everything takes longer. Awkward access, scaffolding, or a room that has to be worked around rather than emptied. Condition worse than it looked from the doorway.
What moves them down
Several jobs in one visit, which is nearly always cheaper than several visits. Booking a room rather than a trade. A regular arrangement, where problems stay small.
What is already included
Filler, sealant, fixings, sandpaper, masking and basic white paint are in the price and never itemised. Materials bought specifically for your job are listed at cost plus a small handling charge.
Three more honest notes. There is a minimum charge of £110 for a visit, because turning up costs us something whatever the job. And prices drift: these were last reviewed in August 2026, and if you are reading this a long time afterwards, treat them as a guide to the shape of things rather than the figure. And there is no VAT to add to any of it: we are a self-employed business rather than a limited company, and we are not registered for VAT, so the figure you are quoted is the figure you pay. If that changes as we grow we will say so here.
The small jobs
The ones that never quite reach the top of the list. Most are an hour or two, and several usually get done in the same visit.
Decorating
Prepared properly first, which is most of the work and all of the difference. Paint is charged on top at what it costs us.
Joinery
Repair before replacement wherever it is the honest answer.
Storage and the loft
Somewhere for everything, built to the space rather than bought to fit it.
The Room Refresh
One room, every trade it needs, one price. The bundle discount is already in these figures.
Full kitchen and bathroom refits are necessarily bespoke. We do them, and the two lines above are genuine starting points, but nobody can honestly quote a refit from a website. On an ordinary three-bedroom house, with a bathroom of roughly 2.5 by 2 metres or a kitchen of eight to twelve units, our part usually lands between £3,800 and £6,000 for a bathroom and £4,400 and £7,000 for a kitchen. That covers strip-out and disposal, walls and floors prepared and levelled, boarding and tiling, fitting the units or the suite, second fix, sealing, making good and decorating, and coordinating everyone else.
Two things push a bathroom past the top of that, nearer £6,800: walls that have to be rebuilt before anything can be tiled, and a room taking both a bath and a separate shower enclosure. We would far rather say so here than at the survey.
And if you would sooner see where a figure like that comes from than take it on trust, the refit section further down lists the parts: the strip-out, the boarding, the tanking, tiling by the square metre, and each item fitted. Add up the ones that apply to your room and you will land within a few hundred pounds of what we would quote you.
It does not cover the things you choose, which you buy and which vary more than our labour ever will: units, worktops, appliances, the suite, tiles and flooring. Nor the regulated trades. A Gas Safe engineer and a registered electrician contract with you directly and bill you directly, so there is no margin of ours hidden in their invoice. Move a soil pipe, take out a wall, or find something unpleasant under the old floor and the figure moves, which is exactly why we look first and price afterwards.
The Nursery and child safety
Preparing a room in good time, and making the rest of the house sensible before they start moving.
Staying put comfortably
Fitted to look like fittings rather than equipment. Best done a year before anybody needs them.
Outside
Rhythm beats blitz. Regular visits keep everything a small job, which is cheaper for you and better for the garden.
A warmer, quieter home
Where the money goes furthest, and where we are quickest to tell you something is not worth doing.
Woodburning stoves
Our part is the building work and the finishing. Registered specialists handle the regulated steps and bill you directly.
The quiet smart home
Foundations first. Cleverness afterwards, and only where it earns its keep.
Home security and cameras
Cabled, hidden, and recorded on your own hardware with nothing to subscribe to.
Moving home
Both ends of the same upheaval.
Plastering and surfaces
Flat, true walls are the difference between a decent room and a good one. Nobody notices plastering done well, which is rather the point.
Floors
Prepared properly underneath, because a level floor is most of what makes a laid floor look right.
A full refit, priced by the part
We do them, and this is what they are actually built from. Add up the parts that apply to your room rather than trusting a single number from a website.
Surveys
A written read on the whole house, including the things we would leave alone.
For landlords and agents
A full refresh between tenancies, which the industry calls a void. Portfolio rates apply once a volume is agreed, so these are the standalone figures.
Because the alternative is worse for you
A price hidden until the doorstep is a price you cannot compare, cannot plan around, and cannot walk away from easily. It is how a certain kind of trade works, and it is why so many people dread getting anyone in at all.
We would rather you knew before you rang. If these numbers are more than you wanted to spend, that is genuinely useful information and neither of us has wasted an afternoon. And if they are less than you feared, which happens more often, then something you have been putting off for two years might turn out to be a Tuesday morning.
None of this has to be booked as a package. Services can be combined, taken apart, or reduced to the single job you actually want doing. If all you need is a curtain pole hung, a patch of damaged wall made good or a sticking door eased, ring and ask for exactly that.
Now let us price your actual house.
Tell us what needs doing, in ordinary words, and send a photo or two if it helps. You get a fixed written price back, with no obligation and no follow-up chasing.