Refurbishment Process


When you buy a property from us you are benifiting from our experience, knowledge, contacts and time.  We select properties in County Durham in areas of high rental demand which may have been left to get run down and our builders refurbish them to a good standard for the local tenants, ensuring that all properties are to the minimum of the Durham Decent Home Standardand also to the current selective licensing conditions before you complete your purchase.  The work we do improves the desirability of the properties and the neighbourhoods, and helps home approximately 10 families in better homes every month.


The amount of work will vary depending on the original state of the property but include the following (if necessary);

  • New Boiler
  • Double Glazing
  • Electrical upgrade and Report
  • Damp proof course
  • Hard Wired Smoke Alarm
  • Secured Carbon Monoxide alarm with minimum 5yr battery life (Since 1st Oct 2022)
  • External Extraction in Bathroom
  • Plastic Cladding in bathrooms / toilets
  • Carpet, Lino, underlay
  • Kitchen / bathroom
  • General decorating
  • Check of the roof, guttering and facias
  • Painting of external headers and sills
  • Tidying of external yard / garden space

We are happy to confirm that as part of the refurbishment will also provide you all the documents and information that you will need regarding your property so that you can apply for the selective licence, this includes ensuring that all relevant certificates are in date.

We also provide a warranty to cover any snagging issues on these refurbishment items free of charge within your first 6 months of ownership (This does not apply to properties that we are selling on behalf of current landlords which are already tenanted).

Please note that with our fully refurbished properties, we put the property onto the market before completion of the property refurbishment so that legal completion can take place as soon as the property is refurbished and we have a tenant lined up to go in. 


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Please see how we are transforming properties in the North East of England
 

Before and After walk through videos

BEFORE

AFTER

Surtees Street, b4

Surtees Street, complete

George Street B4

George Street complete

Elm Street b4Elm Street complete
Sabin b4Watch Sabin complete

Roseberry Terrace b4

Roseberry walkthrough - complete

Watch Hillside b4 refurb on YouTubeWatch  3 Hillside Complete on YouTube 
Watch Watch Raby Terrace Before on YouTubeWatch Raby Terrace complete on Youtube
Watch "Bowness b4 refurb" on YoutubeWatch "Bowness complete" on Youtube

Watch "New Cross Row b4 (2 Bed)" on YouTube

Watch "New Cross Row complete (3 Bed)" on YouTube

Watch "Magdalene place b4" on YouTube

Watch "Magdalene complete" on YouTube

Watch "Mainsforth Front Row B4" before refurbWatch "Mainsforth complete" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "Kelvin b4" on YouTubeWatch "Kelvin complete" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "Firwood Terrace before" on YouTubeWatch "Firwood Terrace" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "Drake Street" before refurbWatch "Drake Street" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "Bessemer Street" before refurbWatch "Bessemer Street" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "Fourth Street" before refurbWatch "Fourth Street" after refurb on Youtube
Watch "Bertha Street" before refurbWatch "Bertha Street" after refurb on YouTube
Watch "George Street" before refurbWatch "George Street" after refurb on YouTube
Watch “Windsor Street” before refurbWatch “Windsor Street” after refurb on YouTube
Watch “Victoria Street” before refurbWatch “Victoria Street” after refurb on YouTube
Watch “Strangeways” before refurb

Watch “Strangways” after refurb on YouTube

Before and after photos:

More examples of our completed refurbishments: