L’Eixample · Barcelona

Comprehensive renovations in l’Eixample

We strip the whole flat back and build it up again: services, layout, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring and finishes, with a detailed itemised quote. We work in the period buildings of the Eixample, and that means working only within the hours the residents’ association allows, lifts a bath will not fit into, and walls you have to open before you know what is inside them.

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Site visit and measurementsbefore we quote
Detailed quoteitemised, with no obligation
Site manageron site and following up
Extras approved beforethey are carried out, never after

What we do when we renovate a whole flat

A comprehensive renovation is not several separate jobs added together: it is a single project in which each trade depends on the one before. That is why it is contracted as a whole, and why coordination matters as much as execution. When every trade turns up on its own account, nobody answers for the joint between one and the next — and the joint is exactly where the problems appear.

If you only need part of it, we have a dedicated page for bathroom renovations and for kitchen renovations. The full service across the city is set out in comprehensive renovations in Barcelona.

Demolition and waste removal. Entrance hall and lift protected, a defined route out, rubble kept under control and taken away. It is the first thing the neighbours see and the first thing they complain about.
New installations. Electrics with a consumer unit and separate circuits, multilayer plumbing with accessible isolating valves, drainage laid to fall and ventilation properly sorted. This is not where you cut corners.
Masonry and layout. Partition walls, dry linings, floor build-ups and everything that changes position, including the routes that have to be opened up for the new services.
Kitchen and bathrooms. Waterproofing, tiling, sanitaryware, units and taps.
Finishes. Flooring, paintwork, joinery, lighting and finishing details: the only part you actually see, and what decides whether the renovation looks expensive or cheap.
Coordination. The site manager directs the trades and controls the work on site; the office handles purchasing, invoicing and paperwork. Two roles, and you know which one to talk to about what.

What you will find in an Eixample building

The Eixample was built with a catalogue of solutions nobody uses today, and that shapes the project before the first blow of the sledgehammer. We are not repeating hearsay: we see it every time we open one up.

Original mouldings, glazed door and balcony door of an Eixample flat during the renovation

What is worth keeping

Plaster cornices and mouldings, double-leaf internal doors with cut glass, balcony doors to the street with their balustrade and, where it is sound, the original floor.

It is not nostalgia. It is what sets an Eixample flat apart from any new-build one, and what cannot be put back if it is lost to haste. Keeping it means taking it down carefully, protecting it throughout the works — not only on the day the walls come off — and rethinking the lighting so a new downlight does not cut a moulding in half.

Wall of an Eixample flat opened up to the brick, with remains of plaster and an old service run

What turns up once you open it

Under the plaster there is brick and stone, and with them the services of the house that came before: surface wiring, exposed pipework and chases cut and recut two or three times over. In the ceilings you find the joists and the run of the soil stacks.

None of this shows on a viewing with the furniture still in place. That is why the site visit locates risers, soil stacks, service shafts and vents before we quote, and why, if anything communal has to be touched, it is put to the residents in advance and not halfway through the works.

Ten weeks in a flat on Gran Via

This is one of our projects, in a building on Gran Via. We photographed it on four visits between 7 May and 16 July 2026: ten weeks. These are the photographs we took on site, unstaged, and the dates are the ones on the photographs themselves. In the last one, 16 July, the finishes were already going in.

7 May
The home as we found it
The flat still had its furniture and its pictures on the walls, and the air conditioning unit mounted above the lintel. The bathroom kept its sliding screen and its tiling with a border; the sanitaryware was already out, resting on the floor. In the hallway, the original hexagonal terracotta floor. That is how a home of this kind is handed over: with everything still in place and no way of knowing yet what lies behind it.
21 May
Opening up
Two weeks later the old kitchen was still standing, with the suspended ceiling opened up above it. Everywhere else, the walls were stripped back to brick and stone, with the layers of paint from earlier renovations on show. This is the visit that decides the rest of the project: until now nobody knows where each service runs.
18 June
What you will never see
Metal stud framing up, new multilayer pipework and the concealed cisterns in their frames, with the partition still open to the brick. The ceilings open too, to run services through. This is the stage that stays inside the wall: the one nobody shows you, and the one that separates two quotes that looked identical.
16 July
Closing up
The bathroom tiled in large format, with the levelling wedges still in place and the niches cut into the wall. In the living room, skimmed walls and a painter working next to the moulding and the glazed arched door, both left where they were. What is new goes in without erasing what the home already had.

Painter at work in the Gran Via living room next to the glazed arched door and the mouldings that were kept

How we run a project

During the works you deal with two people, and you always know which one to ask about what: the site manager, who runs the works and the follow-up in your home, and administration, who handles purchasing, invoicing and paperwork.

And one rule that genuinely keeps the cost under control: if extra work comes up, we assess it, quote for it and send it over. It is only carried out once you approve it. Never the other way round.

Two Obrescat workers, in company T-shirts, skimming a wall from a scaffold tower

Visit and measurements. We measure up, check the services, courtyards, soil stacks and access, and tell you what we find.
An itemised quote. Separate sections, with no catch-all “miscellaneous” line.
Permits and the residents’ association. We check what is needed for the scope of the works and give the concierge and the neighbours notice when it makes sense.
Protection and waste removal route. Entrance hall and lift protected, rubble kept under control, everything cleaned up at the end of the day.
Phased execution. Demolition, services, waterproofing, tiling, fitting and finishing, in that order.
Handover. Function tests, a room-by-room check and whatever documentation applies.

What it costs and how long it takes

As a guide, a standard comprehensive renovation runs from €750 to €1,050/m², which is the range we publish on comprehensive renovations in Barcelona alongside the other bands. It is a guide only: the real figure comes out of the site visit.

In an Eixample building what moves that number is almost never the finishes: it is the services, if they have to be redone in full, and the logistics, if access and the residents make getting the waste out difficult. That is why the quote is broken down section by section from the outset.

It is there for the most awkward comparison of all: two quotes with the same total can contain very different services. With the sections separated out you can see where the difference is before you sign, and not once the wall is already open.

On timing. A comprehensive renovation usually takes between 6 and 12 weeks depending on floor area, layout changes, the condition of the services, scope and level of finish. It is a guide, not a scheduling commitment: the one that counts is set by milestones after the visit. On the Gran Via project above, ten weeks passed between the first photograph and the last.

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Two more renovations in the neighbourhood

Both are told in full, with before and after photographs, on our blog.

Comprehensive renovationThe practical renovation of a 78 m² flat in l’EixampleA corridor-style flat that had to gain floor space without inventing any: what was opened up, what was kept and how the layout ended up.See the project Bathroom renovationA small cloakroom in l’Eixample: floral wallpaper and hydraulic floor tilesA metre and a half of internal cloakroom, with ventilation to the courtyard as the constraint. Before and after, and the decisions on materials.See the project

More finished work, by type of renovation, on Obrescat projects.

What our clients say

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Oscar B.October 2025

Después de comparar varias empresas de reformas en Barcelona, nos decidimos por Obrescat y fue la mejor decisión. Reformaron nuestro piso de 90 m² en el Eixample y todo salió genial: cumplieron los plazos, no hubo sorpresas con el presupuesto y la comunicación fue constante. Nos ayudaron a elegir materiales, optimizar espacios y hasta nos dieron ideas de diseño que no habíamos pensado. Se nota que tienen experiencia y que les gusta su trabajo. La relación calidad-precio es muy buena, sobre todo para el nivel de acabado que ofrecen.

Riccardo Aiese CiglianoAugust 2026

Contamos con Obrescat para la reforma y acondicionamiento de nuestra terraza (instalación de estructura metálica, arreglos de fachada, pintura y pequeños acabados) y el resultado ha sido justo lo que buscábamos.

Desde la fase de estudio del proyecto la comunicación fue excelente: contestaron rápido y con total disponibilidad para resolver todas nuestras dudas.

Durante la ejecución, el equipo fue muy puntual, atento y sobre todo flexible, adaptándose sin problema a los cambios de días y horarios que les pedimos.

Estamos muy contentos con la calidad final del trabajo. Los recomiendo sin duda.

Juan Pablo CamposMay 2026

Lo mejor de trabajar con Obrescat ha sido sentir que había seguimiento real durante todo el proyecto. Nerea hizo un gran trabajo en la fase inicial, tanto a nivel comercial como a la hora de preparar el presupuesto, siempre con transparencia. Después, Manuel coordinó la obra con profesionalidad y supo resolver bien los pequeños ajustes que fueron apareciendo. Como empresa de reformas en barcelona, nos han parecido muy recomendables por su implicación.

Jose Carlos Morillas AvilaAugust 2025

Después de comparar varias opciones, elegí esta empresa de reformas porque me transmitió confianza y profesionalidad. El resultado ha superado mis expectativas, la cocina ha quedado increíble. Muy recomendados en reformas Barcelona

Marc CordobaJune 2026

Contratamos a Obrescat para la reforma integral de nuestro local comercial en Barcelona y la experiencia ha sido excelente. Necesitábamos adaptar completamente el espacio para abrir nuestro negocio y nos ayudaron tanto con la distribución como con los acabados y la iluminación.Muy recomendable esta empresa de reformas para proyectos de reformas Barcelona y reforma de locales.

Motonkey YoutubeDecember 2025

Después de una mala experiencia previa con otra empresa, llegar a Obrescat fue un alivio. Buscábamos una empresa de reformas en Barcelona seria y profesional, y con ellos sentimos confianza desde el primer día. Nos ayudaron a definir el proyecto, nos orientaron con materiales y acabados y siempre fueron claros con los tiempos y el presupuesto.

Durante la obra estuvieron muy organizados, el piso se mantuvo bastante limpio dentro de lo posible y cualquier duda se resolvía rápido. No tuvimos sorpresas desagradables ni sobrecostes inesperados, algo que hoy en día se agradece mucho en el sector de las reformas Barcelona.

El resultado ha sido exactamente lo que queríamos. Un equipo muy recomendable.

Ismael AyozeMarch 2026

Obrescat nos hizo una reforma de baño y reforma de cocina en Barcelona y el resultado ha sido excelente. Aprovecharon mejor el espacio, nos aconsejaron bien con los materiales y dejaron todo muy bien terminado. Además, al ver cómo trabajan, nos quedó claro que son una empresa de reformas muy seria y con experiencia. Se nota que tienen oficio y cuidan mucho este tipo de obras

Javier Fernandez de la CruzJune 2026

Gran experiencia con Obrescat en la reforma completa de nuestro baño. Queríamos algo moderno y elegante pero también práctico, y supieron encontrar el equilibrio perfecto.Muy recomendable esta empresa de reformas en Barcelona.

jaime pizarro ruedaNovember 2025

Reformamos todo el piso con Obrescat: baño, cocina y pintura general. Desde el primer momento se nota que son una empresa de reformas en Barcelona muy seria. Cumplieron plazos, ajustaron el presupuesto y el resultado fue excelente.

Ricardo Fernandez OvejeroJanuary 2023

Trabajo muy profesional con mi cocina en un par de semanas realizada. Destacaría sobretodo la organización y profesionalidad de Nerea y todo el personal en general

Before you hire

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What permits does a comprehensive renovation need?

It depends on the scope of the works and on what they affect: changing finishes is not the same as touching communal services, the layout or protected features. Which permit or which notification is needed is settled before work starts, not halfway through, and we go through it with you at the site visit.

How do you manage things with the other residents?

With a noise schedule, daily protection of the lobby and lift, an agreed route out, rubble kept under control and a clean-up at the end of every day. If communal stacks or risers have to be touched, it is put to the residents in advance. Most disputes over a job in a shared building are not about the noise: they are about not having been told.

How long does it take?

Between 6 and 12 weeks as a guide, depending on floor area, layout changes, the condition of the services, scope and level of finish. It is not a scheduling commitment: the real programme is set by milestones after the site visit. On the Gran Via project we show above, ten weeks passed between the first photograph and the last.

Who do I talk to while the work is going on?

Two people, and you know which one for what. The site manager runs the execution and the day-to-day in your home: they coordinate the trades and tell you how it is going. The office handles purchasing, invoicing and paperwork. You will not have to chase each trade separately.

Can I live in the flat while the work is done?

It is usually not workable in a full comprehensive renovation: the home is left without water, electricity and a bathroom for much of the job. In partial works it can often be done, sectioning the flat off and giving notice of any shut-offs. We assess it at the visit, because it depends on the home.

What happens if work comes up that was not planned for?

We assess it, quote for it and send it over. It is only carried out once you approve it. It is the only way the quote you sign still means something halfway through the job, and it matters especially in older buildings, where opening things up reveals what nobody could see before.

Tell us about your flat

Tell us which flat it is and what you want to do. We will come and see it, take measurements and send you a quote itemised section by section, with no obligation.

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