Les Corts · Barcelona
Comprehensive renovations in Les Corts
We renovate flats in buildings with a lot of neighbours. That means two jobs at once: the one in your home and the one the rest of the building sees. We strip the flat back, renew the services and fit kitchen, bathrooms, flooring and finishes with detailed itemised quote, and we arrive at the entrance hall with the protection already up and the working hours already agreed.
- Working hours agreedwith the residents, before we start
- Entrance hall and lift protectedevery day, not only on demolition day
- Detailed quoteitemised, with no obligation
- Extras approved beforethey are carried out, never after
The first thing is not the work: it is the building
In a building of sixty households, it is not the neighbour upstairs who stops the work: it is the house rules. And the house rules are read before the quote is signed, not on the morning the hammer arrives.
What we ask the concierge before going in
Three things, and all three change the works programme. Which hours noisy work can be done in. Which lift material can go up in and with what weight limit. And whether the car park or the vehicle entrance can be used for loading and unloading, or whether that has to be sorted out on the street.
When any of the three is a no, we know it when we quote and it shows in the figure, instead of turning up as a surprise in week two.
The communal areas are the part of the job everyone sees
The damage that produces a formal complaint is almost never the noise. It is a trolley wheel marking the lobby floor, a knock to the lift door frame or dust drifting down the stairwell.
That is why the lobby, the landing and the lift car are protected with board, corner guards and film from the first day to the last, why anything broken is replaced and why the area is swept at the end of every day. How we do it is set out in clean sites: dust extraction and protecting the furniture.
What has to be notified and what has to be asked for
Notifying and asking permission are not the same thing. Work inside your own home is notified. Anything that touches a communal element — a soil stack, a riser, a courtyard, a façade, external glazing — is put to the residents in advance and in writing.
If your project needs any of those, we spot it at the site visit and say so then, while there is still time to plan for it.
What we do when we renovate the whole flat
- Demolition and rubble. Protection up, a defined route out, bagged waste and controlled removal.
- New installations. A consumer unit split into separate circuits, plumbing with accessible isolating valves, drainage laid to fall and ventilation with its outlet properly sorted.
- Layout. Partition walls, dry linings and the routes that have to be opened up for the new services.
- Kitchen and bathrooms. Waterproofing, tiling, appliances, units and taps, with the tests done before anything is closed up.
- Finishes. Flooring, paintwork, skirting, joinery, lighting and finishing details.
- Coordination. The site manager organises the trades and oversees the works; the office handles purchasing, invoicing and paperwork.
When you do not need the whole job
In a building of this kind the structure is usually sound and the layout reasonable. Plenty of people do not need to strip the flat out: they need to take twenty years off it. It is a shorter, cheaper job, and one you can go on living through almost the whole time.
The flooring
It is the first thing people ask for, because the original floor creaks, the skirting is out of line or it is simply worn out. We explain it in full on our parquet page, with the differences between glued and floating and what has to be done to the subfloor before anything is laid.
The paintwork
It is what changes a home most for the least money when the preparation is done properly, and it has a page of its own too.
It can be done room by room, with the rest of the home still in use. What cannot be done is doing it after the services have been touched: if at some point you are going to redo the electrics or the plumbing, the right order is chases first, finishes afterwards. Getting it the wrong way round costs you painting twice.
What it costs and how long it takes
We publish five price bands per m² on comprehensive renovations in Barcelona. For a full renovation the one that applies is the standard band, from €750 to €1,050/m²; for a refresh of the finishes that leaves the services alone, the partial update band, from €450 to €650/m². These are a guide only: the real figure comes out of the site visit.
There is a cost in buildings like these worth naming, because it appears in no catalogue: moving material up and down the building. Everything that goes in and everything that comes out passes through a lift with set hours and a weight limit, and sometimes up a staircase. That is hours, and the hours are in the quote.
When the residents allow the garage to be used for storing materials, the figure comes down; when they do not, it goes up. That is why we ask first.
On timing. We publish that a comprehensive renovation of 60 to 80 m² may need between 8 and 12 weeks, and a home of 90 to 110, between 10 and 16. An update to flooring and paintwork sits well below that. It is a guide, not a scheduling commitment: the real one is set by milestones after the site visit.
One of our projects in Les Corts
It is told in full on the blog, with what was opened up in the living space and why that floor was chosen.
The rest of our completed work, sorted by type of renovation, is in Obrescat projects.
Before you hire
The six that come up most in buildings with a residents’ committee and house rules. If yours is missing, the 933 53 54 09 is answered during office hours, and the WhatsApp too.
Do I need the residents’ permission to renovate my flat?
For what happens inside your own home, no: you notify them. What does have to be put to the residents, and in advance, is any work that touches a communal element: a soil stack, a riser, a courtyard, a façade or external glazing. We spot it at the site visit, while there is still room to plan for it. Which procedure each case calls for is explained in what paperwork your project needs.
The building has set hours for building work. Does the renovation fit into them?
Yes, and it is planned around them. What we do is concentrate the noisy work — demolition, chasing, cutting — into the permitted window and keep everything else outside it: fitting, services, tiling, painting. The restriction adds a little to the programme during demolition and almost nothing after that.
Who is liable if something in the entrance hall or the lift is damaged?
We are. That is why the lobby, the landing and the lift car are protected from the first day and not only on demolition day, and why their condition is checked before we start. If something is damaged anyway, it is put right. It is the part of the job the sixty neighbours see, and the one that decides how they look at you in the lift for three months.
Can the communal garage be used to unload materials?
Only if the residents authorise it, and they do not always. It is one of the three things we ask the concierge before quoting, because it changes the figure: if loading and unloading has to be handled on the street, more carrying time is needed and sometimes a reserved space on the road.
We can hear the neighbour upstairs. Will the renovation fix it?
It can improve it a great deal, but you need to know how the noise is getting in before spending. Impact noise, which comes through the floor slab and is tackled from the floor, is not the same as airborne noise, which is tackled from the ceiling or the partition. We go into it in how to cut noise from the neighbours, and it is best decided with the home opened up.
Can I stay living there while you change the floor and paint?
On a finishes update, usually yes, working room by room with the home sectioned off. On a full comprehensive renovation, usually not: the home is left without water, electricity and a bathroom for much of the job. We assess it at the visit, with the flat and its layout in front of us.
What our clients say
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Tell us which building it is and what you want to do. We will come and see it, take measurements, talk to the concierge if needed and send you a quote itemised section by section, with no obligation.
Or call us: 933 53 54 09