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NATHFRA GROUP

Whole-house renovation in Kuching

Re-roofing, rewiring, replumbing, plastering, tiling and painting — run as a single contract so you are not chasing six trades yourself.

  • Re-roofing
  • Rewiring
  • Replumbing
  • Waterproofing
  • Plastering
  • Painting
Double-storey terrace house in Kuching at dusk after full renovation, new metal roof, rendered facade and a resurfaced driveway.BeforeAfter

A whole-house renovation is the job most people mean when they call a contractor, and it is the one most likely to go wrong when it is split between trades. The wiring has to be in before the plasterer closes the walls; the waterproofing has to be tested before the tiler starts. Sequencing is most of the work.

We take the house as a single contract. Strip-out, structural repairs, roof, electrical, plumbing, plastering, tiling, joinery, painting and the final clean, in that order, under one supervisor. You get one programme and one price rather than six quotes that each assume somebody else did the preparation.

Older Kuching houses have their own pattern of problems: single-brick walls that were never damp-proofed, wiring that predates the loads a modern kitchen puts on it, and flat roofs that have been patched rather than replaced. We open up and check these before quoting rather than issuing a variation later.

Questions

Whole-house renovation — questions

What does a whole-house renovation include?

Strip-out, any structural repair, roofing, electrical rewiring, plumbing, waterproofing, plastering, floor and wall tiling, ceilings, built-in joinery, painting and the final clean. Anything excluded is written into the quote as an exclusion rather than left to assumption.

Do you rewire the whole house or only the new work?

Either, but we recommend a full rewire on any house over about twenty years old. Partial rewiring leaves old circuits carrying new loads, which is where most electrical faults in renovated houses come from.

Who clears the debris and the old fittings?

We do, and it appears in the quote as its own line rather than as an assumption. Disposal is one of the most common things missing from a cheap quotation — a full terrace strip-out produces several lorry loads, and if nobody priced it, it either appears as a variation or it sits in your porch.

We are overseas — can you run the renovation without us there?

Yes, and a fair number of our jobs run that way. You get progress photographs at each stage, a video walkthrough on request, and every variation confirmed in writing and priced before it is carried out, so nothing is decided on site on your behalf and there is no surprise total at the end.

Get in touch

Tell us about your renovation.

Send a few photographs and the address on WhatsApp and we will arrange a site visit. Quotes are free and itemised.