London SE Flat Renovation - All in 68k
Hi everyone,
I made a post yesterday with basically no context and got roasted accordingly, so I’m back with a slightly more useful breakdown.
We’ve just finished renovating a 2-bed, 2-bath flat in Zone 2, SE London. The total cost came to roughly £67k all-in, including labour and materials.
The renovation was pretty much a full strip-out and redo: we knocked down a wall to create an open-plan kitchen/living space, replaced the floors, kitchen, both bathrooms, lighting, heating, doors and most of the finishes throughout.
Here’s where the money went:
Labour
- £17,000 — Builder
- £5,200 — Electrician
- £2,100 — Plumber
- £1,800 — Painter
Total labour: £26,100
Materials
- £16,500 — Kitchen
- £4,300 — Ensuite
- £3,000 — Guest bathroom
- £3,500 — Flooring
- £1,900 — Heating
- £5,163 — Doors (2.7m-high FD30 pocket doors apparently do not come cheap...)
- £1,200 — Lighting
- £5,471 — Miscellaneous (plasterboard, adhesive, silicone, trims, fixings, etc.)
Total materials: £41,034
Total renovation cost: £67,134
The aim was to completely modernise the flat, make the main living space feel much bigger and spend a bit more on some of the details we cared about, without turning it into an ultra-high-end renovation.
We feel like we did pretty well overall, particularly on the labour costs, and thought it might be useful to show what roughly £67k can get you in London if you’re doing a fairly comprehensive renovation.
Interested to hear what people think — good value for the scope, or are there areas where you think we massively overspent or underspent?