🔧 What does refurb work actually cost? A price guide

A carpet clean costs £40. A full kitchen replacement costs £6,500. Most refurb spend sits somewhere between those two numbers - so we've pulled real prices from our own job costings to help you budget your next project, job by job.

Cheapest fix: a carpet clean at £40. Priciest surprise: damp treatment at £1,400 per wall - one of the few jobs on this list that can genuinely blow a budget if it's not planned for.

🍳 Kitchen
New splashback tiles: £550
New worktops (incl. sink, tap, end caps): £990
New doors, hinges, side panels and plinths: £2,535
Full new kitchen replacement: £6,500

Worth knowing: new doors, hinges and worktops together come to £3,525 - less than the £6,500 full replacement, and often enough to make a dated kitchen feel new again without ripping it out completely.

🔧 Structural and stairs
Damp treatment (per wall): £1,400
New floor joists: £1,000
Raise banister to 900mm with new spindles: £910
Fit missing radiator: £600

Worth knowing: damp treatment is one of the only jobs on this list that's genuinely hard to predict before opening up a wall - it's the one to budget a contingency for, not the one to assume you know the price of upfront.

🚪 Doors and windows
Change lock to thumb turn: £90
New interior door: £150
New UPVC exterior door: £1,025
Reglaze a window: £255
New hinges or locking mechanism: £105

🎨 Decorating and flooring
Full room repaint (ceiling, walls, woodwork): £340
Half-room touch-up paint: £195
New carpet (per room): £440
New vinyl flooring: £265
Carpet clean: £40

Worth knowing: a half-room touch-up (£195) still costs more than half the price of a full repaint (£340) once site visit and materials are factored in - many landlords find it's worth just doing the whole room.

💡 Electrics and lighting
New pendant light fitting: £35
Additional socket (with patch plastering): £175
Replace double socket fronts (x2): £40

🔑 Compliance essentials

The unavoidable basics: EICR £195, Gas CP12 and service £99, key box £95, builders clean £280, end-of-job refuse removal £350. Not exciting, but budget roughly £1,000 for these on any project regardless of scope.

These are individual job prices, not a full property total - most refurbs combine a handful of these depending on what the property actually needs. Prices can vary slightly based on access, condition, and materials, but this gives you a realistic starting point for budgeting your next project.

Want a proper quote for your property? Reach out to landlords@nguhomes.co.uk, and we'll walk it with you.