Sweet Homes renovates homes in four suburbs around Glasgow: Bothwell, Lenzie, Bearsden and Newton Mearns. We take on kitchens, bathrooms, loft conversions, extensions and whole-house renovations, and we supply and fit everything we install, so one company answers for both the materials and the workmanship.
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Every project starts with your enquiry and a follow-up phone call. A site visit follows where useful, then the written quotation. Please allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry before construction can start. Four weeks is the minimum lead time, not a promised start date. We agree the actual date and programme for your project. Tell us what you need and when.
Where we work around Glasgow
We take on renovation work in Bothwell, Lenzie, Bearsden and Newton Mearns. Bothwell and Lenzie sit on the Edinburgh side of Glasgow; Bearsden is to the north-west and Newton Mearns to the south. We do not currently take on renovation work in the rest of Glasgow.
Sweet Homes is an Edinburgh contractor, and a job in these suburbs runs the same way as a job in Edinburgh: the same sequence, the same supply-and-fit rule and the same written quotation.
The homes we renovate here
Most homes in these suburbs are established family houses: stone-built Victorian and Edwardian villas, interwar bungalows and later detached and semi-detached houses. They are the same kinds of building we renovate across Edinburgh, with the same questions about original features, older services and how a new layout works with the existing structure.
Each page below explains how we run that kind of project. They are written for Edinburgh homes, and the way we work is the same here.
How a project starts
Send the property details and what you are planning, with any drawings and a few photographs. We reply by email, then arrange a follow-up call to work through the brief. A site visit is agreed afterwards where useful, and the written quotation sets out the agreed work.
Please allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry before construction can start. Four weeks is the minimum lead time, not a promised start date. We agree the actual date and programme for your project. That time covers the call, the site visit, the written quotation, your decision and the ordering that has to happen before trades arrive. If you need urgent help, contact an emergency tradesperson.
If you need advice before choosing a contractor, see what our renovation consultancy covers.
For the full sequence and each party’s responsibilities, see how Sweet Homes works.
Building warrants
Where a job changes the structure or the layout, we flag potential warrant requirements early for your appointed architect or warrant professional to confirm, and no work starts until it is granted. Converting a loft or garage into a room and forming or removing an opening in a load-bearing wall are among the common cases that need one. The warrant is granted by the local council: South Lanarkshire Council for Bothwell, East Dunbartonshire Council for Lenzie and Bearsden, and East Renfrewshire Council for Newton Mearns.
You appoint the architect, structural engineer and building-warrant route where the proposal needs them. Sweet Homes remains the contractor: we read that information and price the work it describes.
Our plain guide to building warrants explains which work needs one and the order things happen in. The building regulations are the same across Scotland.
We supply and fit, never labour only
If you have already chosen products, send us their product codes. We buy those exact items for you, after checking availability and suitability, and price the job as supply and fit.
We are members of Edinburgh Trusted Trader and the Federation of Master Builders, and every job is covered by our workmanship warranty and aftercare.
Questions from homeowners around Glasgow
The answers below are the same ones we give on the first call.
Do you cover the rest of Glasgow?
Not at the moment. Around Glasgow we take on renovation work in Bothwell, Lenzie, Bearsden and Newton Mearns. For a property elsewhere in the city that you are thinking of buying, our renovation consultancy covers the Glasgow West End.
How soon can the work start?
Please allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry before construction can start. Four weeks is the minimum lead time, not a promised start date. We agree the actual date and programme for your project. That period covers the call, the site visit, the written quotation, your decision and the ordering that has to happen before trades arrive. If you need urgent help, contact an emergency tradesperson.
Do I need a building warrant?
Converting a loft or garage into a room, and forming or removing an opening in a load-bearing wall, are among the common cases that need one. Where your job changes the structure or the layout, we flag potential warrant requirements early for your appointed architect or warrant professional to confirm. No work starts until the council for your area has granted it.
Will you fit a kitchen or bathroom we have already bought?
No. We supply and fit every job and never fit client-supplied items. If you have already chosen products, send us their product codes. We buy those exact items for you, after checking availability and suitability, and price the job as supply and fit.
How much will it cost?
The written quotation follows the call and the site visit, and is based on the measured property and the chosen specification. For early planning, our renovation cost guide sets out indicative bands, written for Edinburgh homes.
Which council handles the building warrant?
South Lanarkshire Council for Bothwell, East Dunbartonshire Council for Lenzie and Bearsden, and East Renfrewshire Council for Newton Mearns. Your architect or warrant professional makes the application; we flag the requirement early and price the approved construction information.
Buying a property in the area?
Our renovation consultancy can walk a property with you before you commit and set out what the work would involve. See the area pages for Bearsden, Newton Mearns and the Glasgow West End.
Send us the property details
Tell us the property type, the rooms you want to change and any drawings already prepared. Send your enquiry by form or email. We will reply and arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project.