Improve your listed home while keeping the retained fabric and approved construction scope clear from the start.
★ 4.9/5 · 130+ combined reviews across Google and Edinburgh Trusted Trader · Written quote before work starts
Tell us your general area and the work you are considering and any listing or consent information you already have. Plans, measurements and a settled budget can follow. Send your enquiry by form or email. We will reply and arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project.
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Indicative budget. £48,000–£300,000+ including VAT for listed-building renovation work in Edinburgh. This is a broad guide, not a quotation for a particular building type, repair method or scope.
You appoint the design and approval professionals. Sweet Homes carries out the construction described by the agreed information and consent conditions.
A written quotation follows assessment of the property, consent conditions, agreed scope and specification.
You appoint the design and approval professionals. Sweet Homes carries out the construction described by the agreed information and consent conditions.
Listed building consent, planning permission and a building warrant answer different questions. A project may need more than one of them. The appointed professional establishes the application route and produces the information needed for it; Sweet Homes does not act as the architect or approval lead.
For the build, we need the listing, drawings, specifications and consent conditions that apply to the proposed work. They show which fabric stays, where new work meets old work and which details cannot be decided on site.
The quotation can then identify the construction scope, its assumptions and any specialist work that sits outside it.
Once the relevant design and consent information is established, our home renovations in Edinburgh service explains the construction role and the work that can sit within the agreed scope.
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Indicative budgets are £48,000–£300,000+ including VAT.
This is a broad guide, not a quotation or a price promise for any particular feature or design. The final price depends on the measured property, existing conditions, agreed scope and selected specification. A written quotation follows assessment of those details.
The budget does not include every professional or statutory fee; the agreed written scope sets out what is included.
Stage, timing and budget are optional for your first enquiry.
Drawings record the proposed work, but they cannot make every concealed condition visible. Earlier alterations, damaged timber or a different wall build-up may appear only after work starts.
If a discovery affects the approved proposal or structural information, the affected work pauses. The relevant appointed professional decides what information or approval is needed before that part continues. Any construction change is then dealt with under the project contract.
Sweet Homes appoints the electrician and gas engineer for work inside its construction scope, with certification through those trades. The wider design and statutory route remain with the client’s appointed professionals.
An asbestos surveyor or building surveyor is considered at the initial conversation, according to the building and proposed work.
Not every old building is listed. Where the property is period but carries no listing, period property renovation is the page that applies. Structural alterations covers the openings and load paths inside a traditional building, and bespoke joinery covers the made-to-measure work that matches or replaces what is already there.
Use these guides alongside advice from your appointed professionals. Consent and building warrants answer different questions; the construction scope needs to reflect the approved proposal.
We supply and fit every job. We do not offer labour-only work and we do not offer fit-only work, because one firm owning both the materials and the workmanship gives you one clear line of responsibility. The whole sequence, from first call to handover, is set out on how we work.
Do I need listed building consent, planning permission or a building warrant?
Possibly more than one of them. They answer different questions and are applied for separately. The professional you appoint establishes the application route and produces the information it needs. Sweet Homes does not act as the architect or the approval lead.
How much does renovating a listed building cost?
Indicative budgets are £48,000–£300,000+ including VAT. The range is a broad guide, not a quotation for a particular repair method or building. The property, consent conditions and agreed scope determine the written quotation.
Can original features be kept?
That is decided by the consent and the specification rather than on site. We need the listing, the drawings, the specifications and the consent conditions that apply, because they show which fabric stays, where new work meets old work and which details cannot be settled by the trades on the day.
Will you apply for consent on our behalf?
No. The appointed professional leads the applications. Once consent and the supporting information exist, our quotation identifies the construction scope, its assumptions and any specialist work sitting outside it.
How soon can the work start?
For major projects, allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry. Tell us what you need and when. That period covers the call, the survey, the written quotation, your decision and the ordering that has to happen before trades arrive. If something needs attention sooner than that, say so on the call and we will point you to the right emergency trade for the immediate problem while the planned work is scheduled properly.
What happens after we enquire?
Send your enquiry by form or email. We will reply and arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project. Any site visit is arranged afterwards, where useful.
Why do you not offer labour-only work, or fit materials we buy ourselves?
No. We supply and fit every job, whatever its size. We do not offer labour-only work and we do not offer fit-only work. When one firm buys the materials and carries out the work, you have one clear line of responsibility if something goes wrong, rather than an argument between the product and the fitting. If you have already chosen products, send the product codes and we will buy those exact items and include them in the quotation.
Project responsibility
Brunon oversees project programmes across Edinburgh and is typically available by phone or email. The staff assigned to your job handle the day-to-day site work independently within the agreed scope, with the responsible contact confirmed before work starts.
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