Which HMO service do you need?
Every service below is carried out by our own site teams and trusted trades, priced after a free site visit and finished with certificates and photos for your licence file.
HMO conversions
Turning houses and other buildings into well-planned shared homes.
- House to HMO conversion: Converting a family house into a shared house that meets licensing and building rules.
- Small HMO conversions (3–6 sharers): Conversions for three to six sharers, planned around the room sizes and kitchen and bathroom ratios.
- Large HMO conversions (7+ sharers): Conversions for seven or more sharers, including planning drawings, building control and bigger fire systems.
- Commercial and above-shop to HMO: Turning offices, upper floors over shops and other buildings into shared homes.
HMO refurbishment
Full refurbs, between-tenancy turnarounds and room upgrades.
- Full HMO refurbishment: Stripping out and refurbishing a tired or failing shared house from top to bottom.
- Void and between-tenancy refurbs: Fast turnarounds between tenancies: repairs, redecoration, flooring and safety checks.
- Bedroom upgrades and room refits: Room-by-room upgrades: storage, desks, lighting, sockets, flooring and finishes.
- Student HMO refurbishment: Hard-wearing refurbs for student houses, timed around the academic year.
- Professional and co-living HMO refurbs: Higher-specification shared homes for working professionals, with ensuites and better shared spaces.
Kitchens and bathrooms
Ensuites, communal kitchens and shared bathrooms built for sharing.
- Ensuite installation: Compact ensuite shower rooms built into letting rooms, with drainage, extraction and waterproofing.
- Communal kitchen refits: Shared kitchens sized for the number of sharers, with the extra sinks, cookers and storage councils ask for.
- Shared bathroom and shower room refits: Hard-wearing shared bathrooms and shower rooms with good extraction and easy-clean finishes.
Fire safety works
Detection, fire doors, protected routes and fire stopping.
- HMO fire safety upgrades: Bringing a shared house up to the fire standard its size and layout need: detection, doors, routes and separation.
- Fire alarm and detection systems: Mains-wired interlinked alarms and panel systems, designed, installed and certificated.
- Fire doors: Fire door sets with closers, intumescent strips and smoke seals, fitted and recorded.
- Escape routes, emergency lighting and fire stopping: Protected stairs and landings, fire-resisting linings, fire stopping and emergency lighting.
Licence and compliance works
Council schedules of work, electrics, sound, energy and damp.
- Licence condition and schedule-of-works: Pricing and completing the works a council lists in licence conditions, notices or inspection letters.
- Rewires and EICR remedials: Electrical remedial work, consumer units, rewires and certificates for shared houses.
- Sound insulation: Reducing noise between letting rooms and floors with acoustic walls, ceilings and doors.
- EPC and energy upgrades: Insulation, heating, controls and glazing works to raise the EPC and cut running costs.
- Damp, mould and HHSRS repairs: Finding and fixing the cause of damp and mould, plus repairs for HHSRS hazards.
Extra rooms and layouts
Lofts, extensions and layout changes that add or improve letting rooms.
- Loft conversions for extra rooms: Dormer and roof-light lofts that add letting rooms, planned with the fire route in mind.
- Extensions for extra rooms: Rear and side extensions that add bedrooms or a bigger kitchen to a shared house.
- Layout changes and room reconfiguration: Moving walls, splitting or merging rooms and relocating kitchens to make an HMO work.
Common questions
What is an HMO?
A house in multiple occupation is a home shared by people who are not one household, such as unrelated sharers who each have a bedroom and share a kitchen or bathroom. The exact legal definition and licensing thresholds differ between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
What does HMO refurbishment include?
Anything from a single fire door or bathroom to a full strip-out: fire detection and fire doors, kitchens and bathrooms sized for the number of sharers, electrics, damp repairs, decoration, and the certificates a council asks for.
Do you work outside England?
Yes. We carry out HMO works in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and we price against the rules for each nation and the council’s own standards.
Can you price a council schedule of works?
Yes. Send us the council’s letter, licence conditions or notice and we will price each item separately and give you evidence of completion.