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Sarah T.
Side return, South London
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From main contractors to party wall surveyors and building control.
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People using Renovome Workspace to plan and deliver their project.
Project briefs written with Nova — scope, costs, programme and risks.
Nobody tells you what the job actually is.
You decide you want a side return, a loft or a whole-house refurb. Then comes six to twelve months of fog. Is it allowed, is it affordable, and what happens first?
So you post in a Facebook group, have three builders round on a Saturday, and get back three prices that are not for the same work.
The problem was never the builders. It was that nobody wrote down the job.
Every option below is useful. None of them writes down the job, so you still end up comparing prices for work nobody has defined.
This is what Renovome writes, before anyone is asked to quote.
An example brief for a real kind of project: a Victorian terrace in SE22, a 24 sqm side return, and a homeowner who said £80,000. Every number states what it is based on, and nothing here is presented as certain.
- 1.1Enabling works: strip out existing kitchen, temporary propping to rear wall.
- 1.2Excavation and mass concrete foundations to side return and rear.
- 1.3Drainage diversion around the existing shared run.Provisional sum
- 2.1Structural steel: one goalpost frame and one flitch beam, on padstones.
- 2.2Cavity brickwork to match, reclaimed London stock to the visible face.
- 3.1Warm flat roof with two rooflights, 1,200 × 800 mm.
- 4.1Aluminium sliding doors to the garden, three panels.
- 5.1Kitchen units, worktops and appliances.Excluded — supplied by you
- 5.2Underfloor heating, screed and floor finish.
Nine lines shown of the forty-one in this example. Every professional prices the same forty-one.
Construction is 24 sqm at £3,100–£4,200 per square metre, a south London rate, so £74,400–£100,800. Professional and statutory costs add £6,100–£13,000, roughly 12%. Contingency at 10% adds £8,100–£11,400. That totals £88,600–£125,200, rounded here. It narrows once drawings and a drain survey exist. Your stated budget sits below the range, which is the most useful thing this brief tells you today.
UK working calendar.
The red bar is the party wall award. It runs eight weeks and it is not in anybody's quote.
Party wall award
Your neighbour's flank wall is affected, so an award is likely. Notice periods and a surveyor take 6–8 weeks, and most people discover this after they have appointed a builder.
Serve notice in week 8, before tender. Budget £900–£3,200 for surveyors: an agreed surveyor at the low end, one each at the high end.
Shared drain under the side return
A side return on a Victorian terrace usually crosses a shared drain. Building over it needs a build-over agreement from the water authority, which adds around 4 weeks.
CCTV drain survey at design stage. Carry the diversion as a provisional sum, not an assumption.
Steel lead time
Fabricated steels are quoted at 6–8 weeks from approved drawings. Ordering them when the groundworks finish is what pushes a programme into the next season.
Place the steel order in week 24, at the same time as the foundations are set out.
- —Existing foundations are shallow Victorian brick footings.
- —No asbestos in the rear addition. Not surveyed yet.
- —Ground is London clay, no significant trees within 10 metres.
- —Rear elevation is not in a conservation area.
- —You will live elsewhere for the fit-out weeks.
- —Kitchen supplied by you, fitted in the contract.
Anything not known yet appears here rather than being quietly guessed. Each unknown widens the cost range, and the brief says by how much.
An example, drafted to show the shape of the document. Your brief is generated from your property, your works and your postcode, and stays private until you choose to send it.
What happens to the brief if you change the budget?
Move the slider. The brief updates its confidence flag in real time — no account needed.
Four minutes to a brief.
One sentence
Describe the project the way you would say it out loud. Renovome reads it back as facts.
Three questions
How big, roughly. When you want to start. What worries you most. Each has a plain not-sure answer.
The brief
Minutes later you have scope, an indicative range with its working shown, a programme, and the risks nobody mentioned.
You choose who sees it
Matched professionals — architects, engineers, contractors and trades. One document, the same job described the same way.
No account until the brief exists
The brief renders before anyone asks for an email.
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Goals, budget, timeline, site constraints and scope in one place. Nova reads from it.
Programme & Gantt
Answer a few questions and Renovome generates a real construction programme.
Find the right professionals
Matched with vetted UK professionals and send one consistent brief to everyone.
Risks
Surface what quietly blows budgets — party walls, drainage, lead times — and log mitigations.
Files
Quotes, drawings, surveys and reports stored privately against your project.
Community & guides
Real UK projects, practical questions and editorial guides from the Renovome team.
Match with the right professional for your build.
Browse a curated directory of 10,020 UK professionals across architecture, structural engineering, builders and more — then send one consistent brief to everyone at once.
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Not every job is an extension.
A leaking tap, a socket, a room to re-tile or decorate. Describe it in a sentence, and Renovome writes a clear small-job brief and sends it to matched local trades — 10 trade groups covering 48 services.
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Get a prioritised list of what to do this week, based on your actual project state.
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Practical guidance on planning, costs and managing a build.
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Hard-won lessons and practical answers from other UK homeowners.
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Nova reads your brief so answers and plans are tailored to your specific situation.
Built for UK homeowners
Planning rules, cost patterns and professional contexts are tailored for UK home projects.
What people say after their first brief.
Real UK homeowners who used Renovome to plan, price and organise their project — from a single repair to a full renovation.
"I went from three completely different quotes to one brief every builder could price. Saved me weeks and the awkward 'what exactly is included?' conversations."
Sarah T.
Side return, South London
"The programme was the real surprise. It showed us when party wall, building control and the steel order had to happen — things we had not even thought about."
James & Priya M.
Whole-house refurb, Manchester
"We used the small-jobs flow for a bathroom leak and a few electrics. Same clear brief, but for a Saturday morning job. Exactly what was missing."
David K.
Bathroom & electrical, Edinburgh
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