Start with the services
We don’t decide this from floor area or the number of rooms on a quotation. We look at what has to happen to the electricity, plumbing and heating.
A rewire can make staying unfeasible. So can extensive plumbing work or a heating upgrade. One room on a plan doesn’t always mean one room’s worth of disruption.
Staying during contained work
Our clients routinely remain at home for one-room projects. We don’t rule that out because trades will be working in the house.
It still has to be discussed against the actual scope. If one of those service changes is in the planned work, we’ll say when we think staying is no longer workable. We won’t turn that into a rule based on the project price or an invented number of weeks.
Sometimes a holiday is the practical answer
Moving out doesn’t have to mean finding somewhere else for the whole renovation. Where one stretch of the programme carries most of the disruption, we may recommend timing a holiday to cover it.
That recommendation comes from the work planned for your house. It isn’t a blanket rule tied to room count or whole-property scope.
Put any daily service promise in the contract
We don’t make the same day-to-day service promise for every project. Any daily service commitment we make belongs in the contract for that job.
Before agreeing the work, ask which services the scope affects and whether the contract makes a project-specific commitment about them. If it doesn’t, don’t fill the gap with an assumption.
What to tell us at the first conversation
Email us the rooms you plan to renovate and any expected service changes. Add a couple of suitable call windows.
We can then discuss whether staying appears workable and whether timing a holiday around the most disruptive stretch makes more sense.