aspendale

Key facts

• SuburbAspendale
• Property type3 bedroom house
• ScopeKitchen and bathroom refresh, toilet floor resurfacing
• Timeframe3 weeks
• What we providedAssessment, recommendations, a specification sheet, scheduling and on-site quality checks
• Site visits2
• Who paid the tradesThe owners paid the trades directly
• Handled by the ownersPainting, timber floor polishing, and buying the appliances and bathroom fixtures from our specification sheet
• Trades on site5: kitchen and bathroom resurfacer, benchtop relaminator, plumber, electrician and handyman

The situation

The owners had bought their next home and needed this house ready for sale. They had started some renovation work, but time was short and some jobs had been done out of order.

Their agent suggested Kudo Homes and advised freshening up the kitchen. The owners hadn’t considered refurbishing it. They had planned to paint the kitchen and bathroom themselves and didn’t know refurbishing was an option, so they were unsure how the result would look.

What we recommended

We suggested the owners hold off the work they had started and let us take over the kitchen and bathroom. The work was resurfacing and replacing damaged or worn fixtures, not rebuilding the rooms.

Kitchen. We removed the appliances, resurfaced the cabinets and splashback, relaminated the benchtop, updated the handles, installed new appliances, repaired the damaged internal shelving and siliconed all the edges.

Bathroom and toilet. We removed the shower and tapware, resurfaced the vanity and the wall and floor tiles, replaced the bathware and shower screen, and siliconed all the edges. The toilet floor was resurfaced.

Throughout. The owners had already arranged the painting and timber floor polishing, so we scheduled our trades around that work.

How we ran the project

With five trades on site and the owners’ own painting and floor polishing under way, the work had to happen in the right order. We gave the owners one process, instead of leaving them to brief and organise each contractor.

1. Assessment and recommendations. We assessed the house and recommended the owners hold off their own renovation so we could take over the kitchen and bathroom.
2. Specification sheet. We gave the owners a specification sheet listing every item they needed to buy.
3. Selections. We suggested which appliances and bathroom fixtures would suit the kitchen and bathroom, and recommended a supplier. The purchases were the owners’.
4. Scheduling. We booked the trades in the order the job needed, around the painting and floor polishing the owners had already arranged.
5. Site visits and quality checks. We made two site visits: a midway visit to check how the job was tracking, and a final visit to check the finished work.
6. Trade payments. The owners paid the trades directly.

What the owners didn’t have to manage

Without this process, the owners would have had to work out what each trade needed, decide the sequence, coordinate availability and check the finished work themselves, with time already short.

Instead, the work followed our recommendations, specification sheet and schedule, and the owners made the final purchase decisions.

The outcome

Within three weeks the kitchen, bathroom and toilet floor were refreshed. The kitchen refresh wasn’t something the owners had considered at the start.

The house reached the point it was prepared for: ready for photography and listing.