Focused upgrade
Target a defined part of the property while retaining suitable existing elements.
- Typical focus
- A specific room, finish or system
- What to resolve
- Condition of retained work and installation interfaces
A useful budget begins with a clear scope.
Understand what shapes the cost of apartment renovation before comparing proposals. Every final quotation follows the property, measured scope and agreed specification.
Complete transformation
Coordinate a full room, property or commercial space as a connected project.
- Typical focus
- Design, removal, specialist works and finishes
- What to resolve
- Complete specifications and a clear work sequence
Bespoke project
Develop a tailored design with custom details and specialist coordination.
- Typical focus
- Original design, fabrication and carefully selected materials
- What to resolve
- Design development, prototypes or samples and procurement
THE COST DRIVERSLook beyond
Look beyond
the area rate.
A square-metre or square-foot rate is only useful when it identifies the measured area, specification and inclusions. It cannot replace a review of your actual property.
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Apartment size and rooms affected
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Retained versus altered service positions
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Lift, delivery and working arrangements
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Joinery, flooring and finish level
What your proposal
should make clear.
Request a scoped review- Measured scope and specification
- Included supply and installation responsibilities
- Allowances, exclusions and unresolved conditions
- Design, approval and procurement responsibilities
- Programme, payment milestones and change process
- Handover information and warranty responsibilities
We do not publish a generic starting price as a substitute for a project scope. Share your working budget and priorities so the proposal can be developed around useful choices.
BUILD A COMPARABLE SCOPE
Make the assumptions visible.
Price the same work before comparing totals. The following information helps connect your Metria brief to an itemised proposal.
Information that supports the quotation
- Building and apartment type
- Building-management information
- Lift and delivery access
- Items of furniture and appliances to retain
- Storage inventory and daily routines
- Floor plans and photographs
Questions for the commercial review
- Which design, supply and installation tasks are included?
- Which quantities and products are confirmed, and which remain allowances?
- Who provides retained-condition investigations or specialist reviews?
- What protection, delivery, removal and making-good work is included?
- How are changes priced and approved before proceeding?
- What documents and completion criteria support the payment stages?
Engineered timber flooring
Check the full floor build-up, acoustic requirements, moisture conditions and transitions to doors and adjacent floors.
Include the ongoing requirement: Follow the product's moisture and cleaning instructions; avoid excess water.
Porcelain flooring
Review the substrate, tile layout, skirting, movement joints and permitted build-up.
Include the ongoing requirement: Keep the grout and finish references with the care guide.
Made-to-measure cabinetry
Allow for doors, drawers, services, ventilation and the transport route into the apartment.
Include the ongoing requirement: Record hardware information and keep access to service panels usable.
Website concepts and general guidance are not quotations. Scope, product choices, applicable charges and commercial terms belong in the written proposal.
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