The housing stock
What we are usually working with
Strand is a mix of original beach cottages, mid-century family homes and a strip of older sectional-title blocks along the beachfront. A high proportion started life as holiday accommodation and is now lived in permanently, which is exactly the transition that exposes every shortcut in the original build.
The local catch
Holiday-build standards meeting full-time living
A house built to be occupied six weeks a year was not specified for daily use: single-skin walls, no insulation, minimal waterproofing, and electrical work sized for a fridge and a kettle. Converting one into a permanent home is a bigger job than it looks from the outside, and the honest version of the quote says so up front rather than discovering it in week three.
In Strand
Nothing on this list is unique to Strand, but the mix is. These are the jobs that actually come up on this patch.
- Converting holiday cottages into full-time homes
- Corrosion repair to external steel, fixings and balustrades
- Sectional-title interior renovations in beachfront blocks
- Rewires, re-plumbs and insulation upgrades
- Waterproofing of flat roofs, balconies and parapets
Most relevant here
Also building nearby
Next step
Eddie will come out, walk it with you and tell you honestly what it takes. No charge for the first visit.