Lewisham HMO Conversion
A landlord with a tired four-bedroom terrace in Lewisham wanted to convert it to a licensed six-room HMO before their next tenancy. The house was structurally sound but everything else needed replacing: partition layout, electrics, plumbing, kitchen, bathrooms, and fire compartmentation from scratch.
We started by stripping the first floor back to the structure. Two new stud partitions created a sixth bedroom, and each room was re-laid with acoustic insulation between floors before boarding — a requirement for HMO licensing that most landlords find out about too late. Fire-rated board went up throughout on week two.
Each of the six rooms got a compact en-suite: 900 × 900 shower, vanity unit and heated towel rail. All six were plumbed off a single manifold in the airing cupboard — cleaner pipework, easier maintenance, and a single isolation point if anything goes wrong. Tiles went in on day twenty-two; all six rooms were grouted by the end of that week.
The communal kitchen is the part that lets an HMO down or lift it. We fitted a full run of units, a double oven, two induction hobs and a bank of individual fridges with lock options — tenant-friendly without looking institutional. New LVT flooring runs through the kitchen and into the hallway under a single threshold, no trip hazard, easy to clean between tenancies.
"Six rooms, six en-suites, licensed and tenanted inside two months. They even sorted the compliance pack."— Portfolio landlord, Lewisham
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