Building Designs

We have had a very bad experience with this company. Specifically with the owner. We hired BD London to do a full renovation of a run down three bedroom Victorian house into a five bedroom family property - including fixtures and finishes. The project was meant to be completed at the end of February and is currently 7 months behind schedule and the budget is over by a quarter of the original quote - now reaching £300k for a £235k project – and we still don’t have a water tight property. We have experienced very aggressive behaviour in meetings, appalling budget discrepancies and are then been called the “worst client they have ever had” for pulling them up on no workmen turning up on site for 6 weeks when water is coming through our bedroom and kitchen walls. The build quality is poor, in particular the plumbing with water not draining on the ground floor and flooding on the second floor which has come through our bedroom ceiling. We have had no architect or project manager for months despite paying a large sum in fees for both of those resources & The builders who worked here lacked any direction or the materials on site to do their jobs. BD London have significantly damaged the original features of a Victorian property (including an original 100 year old floor) and left us to pay to fix it after saying in writing they would pay for the cost of the damages. They cracked the glass in our side return and have not replaced it, despite saying they would attend in August and never turning up. The work they did around our manhole under our kitchen has led to the drainage pipe collapsing under our house, sacks of rubble they left under our floors have fallen into the drains – leaving us with no drainage on numerous occasions and leaving us to have to foot the bill ourselves (now nearly £1k) as they simply don’t respond to emails or calls. We are now bringing in a new contractor to fix all the damages and having to pay for it ourselves - despite already paying BD London to do these works. I would suggest people steer well clear of this company.

We worked with the talented Building Designs, Peter and the team, on a large loft conversion in North East London. Building Designs won the tender for the project and carried out a superb construction job. As architects we'd invite BD to tender on future projects without hesitation.

We worked with Peter and his team on the refurbishment of a house in Chelsea. It was a demanding project with a short timescale. They managed to create a very high quality interior with careful use of the budget. They handled all the project management as well as the construction. Very impressive.