Partial renovations · Valencia
Partial renovations in Valencia: renovate only what you need
Just the kitchen. Just the bathroom. The floors, the painting or the windows that never seal. One job at a time, with the scope closed before we start, a fixed written price and a house you can normally carry on living in — in Valencia, La Eliana and across the Camp de Túria, and run in English from the first visit.
Get a fixed written quoteCall · +34 632 224 555Not every home needs gutting from top to bottom. Sometimes what a house asks for is something contained: floors that are past their best, a bathroom that could be usable for another twenty years, the whole place painted in one go, or windows that let in the cold and the noise from the road. That is a partial renovation — a focused job on one room or one trade, leaving the rest of the house exactly as it is. It is what most people ask us for first, whether they have just picked up the keys or have been living here for a decade.
The classic mistake is hiring it piecemeal: the floor fitter on one side, the painter on another, the window company on its own, and you in the middle trying to work out whose turn it is and who pays for the damage. We do it the other way round. One site manager plans the job, puts the trades in an order that makes sense and hands the finished room back at the price we agreed, with the fewest possible days of work in your house.
And we will tell you when it is the wrong idea. If the site visit shows that fixing things one at a time will cost you more than doing them together, we say so and we weigh up a full home renovation with you. A partial job is supposed to save you money, not chain you to three winters of overlapping work.
01 What it is and when it makes sense
What a partial renovation is and what it covers
One area or one trade in your home, done properly, with nothing touched that did not need touching — not half a full renovation delivered in pieces.
New flooring
We replace your flooring with porcelain, vinyl or laminate, either lifting the old floor or laying over it where that works.
Painting and skimming
We paint the whole home, take off textured finishes and skim the walls smooth — the change that costs least and shows most.
Windows and joinery
We replace windows in PVC, aluminium with a thermal break or timber, for better insulation against heat, cold and noise.
A single room
We renovate just the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room or a bedroom, with a finish that sits well beside the rest of the house.
Targeted services
We renew tired runs of plumbing or wiring without opening up and redoing the whole house.
Damp and defects
We treat damp, cracks and small defects where they are, before the problem has time to travel.
Does the job go beyond one area? Kitchen renovations and bathroom renovations have pages of their own, and so do painting and interior design. If it reaches the whole house, look at full home renovations instead.
By type of job
Types of partial renovation: kitchen, bathroom, floors, painting and more
Each job has its own timing, its own running order and its own quirks. These are the partial renovations we are asked for most across Valencia and the towns around it, and what is worth knowing about each one before you start.
Partial kitchen renovation
Updating the kitchen without touching the rest of the house is the job we are asked for most. Keep the water supply and waste connections where they are and you save the plumbing work, which is where the money goes. When the job grows — opening the wall to the living room, moving the sink — it stops being partial: you can see that scope in our kitchen renovations.
Partial bathroom renovation
The classic bath-to-shower conversion, or refitting the whole room while keeping the layout. Small, but technical: waterproofing and ventilation are what decide whether you are back in there in five years. The full scope is on our bathroom renovations page.
New flooring
Changing the floor lifts a house like almost nothing else. You can either take the old floor up or, if it is sound and level, lay laminate or vinyl straight over it and save yourself the rubble and several days of work. What makes it look right afterwards is the skirting and the thresholds at the doorways.
Whole-home repainting
Painting the house in one go — with skimming and the removal of textured finishes where they are needed — is the partial job with the best change-for-your-money ratio. It goes best with the house as empty as you can get it, and it is judged on the cornices, the frames and the corners, because that is where the craft shows.
New windows and living room
Swapping windows for thermal-break joinery with double glazing makes the house quieter and cheaper to run, and it is usually a matter of days rather than weeks. A partial job on the living room — floor, paint, layered lighting and sometimes a fitted unit — changes the room you actually use, without major work.
Façade and exteriors
On a villa or a detached house, working on the façade alone — paint, crack repair, waterproofing or external insulation — heads off damp before it reaches the plaster inside, and never involves your furniture. It is a very sensible partial job when the problem is outside rather than in. The whole-house version of it lives on our villa renovations page.
02 Your project
Choose your situation
Every partial renovation starts from a different complaint. These are the four we are called about most; pick the one that reads like your house.
Just the kitchen
Updating the kitchen and leaving the rest of the house alone. The challenge: keeping the cost down by leaving the services where they are.
Just the bathroom
Turning a bath into a shower, or refitting the whole room. The challenge: waterproofing it properly and sorting the ventilation.
Floors and painting
Giving the house a new face with flooring and paint. The challenge: skirting, joints and corners finished with real care.
Façade or exterior
A villa with its problems outside rather than in. The challenge: treating the cracks, waterproofing and improving insulation.
03 The big question
Is it worth renovating in stages?
When the money will not stretch to everything, doing the house in stages is a perfectly sensible plan: you deal now with what is broken or what you use every day, and you leave the rest for later without having to undo any of it. It is, in effect, a run of partial renovations with a plan holding them together.
What makes it work is the running order. If the plumbing is coming out as well as the floor, the plumbing goes first; if the walls are being skimmed and painted, that happens before the new floor is laid. Do it the other way round and you are lifting or protecting something you have already paid for. Which is why it helps to have one person holding the whole picture from the beginning, even when the work is spread over three or four years.
At the site visit we help you sort it out: what to do now, what can safely wait, and how to sequence the stages so no trade has to come back and repeat itself. The pricing section below gives you a guide figure for each type of job so you can see where the money lands.
Just bought the place
Just moved in? What to do first
The cheapest week of work you will ever buy is the one before the furniture arrives. An empty house means floors can come up, walls can be skimmed and a bathroom can be stripped out without anyone wrapping a sofa or living around a skip.
So the order we suggest to people who have just picked up the keys is short. First anything that leaks, trips or lets water in. Then the rooms that are awkward to redo later — the bathroom and the kitchen. Then floors and paint, which both want an empty house. And last the things you can happily live with for a year, by which time you will know how you actually use the place, which is not always what you assumed on the second viewing.
If you are already in and settled, none of that is lost. It just means we work room by room and hand each one back finished before the next one opens.
No translating required
A small job, still run in English
A good share of the partial work we take on around La Eliana, La Cañada, Bétera and Rocafort is for people who live here all year and would simply rather not negotiate a bathroom in a second language.
- One English-speaking contact for the whole job. The person who measures the room is the person who writes the quote, and the person you ring if the tiler has not turned up.
- The quote and the town hall paperwork talked through in English before you sign or file anything. The official forms themselves are in Spanish and will stay that way; what changes is that you know what each line of them says.
There is a longer version of all this — the licence questions, the site visits, what happens while you are out of the country — on the page we wrote for English-speaking builders in Valencia.
04 Investment
How much a partial renovation costs in Valencia
No two houses are the same, but there are market ranges by type of job, and they are useful for working out roughly what league you are in before anybody quotes you. Read them as a market guide, not a quote: the real figure is set after the site visit.
| Job | Guide price | What it usually includes |
|---|---|---|
| Whole-home repainting | ≈ €1,500–€3,000 | Painting a home of around 90 m², wall preparation and protection of floors and furniture. Skimming or taking off textured finishes adds to it. |
| New flooring throughout the home | ≈ €30–€70 per m² | Materials and labour (porcelain, vinyl or laminate). Lifting and carting away the old floor costs more than laying over it. |
| Window replacement | ≈ €350–€700 per window | New window in PVC or aluminium with a thermal break, removal, fitting and making good, per unit and according to size. |
| Bathroom renovation | ≈ €4,000–€9,000 | Sanitaryware, wall and floor tiling, shower screen, vanity unit and taps, with the bathroom plumbing and wiring renewed. |
| Kitchen renovation | ≈ €6,000–€15,000 | Units, worktop, appliances, flooring, tiling and services, keeping the layout so the cost stays where you want it. |
| Living room renovation | ≈ €3,000–€8,000 | Flooring, painting and layered lighting, with the option of a fitted unit or a decorative wall finish. |
Indicative market ranges for Valencia in 2026, published to help you plan and nothing more. Nobody can price a room from a table: what yours comes to depends on how big it is, the state it starts in and the finishes you settle on.
What moves the price
Above all the condition it starts from: the older and more worn, the more preparation before anything new goes on. Then whether the old finishes have to come off or can be worked over, the level of finish you pick, and whether the job reaches the hidden services — plumbing, wiring — or stops at the surface.
So we would rather walk the room, measure it and hand you a fixed quote with every line priced than publish a catalogue figure that turns out to have nothing to do with your house. Whatever that number says, it is the number you pay.
Getting the most from a tight budget
How to prioritise a partial renovation on a tight budget
A well-planned partial renovation is not about doing the cheapest thing. It is about choosing well what to tackle now so the money you do have goes as far as it can. After 35 years this is what we tend to tell anyone who wants to spread the spend.
First, whatever is failing or holding the rest up. A leak, a worn-out service, live damp, a window letting water in — all of that comes before any finish. Painting over a damp wall without dealing with the cause is money thrown away: it is back within months.
Never economise on what ends up buried. If a wall is open anyway to change a run of pipe or cable, do the job properly while it is open. Going back into it in a year means taking up a floor and tiling that you have only just paid somebody to lay. On a partial job it is the single most expensive way to save money.
Group what shares a trade and a room. If the house is being painted and the floor is being changed, run them back to back so nothing is protected twice and nobody cleans up twice. And if one partial job keeps leading to the next until it has covered most of the house, a full home renovation sometimes works out cheaper. We will show you that with numbers at the visit rather than ask you to take it on trust.
Not sure which job to do first?
Send us a photo of the room, rough measurements and what is bothering you most about it. You will hear back inside 24–48 hours with an honest steer on what to tackle now and what can wait.
Price my partial job05 The Batecs method
How we handle your partial renovation
A clear, ordered process, built around keeping the days of work in your house to a minimum.
Site visit and advice
We look at the state of the area, listen to what you want out of it and tell you plainly what is worth doing and what is not.
Proposal and quote
We fix the scope and the finishes and put them in a written quote, itemised line by line, with nothing left to be decided later.
Planning
We line up materials and trades and, if you are going in stages, set the order each job has to happen in.
Coordinated build
Our own team does the work, with the trades following one another under a single site manager.
Quality control
We check the finishes, the joints and that everything actually works before we call the area done.
Handover
We give the room back clean, checked and ready to use, after as few days of disruption as we can manage.
In most partial renovations you can carry on living in the house: we organise the work by area and by hours so the upheaval stays small. And the company that starts the job is the one that finishes it — we have been on site in this area for more than 35 years with our own team, and under current Spanish law we stand behind the work we carry out and the materials we fit.
06 The decision
Partial or full renovation: how to decide
Neither is better than the other. It depends on how many problems have piled up. Here is what each one buys you.
Renovate just enough, spend less
- A contained job: one room, or one trade.
- Less money out, and fewer days of work.
- You can usually stay in the house throughout.
- Ideal for going in stages with a plan behind it.
- The right call when the rest of the house is sound.
Renovate everything in one go
- Layout, services and finishes all renewed together.
- More money out, but one coherent result.
- Worth it once the problems start stacking up.
- The best moment to improve how the house performs.
- Usually means living somewhere else while it runs.
The practical rule: if it is one specific thing — a bathroom, the floors, the painting — go partial. If the problems stack up, with the layout, the services and several rooms all wanting attention, and fixing them separately costs more, look at our full home renovations. At the site visit we say what we think, even when what we think is that you need less work than you came asking for. You can also read how we work, step by step, before you commit to anything.
07 Our work
Partial renovation projects
A sample of the sort of contained work we do across Valencia and the Camp de Túria.
Just the kitchen, leaving the house untouched
An enclosed kitchen in a flat in the Eixample, with the water connections kept where they were to protect the budget: white units, quartz worktop, new tiling and storage taken up to the ceiling. The rest of the flat was never touched and the family stayed in it throughout.
Bath-to-shower conversion
The bath came out and a flush shower tray went in, with a glass screen, a wall-hung basin and large-format tiling in a dark tone. We reinforced the waterproofing and fixed the ventilation so damp would not follow, without touching the rest of the bathroom or the house.
Renovated villa façade
Work on the outside of a villa and nothing else: cracks treated, natural stone cladding and waterproofing, with no trade ever crossing the front door. A very worthwhile partial job when the trouble is outside — it buys both kerb appeal and protection against damp.
There is more finished work in our gallery of projects — among it the classic white kitchen from the first card above, alongside bathrooms and whole-house jobs.
08 Finishes
Materials and finishes
We steer you towards materials that bring something back — not only how they look, but how long they last and how little they ask of you.
Flooring
Porcelain, heavy-duty vinyl or water-resistant laminate: tough against water and wear, easy to keep and quick to lay.
Painting
Washable emulsion, water-based enamel or mineral paint depending on the room, with the walls skimmed first where they need it.
Windows
PVC, aluminium with a thermal break or timber, with double glazing that holds back the heat, the cold and the road.
Bathroom
Flush shower tray, made-to-measure screen, wall-hung sanitaryware and thermostatic taps, over waterproofing done properly.
Microcement
A seamless finish for floors and walls with a contemporary look. Applied and sealed properly, it behaves beautifully.
Façade
Exterior paint, crack repair, waterproofing and external wall insulation where the house will get something back for it.
Paperwork
What paperwork a partial renovation needs, and who files it
Spanish town halls sort building work into two boxes. Minor works — obra menor — covers jobs that leave the structure, the layout and the outside of the building as they were: painting, changing floors, refitting a bathroom in the same footprint, replacing windows like for like. Those are normally cleared with a responsible declaration (declaración responsable), which is a form you file before you start rather than a permit you wait for.
Major works — obra mayor — is the other box: anything that touches the structure, changes the layout in a meaningful way, extends the house or alters the façade. That route needs a building licence (licencia de obra), and normally a drawing signed by a technician before it is granted.
Which box your job falls into is decided by your own town hall, not by us and not by a website: two neighbouring town halls can read the same job differently, and a flat in a block can add the residents’ association on top. So we do not promise you a route before we have stood in the room. What we do promise is that at the site visit we tell you which one yours looks like, we prepare and file the documentation, and we go through in English what you are putting your name to. If the answer changes once the town hall has looked at it, you hear it from us before anything is ordered.
Two things worth reading before you commit to anything. Who handles your town hall, and in which language, is covered on English-speaking builders in Valencia. And if what you are really after is finished rooms that hang together, start with interior design.
09 Before you start
Mistakes worth avoiding in a partial renovation
- Hiring each trade yourself, with nobody responsible for the order they arrive in.
- Painting or tiling over damp before anyone has dealt with what is causing it.
- Going in stages with no plan, and undoing in March what was finished in January.
- Saving money on the pipes and cables that end up buried, then paying twice to reach them.
- Forgetting waterproofing and ventilation in a bathroom because the room is small.
- Stringing together partial jobs that, added up, would have been cheaper done as one.
Gallery
Rooms we have handed back finished
Kitchens, bathrooms and single rooms renovated across Valencia: contained work, finished to the same standard as a whole house.
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Related projects
One room at a time: jobs we have finished
Three renovations where we touched a single room and left the rest of the house exactly as it was.
Coverage
The towns where we take on partial jobs
We work out of La Eliana, which puts a bathroom in Rocafort or a floor in La Cañada twenty minutes from the door rather than half a day away. From there we cover Valencia city, the whole Camp de Túria and l’Horta Nord.
Where most of our international clients live
And the rest of our regular round
Before you ask
Partial renovations: the questions we get asked
What counts as a partial renovation?
Any work that renews part of the home — a room such as the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room or a bedroom, or one specific trade such as floors, painting, windows or a service — without covering the whole house. What separates it from a full renovation is that the scope is closed from the start and, normally, you can carry on living in the house while it happens.
How much does a partial renovation cost in Valencia?
It depends on the job. As a market guide, not a quote: painting a home of around 90 m² runs to roughly €1,500–€3,000; changing the floor, €30–€70 per m² for materials and labour; replacing windows, €350–€700 a unit; refitting a bathroom, €4,000–€9,000; and a kitchen, €6,000–€15,000. Your own figure is set after the site visit, in a fixed written quote, itemised.
Can I live at home during the partial renovation?
In most cases, yes. Because the scope is contained, we organise the work by area and by hours so the upheaval stays small. With a single bathroom or a repaint, staying put is perfectly workable. Where the job would leave you without water or without a usable bathroom for several days, we say so up front and look at the options with you rather than let you find out on the Tuesday.
How long does a partial renovation take?
It depends on the scope. Painting a house or changing a few windows is usually a matter of days; a bath-to-shower conversion, about a week; a full bathroom refit, 2–3 weeks; a kitchen, somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks. The proposal carries a realistic date, and that is the date we work to.
Is it worth renovating in stages?
Yes, when the budget will not stretch to everything at once. Going in stages lets you deal with the priorities now and leave the rest for later without undoing any of it. What makes it work is the running order — services first, then floors and finishes — and one person holding the whole picture from the beginning. We help you sort that out at the site visit.
When is a partial renovation right for me, and when a full one?
If it is one specific thing and the rest of the house is sound, go partial. If the problems have stacked up — a layout that does not work, tired services, several rooms wanting attention — and fixing them separately costs more than fixing them together, a full home renovation usually wins. We will tell you which we think it is at the visit, including when that means less work for us.
Do I need a permit for a partial renovation?
It depends on what the work touches, and your town hall has the last word. Painting, changing floors, refitting a bathroom without moving walls and replacing windows like for like normally sit on the minor works side, obra menor, and are cleared with a responsible declaration, the declaración responsable you file before starting. Anything that touches the structure, really changes the layout, extends the house or alters the façade sits on the major works side, obra mayor, and needs a building licence, the licencia de obra, usually with drawings signed by a technician. Two neighbouring town halls can classify the same job differently, so we never promise you a route before we have seen the property. At the visit we tell you which one it looks like, we prepare and file the paperwork, and we explain in English what you are signing.
Do you give a fixed quote on partial jobs too?
Yes. After the site visit you get a fixed quote, itemised line by line, exactly as you would for a whole house. It only moves if you decide to widen the scope, or if something genuinely hidden turns up behind a wall — and in that case we stop, show you what we have found and agree the change with you in writing before carrying on.
Does the old floor have to be lifted to lay a new one?
Not always. Where the existing floor is sound and level, laminate or vinyl can often go straight over it, which saves you the rubble and several days of work. Where it is worn, uneven, or you are changing to a different type of flooring altogether, it is better up. We check it at the visit and tell you which applies in your house.
Do you do just one room, or the rest of the home too?
Both. We can renovate one area on its own — only the kitchen, only the bathroom, only the floors — or fold the job into a full renovation of the whole house if it grows that far. We will show you with numbers at what point one becomes better value than the other.
Which areas do you carry out partial renovations in?
Valencia city, plus the Camp de Túria and l’Horta Nord worked outwards from La Eliana, where the company has its base: Bétera, Paterna, Rocafort, Godella, Riba-roja de Túria, Llíria, La Cañada, San Antonio de Benagéber and their immediate neighbours. If your town is not on that list, ask anyway — the map further up the page shows how far we travel for a single room.
In short
A partial renovation renews one area or one trade — kitchen, bathroom, floors, painting, windows or façade — and leaves the rest of the house alone, under one site manager and on a fixed written quote. We do it with our own team, normally without you moving out, and we help you put the jobs in the right order if you would rather go in stages. Whether the paperwork is a responsible declaration or a building licence is your town hall’s call: we prepare it, file it and go through it with you in English.
As a market guide, not a quote: painting a home ≈ €1,500–€3,000, changing the floor ≈ €30–€70 per m², a window ≈ €350–€700, a bathroom ≈ €4,000–€9,000 and a kitchen ≈ €6,000–€15,000. Your own figure comes once we have stood in the room.
One room is a good place to start
Tell us which room, and we will price it
A photo, rough measurements and what you want changed is enough to get going. We come and see it, and you get a written quote in English, itemised job by job, within 24–48 hours. No obligation either way.
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Request my free quotePartial work is one of the nine things we do. The others include full home renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, villas, turnkey renovations and interior design. If you would rather see the method than the menu, how we work lays out the six phases and what lands on paper at each one. And if your house sits up in the villa belt, we are there most weeks: Rocafort, Godella and La Eliana.