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The HYPE build catalogue. Commercial, insurance, council, conversion and home projects, documented and photographed. Filter by what you came for. Click into any one of them and you get the full breakdown: what they bought, what we did, what changed.

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Featured · Two builds we are proudest of

The headline acts. Pinned to the top.

Two builds we keep coming back to. One an entire back-to-brick rebuild that reset a Victorian terrace for the next fifty years. One an eight-week garage conversion that added a fifth bedroom without anyone moving out.

Back to brick refurbishment in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentBurslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Back to brick refurbishment in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Three-storey, four-bedroom end terrace stripped right back to bare brick, then rebuilt for five-tenant HMO living.

HYPE Building worked with an experienced property investor to bring a 3-storey 4-bed end terrace back to life. Originally planned as a buy-to-let, the scale of hidden damage forced the decision to go fully back to brick: which then unlocked the option of a 5-bed all-en-suite HMO.

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Garage conversion in Werrington, Staffordshire
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Garage ConversionsWerrington, Staffordshire

Garage conversion in Werrington, Staffordshire

A cluttered garage transformed into a warm, fully-insulated home office. New window where the door used to be, internal access from the existing hallway.

Garage conversions are one of the most efficient ways to add usable space to a home. This Werrington conversion took a once-cluttered garage and turned it into a warm, fully-insulated office space: perfect for working from home.

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Every project · Filter by lane

The full catalogue. No load-more nonsense.

Every build on one page. Filter by the lane you care about. Click a card to read the case study: or, where the breakdown is still being written, the holding page tells you what is coming.

Back to brick refurbishment in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentBurslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Back to brick refurbishment in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

HYPE Building worked with an experienced property investor to bring a 3-storey 4-bed end terrace back to life. Originally planned as a buy-to-let, the scale of hidden damage forced the decision to go fully back to brick: which then unlocked the option of a 5-bed all-en-suite HMO.

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Garage conversion in Werrington, Staffordshire
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Garage ConversionsWerrington, Staffordshire

Garage conversion in Werrington, Staffordshire

Garage conversions are one of the most efficient ways to add usable space to a home. This Werrington conversion took a once-cluttered garage and turned it into a warm, fully-insulated office space: perfect for working from home.

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Ex footballer's house · dual extension + total remodel
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentNewcastle-under-Lyme

Ex footballer's house · dual extension + total remodel

Not your standard HYPE renovation. A premium residential build for the new owners of what was once a footballer's family home, already a substantial property on a generous plot, now extended both rear and side, internally re-planned to deliver six bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen-diner, a separate formal dining room, a cinema room, and an en-suite master bedroom with dressing room. Structural Engineer-calculated steels. Five-part build film on HypeTV. The case study tracks the project from 25% through to 90%, final completion photography held back at the owners' request.

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Green-belt property refurbishment · 2-bed to 4-bed under Permitted Development
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentRural Stoke-on-Trent

Green-belt property refurbishment · 2-bed to 4-bed under Permitted Development

Green-belt development is restricted: go through full planning and you can only increase the volume by ~30%. Go through Permitted Development and that number moves closer to 50%. The owners of this dilapidated 2-bed in the rural Potteries knew what could be achieved under PD. HYPE took the property from 2-bed to 4-bed: a two-storey side extension, a single-storey rear, a fully-insulated thermal envelope to current Part L, underfloor heating, an unvented hot water cylinder, and an oak porch detailing that lifts the front elevation to high-end. From dilapidated to unmistakable.

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Iron Market · Commercial to serviced accommodation conversion
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Commercial to ResidentialIron Market, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Iron Market · Commercial to serviced accommodation conversion

Third in the same investor's serviced accommodation series, after Church Street and Silverbirch. Iron Market is a commercial unit in Newcastle-under-Lyme taken through the now-proven HYPE Building SA conversion model: permitted development, structural envelope retained, budget redirected from costly structural works into the interior finishes that booking-platform guests actually see. The owner has asked us to keep dressed-tenant photography off the public site, what you'll see is the before state + the workmanship at mid-build, plus the build film on YouTube.

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The Silver Birch · pub to 6 apartments, Silverdale
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Commercial to ResidentialSilverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Silver Birch · pub to 6 apartments, Silverdale

The Silver Birch was once a hugely popular pub and eatery in Silverdale, rave reviews, full bookings, until COVID closed its doors for the last time. HYPE picked the property up alongside a repeat investor and converted it into six one- and two-bed apartments. The build is also a public masterclass in the four mandatory pre-build checks for any commercial-to-residential conversion: asbestos R&D survey, EPC/insulation strategy, warranty (PCC or NHBC), and acoustic/sound testing. Without these four, the conversion legally and commercially doesn't fly.

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4-bed HMO / serviced accommodation conversion in Silverdale
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HMO ConversionsSilverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme

4-bed HMO / serviced accommodation conversion in Silverdale

A dated property in Silverdale, previously owned by an elderly person unable to keep on top of necessary updates. The new owners came to HYPE with a tight budget and an undecided end-use: HMO or serviced accommodation. Rather than force a decision they weren't ready to make, we built the conversion to work for either. Four bedrooms, communal ground-floor living, two shared upstairs shower rooms. Make-good rather than back-to-brick. Trunking for electrics where chasing would have meant unnecessary spend. Plaster where needed, not everywhere by default. The example of how an HMO or SA conversion can land cleanly on a budget when the build is scoped honestly.

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3-bed mid-terraced to 4-bed HMO conversion, Newcastle-under-Lyme
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HMO ConversionsNewcastle-under-Lyme

3-bed mid-terraced to 4-bed HMO conversion, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A standard Newcastle-under-Lyme terrace in need of modernisation. The interior was dated: and one feature was genuinely dangerous: polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout. These burn fast and release lethal fumes when ignited. They had to go before anything else. Once stripped, HYPE delivered a full HMO conversion: 3 bedrooms expanded to 4 (a second upstairs bathroom carved out of part of the large front bedroom), full rewire, new central heating, fire-rated doors, skirting and architraves, new kitchen, garden lean-to demolished.

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Church St · Commercial to serviced accommodation conversion
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Commercial to ResidentialNewcastle-under-Lyme

Church St · Commercial to serviced accommodation conversion

Done at the investor's request to a tight budget. Most of the structural envelope kept in place. Most of the planning route taken via permitted development. The cost-control work happened up-front: every retained surface, every retained service, every retained opening saved budget that got reinvested in the interior fit-out. The result reads as a high-end serviced apartment, not a converted shop.

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5-bed HMO with kitchenettes · Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent
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HMO ConversionsBirches Head, Stoke-on-Trent

5-bed HMO with kitchenettes · Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent

Most HMO conversions look the same. The investor on this Birches Head project deliberately wanted a property that didn't. Two of the five rooms are en-suite studios with their own kitchenettes, closer to standalone apartments than typical HMO bedrooms. The other three are sizeable shared-bath rooms. The conversion went almost back-to-brick. The result is a property that pulls tenants who'd otherwise rent one-bed flats elsewhere, at HMO per-room economics. A specific commercial play, executed cleanly.

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Piccadilly · Mixed-use conversion, Hanley
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Commercial to ResidentialPiccadilly, Hanley

Piccadilly · Mixed-use conversion, Hanley

A period building on Piccadilly in Hanley, taken from commercial use to five self-contained flats and two shops. What this case study has that the others do not is the raw before: a substantial set of thirty-four photographs showing exactly what the building looked like the day the keys came over.

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Commercial garage to two-bedroom home · now a children's home
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Local Authority WorkStoke-on-Trent

Commercial garage to two-bedroom home · now a children's home

A redundant commercial garage unit taken from commercial use to a two-bedroom bungalow: insulated, partitioned, serviced and finished as a home. The building was later taken on by an operator who runs it as a children's home. It is worth saying why that route matters, because most builders never see it. Converting a building for this kind of end use sits close to HMO work: the same questions about fire separation, room sizes, escape and services, asked by a different inspector. HYPE does the buildings side. Running it, staffing it and everything regulatory belongs to the operator.

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Bungalow flip in Stoke-on-Trent · open-plan kitchen-lounge transformation
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentStoke-on-Trent

Bungalow flip in Stoke-on-Trent · open-plan kitchen-lounge transformation

House flipping is buying low, renovating, selling high: fast. According to BestHeating's UK Flipping Hot Spots Report, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 4th nationally for flipping returns, behind only Manchester, Nottingham and Liverpool. This Stoke-on-Trent bungalow flip has a twist: the owner isn't buying it, they already own it. They're renovating fast, knocking through to create an open-plan kitchen-lounge with island plus a generously-sized conservatory, and timing the sale to the current market. HYPE delivered the build to the wow-factor finish a flip needs to compete.

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Orangery to open-plan kitchen-diner extension, Stoke-on-Trent
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentStoke-on-Trent

Orangery to open-plan kitchen-diner extension, Stoke-on-Trent

The owners had an orangery at the rear of the house that had served its purpose but was no longer the living space they wanted. The brief: replace it with a proper extension, open up the ground floor to create an open-plan kitchen-diner, add a downstairs WC under the stairs, and put a new side door in for access: all within Permitted Development. HYPE built it inside Permitted Development and delivered through the winter window the client needed.

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House extension with open-plan kitchen, games room & bar · Sneyd Green
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House Extensions & RefurbishmentSneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent

House extension with open-plan kitchen, games room & bar · Sneyd Green

The owners approached HYPE wanting a basic house extension. After seeing the potential, they committed to a mesmerising open-plan space that changed how they live. The finished build incorporates an open-plan kitchen, a games room and bar, a utility room, and a garage conversion: with two huge steels plus a connecting steel carrying the load where supporting walls were demolished. HYPE worked closely with the local building officer and a structural engineer throughout. A simple extension brief that grew, correctly, into a substantial whole-house refurbishment.

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King Street HMO · Stoke-on-Trent
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HMO ConversionsKing Street, Stoke-on-Trent

King Street HMO · Stoke-on-Trent

A straightforward, well-run HMO conversion. Five to six bedrooms, every one en-suite, done to the local HMO licensing standard: fire compartmentation, fire doors to every room, LD-grade alarm, communal kitchen to a finished spec. No gimmicks: a clean, compliant, lettable HMO for working professionals and students.

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Student HMO refurb · Stoke Student Quarter (Ed Dovison's second build with HYPE)
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HMO ConversionsStoke Student Quarter, Stoke-on-Trent

Student HMO refurb · Stoke Student Quarter (Ed Dovison's second build with HYPE)

Ed Dovison's second student HMO with HYPE, directly next door to the first. The property had fallen out of favour with Staffs Uni students despite being a few doors from the College Road campus. The problem: dated shared-bathroom layout that today's student tenant pool won't pay for any more. The fix: modernise the layout, add en-suites where the floor plan allowed, refresh the finish. Eight weeks. Four Staffs Uni students locked in before the build had even closed snagging. Final video walks HMO fire regs for open-plan kitchens, useful technical content for any investor planning the same refurb.

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Waterloo HMO · Stoke-on-Trent
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HMO ConversionsWaterloo, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Waterloo HMO · Stoke-on-Trent

Waterloo is a six-bedroom HMO conversion in Burslem with an en-suite to every bedroom and a dormer loft conversion. The building came with serious structural problems, and sorting them properly is the real story of this build: all of it filmed in a three-part series. The owner has asked for the dressed final-state photography to stay private: what we publish is the substantial 21-image before set, a single approved comparison shot, and the films.

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Serviced accommodation investment · Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent
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Commercial to ResidentialPenkhull, Stoke-on-Trent

Serviced accommodation investment · Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent

Buy-to-let and HMO get all the new-investor attention. Serviced accommodation gets quietly underrated: which is exactly why returns on a well-positioned SA investment can compete with much higher-touch property strategies. The owner of this Penkhull mid-terrace was leaning HMO. John pushed back and recommended SA on the basis of the Stoke-on-Trent visitor profile, the Penkhull location specifically, and the operational dynamics that suit short-let in that part of the city. The build delivered an SA-ready property; the case study below explains the two operating models the owner can pick between (agent fee or operator lease) and which one suits which risk tolerance.

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Telegraph HMO · Stoke-on-Trent
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HMO ConversionsStoke-on-Trent

Telegraph HMO · Stoke-on-Trent

Telegraph is a six-bedroom HMO conversion in Stoke-on-Trent with an en-suite to every bedroom. The owner has asked us to publish the workmanship rather than the final dressed shots: a request we always respect.

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Dual-function garage conversion · home office + utility room, Cheadle
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Garage ConversionsCheadle, Staffordshire

Dual-function garage conversion · home office + utility room, Cheadle

Approached during lockdown when the owner needed designated home-office space. The garage was the obvious candidate: but the brief was more ambitious than a single converted room. The owner wanted a home office AND a separate utility space (cleanly isolated from the main body of the house). HYPE delivered both inside the same garage footprint, with heritage-matching brickwork and fenestration so the conversion reads as part of the original house, not bolted on.

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Student HMO 'on a budget' · Stoke University Quarter (3 bed, not 4)
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HMO ConversionsStoke University Quarter, Stoke-on-Trent

Student HMO 'on a budget' · Stoke University Quarter (3 bed, not 4)

Overseas property investor brought a pre-existing HMO in the Staffordshire University Quarter to HYPE during the pandemic. The default play would have been to squeeze a fourth bedroom into the footprint. HYPE recommended the opposite: stay at three bedrooms, expand the communal kitchen-lounge to give students the social space the modern HMO market expects, and add an en-suite to every bedroom. Fewer rooms; better letting outcomes. The build is also a clinic in budget-conscious layout: the former kitchen became a downstairs en-suite bedroom, the former bathroom became its en-suite, an airing cupboard became an integrated wardrobe. Nothing wasted.

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11-bedroom luxury student HMO · for Keele University students
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HMO ConversionsNewcastle-under-Lyme (Keele University)

11-bedroom luxury student HMO · for Keele University students

In January 2019 HYPE set the toughest brief we'd given ourselves: build a student HMO that rivals any luxury student accommodation in Staffordshire. The building was unusual, once two terraced houses, later converted into offices, now needing to come back as a single residential conversion. The result: 11 en-suite bedrooms for Keele University students, plus a cinema room, a chill-out / study room, a dedicated laundry, Cat 5 cable points and USB ports throughout, and, usefully, a planned bin store so tenants don't have to drag wheelie bins from the rear of the property every collection day. Some of the most considered HMO planning HYPE has done.

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Commercial works in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
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Commercial Building WorksTunstall, Stoke-on-Trent

Commercial works in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent

Commercial building works for a Tunstall client. Substantial scope, business-grade brief, 19 documented before-state photographs of the premises HYPE was handed. The client has asked for the dressed end-state to stay private; what we publish is the before condition the team walked into on day one, and a single comparison shot the client signed off.

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Buy-to-let refurbishment in Stoke-on-Trent
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RefurbishmentStoke-on-Trent

Buy-to-let refurbishment in Stoke-on-Trent

A buy to let refurbishment in Stoke-on-Trent, taken on for a landlord who wanted the property turned round and let rather than lived in. Full strip-out, rewire, replaster, new kitchen and boiler, then decorated and carpeted throughout. The kind of property refurbishment that decides whether a buy-to-let works as an investment or becomes a running repair job.

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Accessibility bathroom · Mark Batkin, Longton (built free of charge)
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Local Authority WorkLongton, Stoke-on-Trent

Accessibility bathroom · Mark Batkin, Longton (built free of charge)

Local homeowner Mark Batkin wanted accessibility adaptations to make his bathroom easier to manoeuvre around. The builder he'd hired (via a friend of a friend) walked off after one day saying the job was too big, leaving the bathroom stripped to bare brick days before Christmas. Mark called John for a second opinion. When John saw the state of it, and saw what the additional cost of doing it properly would mean for Mark, John decided to do the whole job free of charge. The Stoke Sentinel covered it. This case study is on the site because Mark and his family wanted other people to know that decent, reliable builders still exist, and because Mark wanted to publicly thank John and the team for stepping in.

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Commercial to Residential Conversion in Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Commercial to ResidentialStoke-on-Trent

Commercial to Residential Conversion in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Why commercial to residential conversion is popular with property investors and an example of a change of use (offices to flats) conversion.

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6-bed HMO with loft conversion · Crewe, Cheshire (former cannabis farm)
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HMO ConversionsCrewe, Cheshire

6-bed HMO with loft conversion · Crewe, Cheshire (former cannabis farm)

A mid-terraced property in Crewe, formerly a cannabis farm. The rip-out exposed exactly what you'd expect from that history (botched wiring, rising damp) plus one thing the team didn't expect: dry rot, spreading from roof-leak water ingress. The build became a masterclass in two things every HMO investor should internalise: why you need a contingency fund, and why due diligence on the LOCAL council's HMO rules matters. Cheshire East has stricter HMO amenity standards than the Stoke/Midlands councils HYPE usually works under, and they cost the owner real money to comply with.

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Listed Building to 9-bed all-en-suite HMO · Burslem
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HMO ConversionsBurslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Listed Building to 9-bed all-en-suite HMO · Burslem

Six studio flats in a Listed Building in Burslem reconfigured into a 9-bedroom all-en-suite HMO with an open-plan communal space. Listed-Building status meant tight liaison with the Heritage Officer alongside the HMO Officer and Building Control: every conservation decision had to satisfy three different regulatory authorities. On top of that: severe water ingress had rotted the purlins throughout, made the front of the property unsafe, and forced a full back-to-brick strip-out plus a new roof. The finished build is one of the most ambitious HMO conversions HYPE has delivered.

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How to stack a HMO deal · Stoke-on-Trent masterclass (MK Yuen)
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HMO ConversionsStoke-on-Trent

How to stack a HMO deal · Stoke-on-Trent masterclass (MK Yuen)

An earlier HYPE job for overseas investor MK Yuen: we sourced the property for him, refurbished it and let it. We no longer source or let property. Today the deal comes to us with the property in hand, and we build it. The build kept the bedroom count down for bigger rooms, en-suites and a large communal space. The case study also walks a typical 7-step process for stacking a HMO deal: a builder's observations, not financial advice.

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Tritech · commercial fit-out, Stoke-on-Trent
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Commercial Building WorksStoke-on-Trent

Tritech · commercial fit-out, Stoke-on-Trent

Commercial fit-out work for Tritech. Not a residential conversion, not an HMO, not a serviced accommodation play: a B2B build for a working business that needed its premises brought up to standard quickly and quietly. The client has asked for the dressed final-state to stay private; what we can publish is the before condition, the finished workmanship, and the one comparison shot the client signed off.

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Three semi-detached barns to open-plan homes · Madeley, Staffordshire
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Barn ConversionsMadeley, Staffordshire

Three semi-detached barns to open-plan homes · Madeley, Staffordshire

Three semi-detached barns in Madeley, a sought-after part of Staffordshire, transformed from agricultural buildings into open-plan residential homes. HYPE retained the striking heritage features (oak purlins, circular windows) and contrasted them with ultra-modern finishes, floor-to-ceiling glazing, and skylight-flooded upstairs rooms. A barn conversion that earns the privilege of altering a heritage building by treating its character with the respect it deserves.

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Garage conversion in Cheadle, Staffordshire
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Garage ConversionsCheadle, Staffordshire

Garage conversion in Cheadle, Staffordshire

Cheadle garage conversion delivered in 5 weeks flat. Full compliance with current Building Regulations, signed off by Building Control. The brief: turn a redundant storage garage into a comfortable, modern home workspace. The owner has asked for the dressed final-state photography to stay private: what we publish is the before condition and the scope of works as delivered.

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Enabling works for a storage company, Stoke-on-Trent
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Commercial Building WorksStoke-on-Trent

Enabling works for a storage company, Stoke-on-Trent

Commercial enabling-works package for a local Stoke-on-Trent storage company. Steel portal frame building: popular as commercial premises, strong, durable, highly resistant to lateral and vertical movement. The headline structural challenge: one of the diagonal braces supporting the steel framework had to move to accommodate a new roller shutter door, and moving it on the same side of the building required Structural Engineer involvement to design a replacement bracing scheme that does the same structural job in a different geometry. Plus external works: dropped kerbs, new ramps, cable installation.

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2-bed bungalow renovation, Caverswall · local authority refurb
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Local Authority WorkCaverswall, Stoke-on-Trent

2-bed bungalow renovation, Caverswall · local authority refurb

A local-authority-owned 2-bed bungalow on the outskirts of Caverswall, tired and overdue for refurbishment. HYPE took it from poor-condition to tenant-ready: new roof, brickwork repaired at the gable end, asbestos drainpipe safely removed under non-licensed protocols, lean-to demolished, new central heating, full rewire, walls re-skimmed, new joinery, full driveway and garden overhaul, plus a new wet room with disabled access. The build is shown through the 5-part HypeTV series rather than photography: and the case study is also where we share what neighbours said about the team. Including Nancy, who took a bad fall during the build and was helped by our Site Manager Dan.

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Fire-damaged house reinstatement, Burslem
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Local Authority WorkBurslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Fire-damaged house reinstatement, Burslem

Fire damage is one of the more sobering things you walk into as a builder. This Stoke-on-Trent Council-owned bungalow in Burslem had a fire start in the living room and spread rapidly through the property. No one was hurt, but the home needed bringing back to life. HYPE delivered a full restoration: rewire, new gas system + Vaillant boiler, plastering, painting, smoke alarms throughout, new windows and doors, new ceilings where the fire had taken them. The council required the kitchen units and carpets be left as-was (their property-spec standard), the kitchen had survived thanks to the door holding the fire back. Project completed ahead of schedule and on budget.

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4-Bed HMO conversion for Staffs Uni students
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HMO ConversionsStoke-on-Trent

4-Bed HMO conversion for Staffs Uni students

This student HMO conversion in Stoke's University Quarter involves completely modernising the house to maintain the appeal to Staffs students.

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For the right build only

Build it right.
Build it HYPE.

We take on substantial building work across Stoke-on-Trent and the Midlands: extensions, conversions, full refurbishments, commercial works and repairs after fire, flood or damage. Properly scoped projects, not odd jobs or reactive maintenance.

We're VAT registered, so on smaller jobs a non-VAT builder will always undercut us. That's just the maths. Our work pays off where doing it properly matters more than the cheapest quote.

If that sounds like your project, tell us what you've got. We'll tell you straight whether we're right for it, and if we're not, we'll say so. Either way, we wish you all the best x.

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