Companies

Here is a complete list of companies we worked with and our experience with them:

Akelec Evolution: electrician. The main contact of the company did good work, but we also had another gentleman who was rather dreamy, worked really slowly and did some mistakes. They corrected everything, but once you go through the process of renovating an entire house, you don't have much patience for the dreamy, not very precise people...

Art Reno: a company which deals with marble and stone things, they cleaned all our chimneys (the external parts) and re-did one marble and one blue-stone step, both of which were broken. They did a wonderful job with both, we were very satisfied.

Decowood design: worked on our entrance door and on the old window frames. Not very precise, we had to call them back several times to re-do the same thing. More info about the challenges we faced under the 'Windows' section of this blog. (They don't seem to have a website, so here are the contact details: Chaussée de Louvain 2A- 1932 Sint-Steven-Woluwe. Tel: 0032 2 721 0998. GSM: 0032 476 450 150)


Demo Design: our architect, Jérôme Lescrenier founded this company. He did all the architectural drawings of the house, helped us think through our plans and coordinated all the works. His experience was invaluable for many of our decisions and also in terms of finding the right people for the various tasks. Jérôme has great ideas and an incredible amount of patience, we would have not been able to finish this project without his involvement.


Gesso: really nice and reliable company dealing with ornaments in plasters, renovating old ceilings, manufacturing mouldings and wall lamps. They were the ones renovating our 3D wallpaper (100+ years old lincrusta in the staircase) and they did an incredible job!!! (see the pictures here to the right)


Getherm: plumber.

Hydrotec: treated the humidity in the basement- we had serious problems with mould on the walls just below the street level. They've cleaned everything, injected the walls and covered them with a special, anti-humidity cement layer. Quality work, good company to work with.

Le Chassis Isolant (LCI): this company does a wide range of things and at very high quality. The most important project they did for us was changing some of our windows, but they also created our bathroom furniture, and assembled our IKEA kitchen. Very reliable people.

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Toiture Fauquet: they re-did our roof and insolation as well as the "corniche". The most challenging company we've come across throughout the whole process, would not recommend it to anyone. We also heard bad feedback about them from our neighbours (unfortunately by then we had learnt the hard way). Our super-patient architect is also planning to avoid them in the future, which says it all... More details under the 'Roof & Attic' section.

Vitesske: chimney cleaning. Im not sure about the quality of their work, because our chimney still doesnt function properly, but it might not be their fault...




2 comments:

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