Full villa renovation
We take a villa in any condition and rebuild it around the owner's life today: new layout, new engineering, new finishes. One team is responsible for the entire cycle.
Many villas in Phuket were built ten to fifteen years ago to different ideas of comfort: closed kitchens, cramped bathrooms, air conditioners hung after handover. Renovation gives you a modern home on a good plot without buying a new one. We start with a structural and engineering audit, tell you honestly what is worth keeping and what is cheaper to redo — and only then draw the project.
We run the work as a full cycle: demolition, reinforcement, replanning, new engineering systems, finishing and furniture. The owner doesn't need to coordinate contractors — one Northex project engineer is responsible for the schedule, the quality and how the trades fit together.
Renovating a 300–500 m² villa takes four to eight months. Throughout, the project is open to you in the digital dashboard: photo reports, stage status, payments and the decisions made.
How we do it
Renovation is the most surgical of our services: we work inside existing structures, where every decision depends on what the opening-up reveals.
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Audit and survey before design
We open up control zones and check the condition of concrete, roofing, hidden services and waterproofing. The findings become a defect schedule — the design rests on the building's real condition, not on assumptions.
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Demolition that protects the frame
We strip the finishes back to the structure section by section, protect everything that stays and haul away the debris. Load-bearing elements are reinforced to a structural engineer's calculation.
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Engineering from scratch
We don't patch old runs — we lay new ones: electrical from the board out, water and drainage on a new scheme, air conditioning sized from heat-gain calculations. That is what lets us stand behind the systems with a real warranty.
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Finishes built for a humid climate
Every layer — primer, waterproofing, adhesive, grout — is chosen for tropical humidity and accepted before the next one covers it. Concealed work is recorded by technical supervision.
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Handover with a building passport
The villa is delivered with as-built drawings, equipment passports and a maintenance guide — the next technician will never have to hunt for a pipe with a hammer drill.
Ideas and renderings
Our approach
In renovation the estimate depends on what opening-up reveals. So the audit comes before the main contract: you receive a defect schedule and an estimate where concealed items are priced from facts, not guesswork. Anything that changes along the way goes into a priced supplementary agreement — before the work starts. There are no surprises in the final invoice.
Three people are accountable for the project: the project engineer runs the schedule and budget, the foreman runs the crews day to day, and technical supervision signs off concealed stages. The roles are split deliberately — whoever builds should never be the one accepting their own work.
We don't economise on what can't be seen. Reinforcement, waterproofing and engineering are the larger part of a renovation budget and everything the home's future depends on. Finishes can be refreshed in a month; redoing concealed work costs half a new renovation.
Who works on site
A villa renovation has 12–25 people on site at once. The core is Northex's own crews; narrow specialities join from a proven pool of partners we've completed multiple projects with.
Project engineer
Your single point of contact for schedule, budget and decisions. An engineering degree and experience on sites in Thailand.
Foreman and crews
Demolition, concrete, finishing and MEP crews. The foreman is on site every day, from the start of the shift to its close.
Technical supervision
Signs off concealed work against checklists with photo records. Reports to the company's management, not to the foreman.
Scope of work
- Structural audit and defect schedule
- Demolition and reinforcement
- Replanning and new partitions
- Full replacement of engineering systems
- Roof, façade and waterproofing
- Finishing throughout
- Built-in furniture and lighting
- Final cleaning and key handover
Shall we discuss your property?
Tell us about the task — we'll come back with a preliminary estimate and a plan for the first step.