Plumbing, first and second fix
Full re-plumbs, pressure testing and leak detection before anything is boarded or tiled. The trade he started on in 2001.
Meet the team · Bishop's Stortford CM23 · Hertfordshire & Essex
RenovationPlanltd is a real, registered, one-man building company in Bishop's Stortford — not a lead-generation site and not a call centre. The person who answers the phone, surveys your house, writes the quote and lays the tiles is the same person: Gabriel Stano.
Founder & lead tradesman
Gabriel started on the tools in 2001 as an apprentice on domestic plumbing and bathroom strip-outs. Over 25+ years he added tiling, plastering, carpentry, kitchen and bathroom installation, flooring, decorating and landscaping — learning each one on site rather than on a weekend course — and then put them under one company so customers stopped having to project-manage five separate tradesmen.
He founded RenovationPlanltd to do the whole job with one accountable name on it. He surveys the property himself, prices it himself, orders the materials himself and does the work himself, bringing in a registered specialist only where a job legally requires one (notifiable electrics, gas, structural sign-off). That is why the company carries 48 verified five-star reviews on Checkatrade and MyBuilder rather than a mix of good and bad.
He lives and works in Bishop's Stortford, covers roughly 30 miles across Hertfordshire and Essex, and speaks English, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish. Most weeks he is somewhere between Harlow, Sawbridgeworth, Stansted and Hertford — usually up a roof, under a sink or setting out a tile course with a laser.
What Gabriel does himself
Not a list of things the company can arrange. A list of things the person in the photographs above does with his own hands.
Full re-plumbs, pressure testing and leak detection before anything is boarded or tiled. The trade he started on in 2001.
Large-format porcelain, marble-effect slabs, mitred returns and laser-set-out courses. The trade he is recommended for most.
Strip-out to final seal: tanking, underfloor heating, trays, screens, sanitaryware and second-fix brassware.
Supply-and-fit or fit-only, including Howdens, Wren and customer-bought units, worktops, appliances and services.
Stud walls, staircases, doors, skirting, alcove joinery, media walls and roof carpentry.
Skimming, dry lining, bulkheads, rendering and repairs that leave a paint-ready finish.
Latex levelling and screeding, LVT, engineered wood and tile on a flat, sound subfloor.
Chimney breast removals, openings, garden rooms and full refurbishments with building control liaison.
More detail on the tools, suppliers, insurance and company history is on the about RenovationPlanltd page.
Who else you will meet
Plenty of building companies list a "team" page full of stock photographs. Here is the real structure.
Survey, quote, materials, the work itself and the snagging. If you are talking to RenovationPlanltd, you are talking to Gabriel.
On extensions, full-house refurbishments and tight programmes, Gabriel brings in the same handful of labourers and second pairs of hands he has worked with for years — always under his supervision, never left alone to interpret a drawing.
Notifiable electrical work, gas and structural sign-off are carried out by registered specialists and certificated in your name. Gabriel coordinates them and liaises with building control.
No commission-paid salesperson, no call centre, no lead-generation middleman taking a cut of your quote and passing your number to three strangers.
Questions people ask
Gabriel Stano owns and runs RenovationPlanltd. He founded the company, is its lead tradesman, and is based in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23.
One full-time: Gabriel Stano. Trusted labourers and registered specialists (electrical, gas, structural) are brought in per project under his supervision.
Yes. He does not take on work he cannot be on site for. The person who quotes the job is the person who does it.
Plumbing, wall and floor tiling, plastering and drywall, carpentry and joinery, kitchen and bathroom installation, flooring and levelling, decorating and landscaping — learned and practised on site since 2001.
Based in Bishop's Stortford CM23, working roughly 30 miles across Hertfordshire and Essex — including Bishop's Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Harlow, Stansted, Hertford, Ware, Epping, Great Dunmow, Saffron Walden, Chelmsford, Hoddesdon, Cheshunt. Larger projects further afield by arrangement.
Call or WhatsApp 07578 797937, or email renovationplan.ltd@gmail.com. Mon–Sat, 7:30am – 6:30pm. He answers his own phone.
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