Avantgarde | Property Renovation & Alteration Reviews 10

TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

2.4

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Company details

  1. Construction company
  2. Bathroom Renovator
  3. Electrical installation service
  4. Home Builder
  5. Kitchen Renovator
  6. Plumber

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We are a property renovation and alteration company based in London


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2.4

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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Exhausting experience

We are extremely disappointed and honestly very angry about the experience we’ve had. We trusted you, paid you on time every single time, and in return we were left with unfinished work and very poor-quality results in many areas. Floors have been badly done and will cost us a significant amount to redo. We’ve only used them less than a month and they are breaking already. Walls, ceilings, and door frames were all poorly finished, far below the standard you promised.

At the beginning, you started well, but very quickly your attendance became inconsistent. You stopped showing up regularly, worked half days most of the time, and made minimal progress both daily and weekly. Despite this, you continuously blamed delays on everything except your lack of work.

You also began demanding advance payments every two weeks, often threatening not to return if we didn’t pay. This created constant stress and was incredibly difficult to deal with—especially as we were living on site and could clearly see that the delays were due to insufficient work being done.

There was not a single week where you delivered what you said you would. Every deadline was missed, and the same line—“we’ll finish in two weeks”—was repeated for months without any real timely progress.

When the work was finally “completed,” it was nowhere near the standard agreed. Any guarantee you offered is meaningless, as you do not answer calls or come back to fix issues.

It became worse when we decided to trust you again and you accepted another job from us. You promised to fix all the issues left from the previous job and to start immediately after receiving a deposit, yet we had to chase you for a full week while you gave multiple excuses for not showing up. Then you disappeared entirely for another week, not answering either your work or personal phone. When we requested a refund due to your absence, you refused.

Eventually, you reappeared and recommitted to the job—but completely outside the agreed timeframe. Even then, you failed to meet expectations: you arrived alone despite promising an additional worker, showed up late (often around midday), worked only partial days, and frequently didn’t show up at all. After the third time you didn’t you up and ghosted us once again, you said you wouldn’t come back to work leaving us with not even one task completed and we still haven’t received the refund of the deposit.

This has been an exhausting and frustrating experience from start to finish.

Do not hire this Adam if you expect reliability or timely completion. He consistently overpromises, underdelivers, and requires constant chasing just to get work done. The least you can do at this stage is return our deposit and the money we paid for the flooring that we have to completely redo.

20 April 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

So glad I ignored the 1 'bad' review

So glad I ignored the 1 'bad' review, as Adam is brilliant!! I am a long term Landlord / Property developer with health needs, I have had more bad experiences to date, than good. Adam is a very hardworking and fair tradesman. Polite, eye for detail, has great creative ideas. Very high standard work, non stop working. Excellent plumber and all round high skills in multiple areas. Made many 'difficult' jobs, appear simple and most importantly with a smile. Without a doubt, I will always contact (and only recommend) Adam for any future work, hopefully for me, he will not be too in demand!! Loyal.

20 October 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do Not Work with Adam

I could not recommend Adam less. We have had an awful experience.
We hired him through AirTasker to tile our bathroom floor and install two blinds. A week after he 'completed' the work we were faced with all of the grout crumbling between the tiles, the door not fitted back properly so it caught on the new floor and a leaking sink. One of the blinds has also collapsed as the fitting was not screwed into the wall correctly.

Adam has now disappeared. We have sent multiple messages, AirTasker has contacted him but we have been left out of pocket with a ruined bathroom floor and having to fix these issues ourselves.

11 September 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

First class door and frame installation

Unlike many building firms, they turned up on time. The task at hand was to finish my porch project with a new door frame and door. Unlike many firms that came before them, Adam made an assessment and gave me a price that evening. In the end the door installed was a high quality oak door and looks amazing. All in all I am very pleased. Great work and very decent and pleasant people to work with.

24 September 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent kitchen renovation

Very clear and professional communication and very high end finish. I hired Adam to do my kitchen backsplash and replace the sink and tap. He was very professional and did an excellent job of tiling, and the plumbing. He took real pride in the job and the end result was excellent.

18 September 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

AMAZING service

AMAZING service. Can’t recommend enough. Avantgarde went above and beyond to deliver to my expectations, with a quality finish and professional service.

Thanks so much. Will definitely be back to utilise this great company again!

12 July 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Avantgarde a true work of craftsmanship delivered!

Avantgarde! Well what can i not say?

Avantgarde completely met above and beyond our expectations for our renovation it’s not the first time but they have been maintaining our business properties almost a decade now but this particular time the renovation was in our own residential home which consisted of building a custom tv unit built into the wall to house a 70” tele and to have alcoves on the side, during the project we decided to have a modern fireplace built in which the team responded to with no problems and re adjusted the whole design and suggested if we wanted to have a sound bar they would happily build it in.

We wanted a simple lighting bulkhead in the living room but they said to let them design something special and they did not fail to impress my whole family with the design (the elders enjoy the bright lights, i enjoy the warm dim lights and the kids love the colour changing rgb lights) basically something to keep everyone happy! (We faced few issues whilst it was being built where the wrong lights was ordered and the dimmer switches we’re having issues but they sorted all the problems out without giving us any headache within hours of discovering the issues)

We went for marble design porcelain tiles which required many different precision cuts the team had set up a professional wet tile cutting machine outside the house and dealt with everything besides the heavy rain and storm dennis causing a havoc not to forget they had work in a occupied family house they are very friendly with kids.

Our bathroom needed re-tiling but we ended up with installing a mono mixer vanity basin (something I’ve always wanted but thought its a big job) but Avantgarde again made the install feel effortless and also installed a new de-misting mirror and shaver sockets on the house.

Our kitchen needed a light due to previous issues and mould growing on the corners of the wall from some building issues Avantgarde happily re treated our ceiling walls with special paint quotes and left it looking nice and clean again these little touches made the whole family happy and have faith in builders once again.

I’m sure I have missed out many points where Avantgarde really done a great job but right now my emotions have made me point out as much as I could Avantgarde have really and truly done a wonderful project and we wish them all the best for future projects as for sure we will be using them on many future projects hopefully.

Thank you very much Mr Adam and Team Avantgarde for the amazing craftsmanship.

25 February 2020
Unprompted review

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