Renovation Services
in Islamabad & Rawalpindi

Renovation with DevPro means changing how a building performs, not just how it looks — so most of our jobs touch structure, services and finishes together. A cosmetic refresh is a decorator's job; what we take on is the work that needs an engineer in the room. Broadly, five kinds of project make up almost everything we do in the twin cities.

Structural repair & strengthening

Cracked or settling walls, a slab that has started to leak or sag, columns weakened by years of damp, or damage after a leak or minor seismic movement. We diagnose the cause first, then repair or strengthen — never patch over it. Structural work is where our PEC-registered engineers matter most, because getting a load path wrong is how a small problem becomes a dangerous one.

Additions & extensions

An extra floor, a rear or side extension, a servant block, a covered car porch, or extending a room out into the lawn. These tie new structure into an existing one, so the existing foundations and columns have to be checked for whether they can carry the added load before anything is designed. On CDA, RDA and society plots an addition usually needs fresh map approval too, and we build to what's approved rather than gambling it on site.

Full remodels

An older home taken back to its shell and rebuilt inside — new layout, new kitchen and bathrooms, re-plastered walls, fresh flooring, and completely replaced wiring and plumbing. This is our core renovation job in established Islamabad sectors, where the bones of the house are sound but the interior is thirty years behind how families live now.

Grey-to-finish takeovers

You have a grey structure — your own, or one you bought part-built — and you want it finished properly. We take it from bare shell to move-in: plaster, flooring and tiling, electrical and plumbing fixtures, kitchen, woodwork, paint and handover. Serene Villas in Blue World City is a real DevPro finishing project of exactly this type. Choosing your tier here is the big decision, and our guide to A-grade construction materials in Pakistan sets out what Economy, Premium and Deluxe actually buy.

Façade & envelope upgrades

New external finish, cladding or stonework, re-done boundary walls and gates, upgraded windows and external doors, and the waterproofing that protects all of it. A tired elevation can be transformed without touching the interior — and in the twin-cities climate, upgrading the envelope is also where you fix the seepage and heat problems an old façade was quietly causing.

Renovation makes sense when the structure is sound and the layout is workable; a full rebuild makes sense when the bones are failing or the plan can't be saved. It's the first honest conversation we have with a client, and sometimes the answer isn't the one they walked in expecting.

Renovate when

The structure is sound and the foundations, columns and slabs are in good shape; the layout mostly works and you're refreshing kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and services rather than moving every wall; you want to keep an approved, regularised property as it stands; and the emotional or practical value of staying put is real. Renovation is usually faster, cheaper and less disruptive than starting over — and it keeps a home you already like.

Rebuild when

The structure is compromised — serious settlement, failing slabs, damage beyond economic repair; you want a fundamentally different layout or significantly more covered area than the shell allows; or the cost of fixing everything wrong starts to approach what a new build would cost, at which point you're paying near-rebuild money for a compromised result. When renovation costs approach the cost of new construction, a fresh start often gives you more house for the money.

How do the numbers compare? A ground-up build in the twin cities runs roughly Rs. 6,650–8,800 per square foot combined grey-and-finishing (±8%, lower end on larger plots), with grey structure alone around Rs. 3,200–3,800. Renovation doesn't map cleanly onto a single per-sqft figure, because you're paying for demolition, making-good and selective replacement rather than a clean build — a gutted full remodel lands far higher per usable foot than a straightforward grey-to-finish takeover. That is why we price renovation per scope after an on-site survey rather than off a flat per-sqft rate — the condition of the existing structure is the single biggest variable, and a survey-based quote protects you from paying for guesswork. To sanity-check the rebuild side of the comparison, run your plot through our construction cost calculator or read the full house construction cost breakdown for Islamabad.

Many families want to keep living in the home while it's renovated — that's doable for partial work if it's phased properly, and usually not worth it for a full gut. How you sequence the job matters as much as what you spend on it.

Phasing while you live in

For a single kitchen or a bathroom overhaul, staying put is normally fine — we work in a dust-controlled zone, seal off the area, and keep the rest of the house usable. For a full home remodel that opens up wiring, plumbing and flooring across every room, we recommend vacating: it's faster, cleaner and safer, and it lets trades run in parallel instead of tiptoeing around an occupied house. Where a client must stay, we can phase the work floor by floor or wing by wing — you lose some speed and pay a little more for the disruption of working around you, but it's a real option. We agree the sequence up front so you always know which rooms are live that week.

Older F- and E-sector Islamabad homes

The established sectors are full of solidly built houses from the 1980s and 90s with generous plots and dated interiors. These are ideal full-remodel candidates: the structure is usually sound, so the work is a new layout, new kitchen and bathrooms, complete re-wiring and re-plumbing, and fresh finishes — transforming how the house lives without touching what makes it stand. Damp and old services are the usual surprises the survey turns up.

DHA & Bahria upgrades

Newer societies like DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi and Bahria Town bring a different job: houses only ten or fifteen years old where owners want to modernise a kitchen, upgrade bathrooms to a higher tier, add a floor or a room, or refresh a façade. The structure is rarely the issue here — it's a finishing and additions job, often stepping up a tier. Additions in these societies typically need the relevant directorate's approval, which we handle as part of scope. Whichever society you're in, the process is the same: we survey, scope, quote from what we find, and give you the one-year written warranty on the work.