About Us

We started our business in 1995 as Rainbow Capital Property Rentals - a London Buy-to-Let Landlord. We bought houses and flats, developed them, and rented them by the room to young professional tenants for an affordable price.

We grew over 25 years to own 25 houses and accommodate 125 tenants. We hired our own building and trades people and they became a successful team in their own right.

We decided to sell our property portfolio in 2021 and 2022. The buy-to-let business had became increasingly punitively taxed and harshly regulated.

Now we want to use the building and trades expertise we gained developing and maintaining our own properties to help other owners to improve theirs’.

Why Us?

What makes us better and different to other trades companies and builders?

  1. We are local - we have a reputation to earn and maintain in the SE16 locality. We can’t disappear. We have to win repeat business customers by doing a good job for a fair price

  2. We have an ownership mentality - we are accustomed to working on our properties. We prefer long-term solutions not short term fixes. We believe it is better to do thorough job and get it right first time

  3. We see the whole job and we are multi-skilled - not a rivalry of conflicting trades; we bring together the whole project in the right order to achieve the right outcome

  4. We are good value and have clear pricing - no nasty shock or arguments at the end of the job. Quicker and cheaper is not usually better value.

  5. We take care, we are respectful and we clean up - nothing worse than builders leaving a mess and annoying the neighbours. We will respect your property as if it were our own

James Bush - Technician

James is our most experienced tradesperson and there are few project types he has not worked on in his 25 years in the building business

Godson - RIBA Architect

Godson is an experienced architect, qualified with RIBA and runs his own architectural practice called Studio Seventi. We have worked with Godson for 15 years on over 50 projects

Our Team

Atila Mehmet - Technician

Alongside James, Atila is our second senior tradesperson with 15 years’ building experience across every discipline

Anton - Gas and Heating Engineer

Anton has been a plumber and qualified gas engineer for 25 years…

Andrew Williams - Building Consultant

Andrew is a former landlord, accountant and consultant. He has managed numerous building projects, designed houses and schemes, written planning applications and appeals

Tom Hudson - Technician

Tom has a First Class degree in Real Estate Finance. He advises on projects and designs, and is experienced in repairs and maintenance

Areas We Cover

We are based in Canada Water SE16.

We work in Surrey Quays, Rotherhithe, Deptford and Lewisham.

We confine ourselves to a local area so we do not spend our working day (and your budget) travelling too far from home, are close to our preferred builders merchants and can respond quickly to our customers when they need us.

We cannot travel north of the River Thames as our vans will not fit through the Rotherhithe Tunnel without incurring a penalty. Thanks TFL!