A kitchen is the most services-dense room in a house. We build them as a construction project rather than a furniture delivery — structure, drainage, power, gas and ventilation resolved before a single cabinet arrives.
Kitchen suppliers quote for cabinetry and appliances. Almost everything that determines whether the installation goes smoothly happens before that.
The most common kitchen failure is not a bad fit — it's a service in the wrong place, discovered when the units go in. A waste run that can't achieve its fall, an extract route that turns out to cross a structural beam, a hob position with no dedicated circuit reaching it.
We set out services against the final cabinet drawing, not against the room. That means the kitchen design has to be fixed before first fix, which occasionally means asking you to make decisions earlier than you'd like. It is considerably cheaper than making them later.
Worktops are templated after the units are installed and levelled, never before. Stone fabrication then typically takes one to two weeks, and the kitchen isn't usable until it returns — a gap worth planning around rather than being surprised by.
We install kitchens supplied by any manufacturer — if you've specified with a designer or a showroom, we'll build to their drawings and coordinate the delivery and installation programme with them.
Where you'd rather have it made, we work with joiners on bespoke cabinetry built to the room rather than to a module size. On period properties with out-of-square walls and awkward returns, bespoke frequently costs less than heavily modified off-the-shelf once scribing and infill panels are accounted for.
Yes. We install kitchens from any supplier. It helps enormously if we can see the design before it's ordered — a twenty-minute review usually catches a service clash or an appliance that needs a circuit nobody has allowed for.
A straight replacement in the same layout is usually 2–3 weeks. Moving the kitchen, opening a wall or relocating drainage typically makes it 4–8 weeks. Add one to two weeks for stone worktops, which can only be templated once the units are in.
The cabinetry itself, no. But new electrical circuits are notifiable under Part P, gas work must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer, structural openings need calculations and approval, and drainage alterations and ventilation are covered too. In practice most real kitchen projects touch at least one of these.
Usually. The constraints are drainage — how far you can run a waste with adequate fall before you need a pumped solution — and extraction, which needs a viable route to an external wall. Both are worth establishing before the design is finalised.
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