Kitchens in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most of the kitchens we are asked about in Lutterworth are not really kitchen jobs. They are structural jobs with a kitchen at the end of them, because the thing the customer actually wants is the wall between the kitchen and the old rear addition to disappear.
On the older houses in town that rear addition was usually a scullery, built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations. Opening into it is entirely doable and we do it often, but it needs a beam sized for what is genuinely above it and it needs the padstones and the bearing checked rather than assumed. That is a Building Regulations matter, and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
Services are the other half of the job. Moving a sink in a house with a suspended timber floor is straightforward. Moving one in a post-war house with a solid floor means chasing or reworking the run, and it is better to know which you have before the units are ordered rather than after.
We do not sell kitchens. You buy the units wherever you get the best deal, and we take the room back to sound walls, level floors and services in the right places so that the fit goes in properly. If your supplier’s plan will not work in the space, we will say so while it can still be changed.
Our kitchen work page covers what we do and what we leave to your supplier.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Harborough District Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our kitchens page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Lutterworth street to the next.
A kitchen is the one room you cannot easily live without, so the programme matters more here than the price does. In a Lutterworth town house with no side access, the old units come out through the hall and the new ones go in the same way, which adds a day at each end.
We tell you honestly how long you will be without a sink, and we will usually set up a temporary one rather than leave you washing up in the bathroom for three weeks. Appliance delivery is the other pinch point, because a range cooker will not go round the dog leg staircase in an older Lutterworth house and sometimes has to come in before the units do.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
