Kitchens in Burbage, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Burbage kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries with a kitchen on the end of them. What people want is a wall gone and a bigger room.
In the older cottages that wall is frequently doing more than it appears. These are small buildings that have been extended and altered repeatedly over a long period, and it is not unusual to find an opening formed by somebody who did not bother with an adequate lintel, hidden behind plaster for decades. We open up and look rather than assuming, and we would rather find that deliberately than have it find us.
The beam has to be sized for what is genuinely bearing on it and the padstones and bearing checked rather than assumed. That is a Building Regulations matter and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
On the estate housing the constraint is the floor. A solid ground floor means moving a sink or a drain is a breaking out and chasing job rather than lifting a couple of boards, and it is much better known before the units are ordered than after they are stacked in the hall.
We do not sell kitchens. You buy the units wherever the deal is best and we take the room back to sound walls, level floors and services in the right places. If your supplier’s plan will not work in the space, we say so while it can still be changed. Our kitchen work page covers where our part starts and stops.
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 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough 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 Burbage street to the next.
New circuits and consumer unit work are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, and gas work must be done by a registered engineer. You should finish holding certificates for both rather than chasing a subcontractor for them two years later.
In a village core cottage the front door opens onto the footpath, so a kitchen delivery is a pavement operation. Units come in through the front in sequence rather than all at once, and a range cooker frequently will not turn into the room at all. We check the route at the survey.
Extractor ducting is the detail to settle early, because on a front elevation the council has a view about where it comes out.
Part of our wider building work in Burbage.
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.
