Kitchens in Burton Latimer, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Burton Latimer kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is a wall gone and a larger room at the back of the house, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On the estate housing that makes up most of the town, this is well trodden work. The construction is consistent, which makes the structure predictable and the pricing honest, but predictable is not trivial: the beam still has to be sized for what is genuinely bearing on it, and 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.
On the older terraces the rear addition was built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations, and the wall between them may be carrying more than its thickness suggests. Given the town’s history it is also worth a look at whether anything below has moved before a long span is opened up.
Floors are solid on the modern stock, which means moving a sink or a drain is a breaking out and chasing job rather than lifting a couple of boards. It is much better known before the units are ordered than after they arrive.
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. Our kitchen work page covers where our part starts and where your supplier’s begins.
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 North Northamptonshire 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 Burton Latimer street to the next.
New circuits and consumer unit work are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, and gas work must be carried out by a registered engineer. You should finish holding certificates for both rather than chasing paperwork when you sell.
On an estate plot there is usually a side door and a drive, which makes the strip out and the delivery straightforward and means we can generally keep a temporary sink running rather than leaving you without one.
We tell you honestly how long you will be without a kitchen, and we sequence the fit so the room comes back into use as early as the work allows.
Part of our wider building work in Burton Latimer.
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.
