Kitchens in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Market Harborough kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the units follow.
Because the kitchen is almost always at the back of the house, this is one trade where the Little Bowden Article 4 rarely interferes, and that is worth saying plainly rather than implying constraints that do not apply. The exception is where the project involves a new external door, window or extractor outlet on a front elevation, which does need checking.
On the older housing the rear addition was built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations. Opening into it is routine work, but the beam 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 later housing the constraint is a solid floor, where moving a sink or a drain means breaking out and chasing rather than lifting a couple of boards. That 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. 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 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 Market Harborough 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.
A kitchen is the room you cannot live without, so the programme matters more than the price. We tell you honestly how long you will be without a sink and we will usually rig a temporary one rather than leave you washing up in the bathroom.
On a narrow older frontage everything comes through the hall, adding a day at each end, and a range cooker will not always turn round the staircase. We check the route at the survey.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
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.
