Kitchens in Bedworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Bedworth kitchen enquiries turn out to be structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On the older terraces that rear addition was built lighter than the main house and frequently on shallower foundations. Opening into it is routine work and we do it often, but 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 colliery terraces there is a further consideration. These houses were built to a repeating pattern, which means the wall you want to remove is often doing the same job in every house in the row. That is useful, because it makes the structure predictable, and it is a warning, because a neighbour who took the same wall out without support has not proved that it is safe to do so.
On later housing the constraint is the solid floor: moving a sink or a drain means breaking out and chasing rather than lifting boards. Better known before the units are ordered.
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 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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Bedworth street to the next.
A kitchen is the room you cannot live without, so the programme matters more than the price. On a narrow terrace the old units come out through the hall and the new ones go in the same way, adding a day at each end. We tell you honestly how long you will be without a sink and will usually rig a temporary one rather than leave you washing up in the bathroom.
The certification side matters and is the thing most often skipped. 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 end up holding certificates for both. We would rather hand you a folder at the end of the job than have you chasing a subcontractor two years later because a buyer’s solicitor has asked a reasonable question.
Part of our wider building work in Bedworth.
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.
