Kitchens in Corby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Corby kitchen enquiries are structural. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the dining room gone, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On conventional cavity construction this is well trodden work, and because the housing was built to consistent types, the structure is unusually predictable. That is genuinely helpful for pricing honestly. Predictable is not the same as trivial, though: the beam still has to be sized for what is actually 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.
Where the house is one of the non-traditional post-war types the picture changes, because the internal walls may be doing something quite different from what they appear to be doing, and in some systems the structure is in the frame rather than in the walls at all. Establishing the type comes before designing the opening.
Floors are solid on almost all of this stock, which means moving a sink or a drain is a breaking out and chasing job rather than lifting a couple of boards. 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 Corby 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 a subcontractor for paperwork when you sell.
On a Corby plot there is usually a side door and a drive, which makes the strip out and the delivery straightforward, and it means we can usually keep a temporary sink running rather than leaving you without one.
Extraction on a post-war house usually vents through a cavity wall, which is a clean and simple detail. On a non-traditional type it needs more thought, and we settle it at the design stage.
Part of our wider building work in Corby.
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.
