Kitchens in Coventry, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Coventry kitchen enquiries are really structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the kitchen is what happens afterwards.
On the Victorian terraces in Chapelfields and Stoke 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 the bearing have to be checked rather than assumed. That is a Building Regulations matter, and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
On post-war housing the constraint is the floor. A solid ground floor means moving a sink or a drain is a chasing and breaking out job rather than a matter of lifting a couple of boards, and it is much better to know which you have before the units are ordered than after they arrive.
Where the house is non-traditional construction, and a proportion of Coventry’s post-war stock is, the wall you want to remove may not be doing what you assume it is doing. We establish that first.
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 the 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 Coventry City 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 Coventry street to the next.
A kitchen is the room you cannot live without, so the programme matters more than the price. On a terrace with no side access the old units come out through the hall and the new ones go in the same way. 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 for three weeks.
The certification side matters and gets skipped. New circuits and consumer unit work are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, and gas work has to be done by a registered engineer. You should end up with certificates for both, and you will want them when you sell. We would rather be the firm that hands you a folder at the end than the one that leaves you chasing a subcontractor two years later for a piece of paper that should have come with the job.
Part of our wider building work in Coventry.
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.
