Kitchens in Daventry, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Daventry kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is a wall gone and a bigger room, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On the estate housing that dominates the town this is well trodden ground. The construction is consistent, which makes the structure predictable and the pricing honest, but predictable is not the same as trivial: the beam still 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.
The floor is the other constraint on this stock. A solid ground floor means moving a sink or a drain is a breaking out and chasing job rather than lifting a couple of boards, and it is much better known before the units are ordered than after they are stacked in the hall.
In the older core the questions change: lighter rear additions on shallower foundations, suspended timber floors, and a frontage that may be under the Article 4 direction if any external work is involved.
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 your 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 West 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 Daventry street to the next.
A kitchen is the room you cannot live without, so the programme matters more than the price. On the estates there is usually a driveway and a side door, which makes the strip out and the delivery far easier than in the town centre, where everything comes through the front. We tell you honestly how long you will be without a sink and usually rig a temporary one.
The paperwork matters and it is the part most often skipped. 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. We would rather hand you a folder at the end of the job than have you chasing a subcontractor two years later when a buyer’s solicitor asks a perfectly reasonable question.
Part of our wider building work in Daventry.
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.
