Kitchens in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Hinckley kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries wearing a kitchen hat. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On the late Victorian houses that rear addition was built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations. Opening into it is routine 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.
Services are the other half of the job. Moving a sink in a house with a suspended timber floor is straightforward. Moving one in a later house with a solid floor means breaking out and chasing, and it is much better to know which you have before the units are ordered than after they are sitting 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 so the fit goes in properly. If your supplier’s plan will not work in the space we will 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 Hinckley & Bosworth 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 Hinckley street to the next.
A kitchen is the room you cannot easily live without, so the programme matters more than the price. On a narrow Victorian frontage the old units come out through the hall and the new ones go in the same way, which adds a day at each end. We tell you honestly how long you will be without a sink, and a range cooker will not go round the dog leg staircase in an older house, so it sometimes has to come in before the units do.
The paperwork side matters more than people think. New circuits and consumer unit work are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, and gas work has to be carried out by a registered engineer. You should finish the job holding certificates for both. We would rather hand you a folder at the end than have you chasing a subcontractor for a document two years later when a buyer’s solicitor asks for it.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
