Kitchens in Kenilworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Kenilworth kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear room gone, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On a Victorian villa this is usually rewarding work, because the rooms are generous and the result is a genuinely large space rather than a slightly less cramped one. The structure needs respect though. These houses often have a rear addition built lighter than the main house, sometimes on shallower foundations, and the wall between the two may be carrying more than it appears. 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.
Services are the second half. A Victorian house has usually been rewired and replumbed more than once, rarely tidily, and runs are seldom where you would put them. Establishing that before the units are ordered is far cheaper than discovering it after.
On the modern estate housing the constraint is a solid floor, where moving a sink means breaking out and chasing rather than lifting boards.
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 Warwick District 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 Kenilworth 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, and we would rather hand you a folder at the end than have you chasing paperwork when you sell.
On a villa there is usually a side door and a drive, which makes the strip out and the delivery far simpler than on a tight plot. It is one of the few trades where Kenilworth is genuinely easier than the towns around it.
These houses frequently still have a larder or a pantry with a cold north wall and a slate shelf, and it is worth pausing before knocking it into the room.
Part of our wider building work in Kenilworth.
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.
