Kitchens in Kettering, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Kettering kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the units follow afterwards.
On the artisan housing the rear addition was built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations, and the wall between them may be carrying more than its thickness suggests. The beam has to be sized for what is genuinely bearing on it, and on a nine inch solid wall the bearing and the padstones need real attention rather than a standard detail. That is a Building Regulations matter and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
On the larger houses the structure is more generous, but the rooms are also bigger, which means longer spans and heavier beams. Neither grade of house is a place for guesswork.
Services are the other half of the job. 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 much cheaper than discovering it 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 Kettering 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 two years later.
A kitchen is the room you cannot live without, so the programme matters more than the price. On a narrow terraced frontage everything comes through the hall, adding a day at each end, and we will usually rig a temporary sink rather than leave you without one.
A range cooker will not turn round the staircase in many of the smaller houses, so it sometimes has to come in before the units do. We check the route at the survey.
Part of our wider building work in Kettering.
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.
