Kitchens in Leicester, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Leicester kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is the wall between the kitchen and the rear addition gone, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On the Victorian and Edwardian stock this is usually rewarding, because the rooms are generous and the result is a genuinely large space. The structure needs respect though. The rear addition was built lighter than the main house and often on shallower foundations, and on a three storey villa the wall you want to remove may be carrying two floors and a roof rather than one ceiling. The beam is 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 other 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 much cheaper than discovering it after they arrive.
On later 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 so the fit goes in properly. 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 Leicester 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 Leicester 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 when you come to sell.
On a villa plot there is usually a side door and a drive, which makes the strip out and delivery far simpler than on a terrace where everything comes through the hall and adds a day at each end.
A range cooker will not turn round the staircase in many of the older terraced houses, so it sometimes has to come in before the units do. We check the route at the survey rather than on delivery day.
Part of our wider building work in Leicester.
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.
