Kitchens in Solihull, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Solihull kitchen enquiries are structural. What people want is a wall gone and a single large room at the back of the house, and the units are what happens afterwards.
On this stock that is usually rewarding work, because the houses are generous and the result is a genuinely large space rather than a marginally less cramped one. It also means longer spans and heavier beams than on a small terrace, and the beam has to be sized for what is actually bearing on it with the padstones and bearing checked rather than assumed. That is a Building Regulations matter and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
A great many of these projects also involve extending, because the plots allow it, which means the kitchen and the extension are one job rather than two. Where that is the case the drainage, the structure and the fit all need coordinating from the start rather than being handed between trades.
Floors are solid on most of the post-war stock, so moving a sink or a drain is a breaking out and chasing job rather than lifting a couple of boards. Better known before the units are ordered than 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 Solihull Metropolitan 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 Solihull 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 paperwork when you sell.
On a Solihull plot there is usually a side door and a drive, which makes the strip out and the delivery straightforward and means we can generally keep a temporary sink running rather than leaving you without one.
Where the kitchen is part of a larger extension, we sequence the fit to the end so it is not standing in a building site for six weeks collecting damage.
Part of our wider building work in Solihull.
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.
