Kitchens in Warwick, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most Warwick kitchen enquiries are structural enquiries. What people want is a wall gone and a bigger room, and the units come afterwards.
In the post fire buildings that wall is frequently doing more than it looks. These are load bearing masonry buildings, often three storeys on a narrow plot, which means the wall you want to remove may be carrying two floors and a roof rather than one ceiling. The beam has to be sized for what is genuinely above it and the bearing checked rather than assumed, and on a building of this age the bearing is often the part that needs the most thought. That is a Building Regulations matter and we arrange the inspection and see it signed off.
Floors in these buildings are rarely level and rarely square, which matters for a fitted kitchen more than for almost anything else. A run of units set out to a laser in a room that is fifty millimetres out corner to corner will look wrong however good the units are. We deal with that in the preparation rather than with filler at the end.
If the building is listed, a kitchen is not automatically an internal free for all. Removing historic joinery or altering a room’s layout can need consent.
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 Warwick street to the next.
New circuits and consumer unit work are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, and gas work must be done by a registered engineer. You should finish holding certificates for both, and on a listed or centrally located Warwick property a buyer’s solicitor is more likely than average to ask.
Getting units into a narrow town centre property is its own exercise. Staircases in these buildings turn tightly, and a range cooker frequently will not go. We check the route at the survey rather than on delivery day.
On a listed building, even an extractor outlet through an external wall can need consent, so we ask first.
Part of our wider building work in Warwick.
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.
