Kitchen and Bathroom Fitters in Godstone (RH9)
A kitchen in a Godstone cottage has to be built around the room rather than dropped into it. Low ceilings, beams in the way of wall units, and floors that have not been level since before anyone measured them.
Working round beams and low ceilings
In the village's older cottages the ceiling height is often the thing that decides the whole layout.
Standard wall units will not go where a beam runs, extraction has to find a route that does not involve cutting through something structural or historic, and tall units frequently will not stand up under a low ceiling at all. The answer is usually a mix of standard units where they fit and made pieces where they do not, set out so it reads as one kitchen. That takes longer to plan and it is why a cottage kitchen should be measured and drawn properly before anything is ordered — a delivery of units that will not fit the room is an expensive way to find out.
Floors, walls and what is behind them
Nothing in these buildings is square or level, so units are scribed to the walls they actually meet and floors are levelled or packed before anything is fitted. Services are the other unknown: pipework and wiring in old cottages tend to have been added to over generations and routed wherever was easiest at the time. We open up, look and tell you before units are ordered. Bathrooms raise the same questions plus the waste fall, which in a period cottage often decides where a bathroom can go at all.
Five minutes away
Our own team does the building work and we bring in and manage the specialists. Being on the High Street means we are minutes from the job, which on a fiddly cottage fit-out matters more than it sounds.
More in Godstone
Everything we do in Godstone is on the Godstone area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the bathrooms & kitchens page.
Common questions
Q.01Can I have a modern kitchen in a period cottage?
Yes, but it usually needs a mix of standard units and made pieces to work round beams and low ceilings. Measured and drawn properly first, it looks made for the room.
Q.02Where does the extraction go?
That is one of the first things to work out in a cottage, because the obvious route is often through something structural or historic. It is settled at the survey, not on the day.
Q.03My floors slope. Does that need fixing first?
Yes. Fitting to a sloping floor gives tapering gaps and doors out of line, and it is much dearer to correct afterwards.
Q.04Do you do bathrooms in cottages?
Yes. The waste fall is usually what decides where a bathroom can actually go, so that gets worked out before anything else.
Q.05Can you fit a shower room in a village cottage?
Usually, and the fall on the waste decides where it can go more than the room size does. In a period Godstone cottage getting waste out of the building at a workable fall without cutting through something structural or historic is the first thing we work out.
Thinking about bathrooms & kitchens in Godstone?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.