Kitchen and Bathroom Fitters in Merstham (RH1)
A Merstham kitchen job could be a cottage in the conservation lanes where nothing is square, a terrace where the question is whether to open up, or an estate house where it is simply a better layout. They are not the same job.
Cottages and terraces
In the older lanes the kitchen has to be built around the room: low ceilings, beams where wall units want to go, floors that have not been level in a very long time, and units scribed individually to walls that lean. It is slower work and it is what makes the finished room look like it belongs. In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces the question is the familiar one — refit the narrow kitchen in the rear addition, or take the wall out and make one room of it. Both are legitimate, they cost very different amounts, and it is worth deciding which before anything is ordered rather than fitting a good kitchen into a layout that will change.
The estate houses, and what is behind the walls
On the post-war stock the structure is usually simpler and the constraint is where the services already sit — the stack, the drain run and the boiler. Across all three parts of Merstham the same rule applies once things are open: we tell you what we have found before units are ordered. Bathrooms come down to the floor and the fall on the waste, and in the older properties the floor is nearly always the first thing to deal with.
Trades in the right order
A kitchen is several trades in sequence and sequencing is where most jobs come unstuck.
Our own team does the building work and we bring in and manage the specialists.
More in Merstham
Everything we do in Merstham is on the Merstham 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 an old Merstham cottage?
Yes, usually with a mix of standard units and made pieces to work round beams and low ceilings, measured and drawn properly before anything is ordered.
Q.02Should I open up my terrace kitchen or refit it?
Both work and they cost very different amounts. Worth deciding before you order, so you do not fit a good kitchen into a layout you will change.
Q.03Do you do bathrooms as well?
Yes. It comes down to the floor and the fall on the waste, and in the older properties the floor usually needs dealing with first.
Q.04Do you supply the units?
Either way — we price supply and fit, or fit only, and say plainly what is included.
Q.05Is a bathroom refit worth it in an older terrace?
Often, yes — if the layout works, replacing the suite and tiling is a contained job. What is worth checking first is the floor, because in a Victorian or Edwardian Merstham terrace it has usually taken a great deal of settlement and tiling onto it as it is leads to cracked grout.
Thinking about bathrooms & kitchens in Merstham?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.