Kitchen and Bathroom Fitters in Purley (CR8)
In a Purley period house the kitchen has to be built around what is already there. On the estate houses that means original joinery, deep mouldings and rooms that were designed individually — so nothing is standard and nothing is quite square.
Fitting into rooms that were designed one at a time
An individually designed house does not give you the repeatable dimensions a pattern-built one does.
Ceiling heights vary, window positions do not fall where a standard run wants them, and original joinery — panelling, deep architrave, built-in cupboards — is often the reason the room is worth having. The work is in the setting out: measuring properly, deciding early where standard units genuinely fit and where something has to be made, and scribing to walls that lean rather than assuming they are plumb. Fitted as though the room were square, an expensive kitchen shows it immediately in tapering gaps and doors that will not line up.
What is behind the walls, and bathrooms
Houses of this age have usually had their services extended more than once, so once things are open we tell you what we have found before units are ordered — wiring that has been added to over decades, waste runs never meant for a modern kitchen, floors that need levelling across what used to be two rooms. Bathrooms raise the same questions with the fall on the waste on top, and in larger houses there is a further one worth answering before anything is chosen: whether the hot water system will keep up once there is another bathroom on it.
Trades in the right order
A kitchen or bathroom is several trades in sequence and most of what goes wrong is sequencing.
Our own team does the building work and we bring in and manage the specialists, so each arrives when the job is genuinely ready.
More in Purley
Everything we do in Purley is on the Purley area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the bathrooms & kitchens page.
Common questions
Q.01Can a modern kitchen work in an Arts and Crafts house?
Yes, usually as a mix of standard units and made pieces so it works around original joinery and the room's real dimensions. Measured and drawn properly first, it looks made for the room.
Q.02Can original panelling and mouldings be kept?
Where they can be, we would rather keep them — they are usually why the room is worth having. We will say at survey what has to go for the layout to work and what can stay.
Q.03Will the hot water cope with another bathroom?
In a larger Purley house that is often the real question, and it is worth answering before the tiling is chosen rather than after. We look at it at survey.
Q.04Do you supply the kitchen?
Either way. Some customers buy their own units and have us do everything else; others want supply and fit as one job. We price it whichever suits and say what is included.
Thinking about bathrooms & kitchens in Purley?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.