Kitchen and Bathroom Fitters in Redhill (RH1)
The kitchen in a Redhill terrace is usually in the rear addition, and it is usually too narrow. Almost every kitchen job we price in those houses starts with the same question: are we fitting a better galley, or are we opening the space up?
Fit it, or open it up
Both are legitimate answers and they cost very different amounts.
A careful refit of the existing galley — better storage, a sensible run, the services brought up to date — is a contained job that can be done in a couple of weeks. Opening the addition into the room beside it, or building out across the side return first, is a building job with a kitchen at the end of it. What we would rather not do is fit an expensive kitchen into a layout that will be knocked about in two years' time, so it is worth deciding which of the two you are actually doing before anything is ordered.
Services in a Victorian rear addition
Rear additions on these terraces were built for a scullery, not for a modern kitchen, and the waste runs and wiring reflect that. Once walls are open we tell you what we have found before units are ordered — a waste run at the wrong fall, wiring that has been extended a few too many times, or a floor that needs levelling before anything is laid. Bathrooms in the same houses tend to sit over the addition too, so the floor build-up and the fall on the waste are the first things we look at rather than the tile choice.
The trades in sequence
Most kitchen jobs go wrong on sequencing rather than workmanship.
Our own team does the building work and we bring in and manage the specialists, so the electrician comes while the walls are open and the tiler is not stood waiting on someone who has gone to another site.
More in Redhill
Everything we do in Redhill is on the Redhill area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the bathrooms & kitchens page.
Common questions
Q.01Can you make a narrow terrace kitchen work without extending?
Often, yes — a lot can be gained from a proper layout, the right storage and moving the services rather than working around them. We will tell you honestly what the room can and cannot do before you spend anything.
Q.02Should I do the kitchen and the extension together?
If you are likely to extend within a few years, doing both as one job usually costs less overall and avoids paying twice for the same disruption. We will price both ways.
Q.03Do you do bathrooms too?
Yes. In these houses the bathroom often sits over the rear addition, where the floor and the waste fall matter more than anything you choose to put in the room.
Q.04How long will the kitchen be out of action?
For a straight refit, a matter of weeks; for a refit with structural work behind it, longer. You get the programme with the written price so you can plan around it.
Q.05Can you put an en suite into a Redhill terrace bedroom?
Often, yes. The limit is usually getting the waste out to the stack at a workable fall without cutting through something structural, which on a terrace needs looking at before anything is designed. We check that at survey and tell you plainly whether the room you have in mind will work.
Thinking about bathrooms & kitchens in Redhill?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.