Kitchen Fitting in Pontypridd
Pontypridd sits where the Rhondda drops into the Taff, and the town centre around Taff Street, the Old Bridge and Ynysangharad Park is ringed by terraces that climb straight up the valley sides. On the Graig, Graigwen and Hopkinstown the front door opens onto the pavement and the back of the house can sit a full storey lower than the front, which changes how a kitchen gets carried in before you even open a box. Out at Church Village, Tonteg and Beddau the picture flips to newer estate housing with a completely different set of problems.
Fitting kitchens in Pontypridd properties
Most of the older Pontypridd stock is colliery terrace built into the hillside, so a house on the Graig can read as two storeys at the front and three at the back, with the original kitchen in a single skin rear outshut that runs cold and often needs attention before anything is fitted against that wall. The walls are solid stone, frequently well over 400mm thick, which holds a fixing beautifully but is slow to core for extractor ducting and awkward for running new waste. Floors move, ceiling heights change from room to room and almost nothing is square, so units are scribed and packed rather than simply pushed back against a wall. The newer estates at Church Village, Tonteg, Beddau and Llantwit Fardre are level and square by comparison, but they are dot and dab plasterboard over blockwork, where wall units must be fixed back to something solid instead of into the board.
We are based on Woodland Street in Mountain Ash, about 15 minutes down the A4059 and A470 from Pontypridd, so we survey, fit and come back for any snags without treating the journey as a day out. Every installation starts with a home survey and a fixed written quote, and we coordinate the plumbing, electrical and tiling work so you are dealing with one team rather than four.
Areas of Pontypridd we cover
Kitchen fitting in Pontypridd: your questions
Common questions from customers in Pontypridd and the surrounding Rhondda Cynon Taf area.
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