Barry DIY Kitchens Fitting, Dock Terrace or Waterfront Flat

The coastal factor is worth thinking about at order stage rather than afterwards. Properties near Barry Island, the Knap and the waterfront sit in salt laden air with higher humidity, and it is the hinges, the drawer runners and the handle finishes that show it first rather than the doors. Spending the saving you made on the units on better hardware and an extractor that genuinely vents outside is better value than upgrading the door fronts. The carcasses themselves are chipboard, so a well sealed worktop, a proper upstand and real ventilation matter more here than they would inland.

Access splits the town in two. Around Holton Road, Buttrills and Cadoxton there is no off street parking, so the lorry drops kerbside and pre built units get carried in past the front room, which is why we ask for a space to be kept clear near the door on delivery day. Those dock era kitchens are usually a small back room or a rear outshut where the run is short and every millimetre counts, and walls that are not square and floors that move mean the order needs fillers and scribe panels the online planner will not have added. On the waterfront apartments the shell is square and modern, and the whole question becomes the lift, the communal entrance and whatever hours the building management allow for deliveries.

Storage between delivery and fitting is easier on the Colcot and Gibbonsdown estates, where a garage takes a full order, than in a terrace where the front room has to do the job. Either way keep it dry and off a cold floor. Check the delivery against your order the day it lands, because replacements are handled between you and DIY Kitchens as the account holder and a shortage found early is a phone call rather than a lost week. Barry is about fifty minutes from our base at Mountain Ash, which we build into the start time rather than into the price, and most fits run five to ten working days with a fixed written quote agreed beforehand.

What is included

• DIY Kitchens specialists
• Full assembly service
• Worktop templating
• Complete project management

Fitting DIY Kitchens kitchens

DIY Kitchens is an online supplier, so there is no showroom visit and no designer standing in your kitchen. That puts more weight on getting the measurements and the order right up front, which is where a survey before ordering pays for itself. Units arrive rigid and pre-built, so once they are on site the fit moves quickly.