What a DIY Kitchens Fit Involves in Bridgend
Bridgend covers an unusually wide spread for one name, from the old town around Nolton Street and Newcastle Hill out to the 1980s Brackla estate, the newer Parc Derwen development at Coity, and on through Pencoed to the seafront at Porthcawl. DIY Kitchens sell online from Yorkshire, so the same rigid units land at a Brackla semi and a stone cottage near Laleston with no allowance for the difference. What that difference means for fixings, pipe runs and the order itself is what we settle at the survey.
On the modern estates at Brackla, Broadlands and Parc Derwen the fit itself is clean. Square rooms and level floors mean pre built carcasses go in with very little packing and the week moves quickly. The catch is behind the plaster, because plasterboard on dot and dab or on timber stud will not hold a loaded wall unit on its own, so cabinets get fixed back to the blockwork or into noggins. It is the sort of detail that never appears on an online plan and never gets mentioned in a delivery note, and it is the difference between a wall run that stays up and one that does not.
The older stone properties around Newcastle Hill, Laleston and Coychurch are the opposite job. Solid walls with no cavity mean fixings are slower and dustier, there is nowhere to hide a pipe or a cable so services are chased in or neatly boxed, and an extractor duct through an external wall needs proper coring rather than a quick hole. Wildmill and the older council built estates add a concrete ground floor and boxed in pipework, which constrains where the sink and the appliances can sit far more than the drawing suggests. All of that has to be known before the order is placed, because it can change unit sizes and it certainly changes the number of panels and fillers you need.
Delivery is one large drop of bulky boxes, and on an estate property with a driveway and a garage that is straightforward as long as the garage is dry. Chipboard carcasses stood on a cold concrete floor over a wet fortnight will swell at the base, so keep them up on battens and lay worktops flat. In Porthcawl the humidity is a standing consideration rather than a seasonal one, which is an argument for a genuinely ducted extractor and a well sealed worktop upstand. We check the delivery against your order early because replacements run between you and DIY Kitchens directly. Everything comes with a fixed written quote after the survey, coordinated Gas Safe and electrical work, a workmanship guarantee and public liability insurance.
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.
DIY Kitchens kitchen fitting in Bridgend: your questions
What customers in Bridgend ask before booking a DIY Kitchens installation.
Get a quote for your DIY Kitchens kitchen in Bridgend
We will survey the room, check your DIY Kitchens plan against it, and send you a fixed written price.