No Showroom, No Designer: DIY Kitchens Fitting in Cardiff

The trade off with an online supplier is that you get rigid, pre built units at trade style prices and you carry the responsibility for the order being right. In a Cardiff terrace that responsibility is heavier than it looks, because the walls are solid brick with no cavity, the floor falls away towards the back door and the room narrows by the time it reaches the return. A survey before you place the order is the cheapest hour of the whole project. We measure properly, look at where the waste, the gas and the sockets actually sit, and tell you what to change on the plan while changing it is still free.

Delivery is the second thing worth planning. DIY Kitchens arrive in one large drop rather than trickling in over a fortnight, and very few houses in Roath, Splott or Adamsdown have a garage to put it in. In practice the front room becomes storage for a few days and you lose that room, so we would rather time the delivery close to the fitting week than have it sitting there for a month. Keep the boxes off a cold floor and flat rather than leaning, because chipboard carcasses swell if they are left somewhere damp and nothing you do afterwards will straighten them out. On the streets around Cathays and Roath that fall under a residents parking scheme, tell us the delivery date at survey so we can plan where the lorry stops and how the boxes get in.

Once the units are in the house the fit moves quickly, and that is the real advantage of buying rigid. There is no evening of assembly and no wobbly carcass to square up, so the work goes straight to levelling the run, scribing to the wall and getting the worktop line true. We check the delivery against your order early in the week, because replacements are handled between DIY Kitchens and you as the account holder and a missing end panel found on day one is an inconvenience rather than a lost day. Laminate and solid timber worktops we cut and join on site, stone is templated once the bases are level and fitted by the stone supplier. Gas work is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer and electrical work by a qualified electrician, both coordinated by us, and the whole job comes with a fixed written quote, 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.