DIY Kitchens in Penarth, Measured Before You Order

In the big Penarth houses the fitting itself is rarely the hard part. Getting a full order of pre built carcasses down a narrow lower ground stair, or in through a rear door and along a hallway with deep skirtings and a tight turn, is what shapes the day. Rigid units are stronger than flat pack and they save an evening of assembly, but they arrive as bulky boxes rather than slim panels, and a tall larder or a fridge housing is the piece that catches people out. We walk the access route at the survey, measure the openings and tell you before you order whether a particular unit will physically make the turn.

Storage between delivery and fitting is the other Penarth split. The villas usually have a garage, a cellar or a spare room that can take a whole kitchen, so a delivery a week or two ahead is comfortable. Down in Cogan the terraces have neither, and a full DIY Kitchens order takes up more floor than people expect, so we time the drop tight to the fitting week and warn you that a room is out of use in the meantime. Wherever it goes it needs to be dry. Chipboard carcasses left in a damp garage or an outbuilding swell along the edges and no amount of careful fitting hides it afterwards.

Conservation area status covers what your house looks like from the outside, not which supplier you order the kitchen from, so an internal DIY Kitchens installation is unaffected. What can be affected is a new extractor vent or grille through a front or side elevation, and some Penarth properties also carry an Article 4 direction, so we plan venting to a discreet rear elevation wherever possible and tell you to check with Vale of Glamorgan planning before anything external is cut. Old iron waste runs and undersized pipework are common in the villas and get dealt with by a qualified plumber as part of the job, with any gas work carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer. You get a fixed written price after the survey and a workmanship guarantee on the fit.

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.