From Treherbert to Llanharan, DIY Kitchens Fitted Across Rhondda Cynon Taf

In the northern valleys the stock is overwhelmingly Victorian and Edwardian terrace in Pennant sandstone, stepped along steep hillsides with rear lanes and small back kitchens. Solid walls need resin or frame fixings rather than the plugs in the box, floors fall away, and almost nothing is square, so the order needs fillers and scribe panels that an online planner will not have included. South of the ridge around Llantrisant, Talbot Green, Pontyclun and Llanharan the problem reverses. The rooms are square and the floors are flat, but the walls are timber stud or dot and dab plasterboard and every wall cabinet has to be fixed back to the block or a noggin behind.

Delivery is the other thing that varies across the county borough. Everything comes in one large drop of pre built units, so the practical question is where a lorry can stop and how the boxes get from there into the house. Some of the Rhondda Fawr terraces above Treorchy and Treherbert are tighter for a delivery vehicle than the equivalent rows in the Cynon, while a Llanharan estate house usually has a drive and a garage. Where there is a rear lane it is normally the better route in, and where there is a garage the order can land comfortably ahead of the fitting week as long as it is dry. Chipboard carcasses do not survive a damp outbuilding.

Because we are fit only, the order stays in your name and you keep the trade style price you bought at, which is the whole point of using an online supplier. Our part is checking the plan before you commit, telling you exactly what to add or drop, and then installing it properly once it arrives. Every property gets its own survey and its own fixed written quote, coordinated Gas Safe and electrical work where the job needs it, a workmanship guarantee and public liability insurance. Travel is not a separate charge anywhere in the county borough.

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.