Howdens Installation for Bridgend Homes

On Brackla, Broadlands and Parc Derwen the rooms are square and the floors are level, which speeds a Howdens fit up noticeably. The catch is what the plaster is sitting on. Dot and dab board or timber stud will not hold a loaded run of wall units on its own, so fixings have to reach the blockwork or land in a noggin, and we check what is actually behind the plaster at the survey rather than finding out with a cabinet full of crockery. The older stone properties around Newcastle Hill, Laleston and Coychurch are the reverse, solid walls with no cavity, so fixings go into stone rather than block, services are chased or neatly boxed instead of hidden in a void, and any new extractor duct needs proper coring. None of that is a problem, it just has to be allowed for in the time and the price.

The trade only side of Howdens works in your favour on a Bridgend job because it puts the plan check before the order. We survey the room, look at what is behind the existing units and compare the supplier plan against the real space, then place the order through our account once you have approved the layout and the cost. Rigid carcasses arrive already built, which means less time on site and a stronger unit, but a tall larder or an appliance housing has to travel the hallway in one piece. In a Wildmill house with a concrete ground floor there is a further constraint, because waste and supply pipes run in boxing or along the wall rather than under the floor, so sink and appliance positions are decided by what the pipework can reach.

Porthcawl adds the coastal factor, where humidity and salt in the air make a genuinely ducted extractor and a well sealed worktop upstand matter more than they look on a plan. Worktop choice affects the programme as well as the look. Laminate is ordered with the kitchen and cut, jointed and fitted during the same visit, while stone and quartz are templated once the base units are in and fitted later by the stone supplier, which typically adds a week or two to the overall job. We cover CF31, CF32, CF33, CF35 and CF36, roughly forty minutes from our base, with a fixed written quote after the survey, gas by a Gas Safe registered engineer and electrics by a qualified electrician.

What is included

• Full Howdens range experience
• Trade depot coordination
• Precision unit fitting
• Integrated appliance setup

Fitting Howdens kitchens

Howdens sell trade only, so the account and the depot relationship sit with the fitter rather than the homeowner. That makes the depot coordination part of the job, from checking the plan and lead times to arranging the delivery slot and sorting any replacement parts. Howdens units come rigid and their ranges change, so we work from the current catalogue rather than assumptions.