A Howdens Kitchen Fitted in Llantrisant, Hilltop or Below

Rigid units are the reason the old town needs planning rather than optimism. Howdens carcasses arrive already built, which is a real advantage in a small cottage kitchen because there is no assembly stage taking up the only floor space you have, but it also means each unit travels the lane and the doorway in one piece. Low openings, tight turns and steps are the practical limit up there, so we walk the access at the survey, agree the drop point with you and book the Howdens delivery slot around it before anything is ordered. Where the lorry cannot get close, the kitchen is dropped at the nearest workable point and carried, and that carrying time is priced in rather than added later.

Inside a cottage almost nothing is square. Thick stone walls, low ceilings, small openings and floors that have settled over two centuries mean units are levelled and scribed one at a time, plinths follow the floor rather than a straight line, and end panels are scribed into the wall. If you have chosen a Howdens in frame range that setting out becomes the entire job, because the visible margin around each door only stays even if the carcass under it is dead level and square. Anything passing through an external wall, an extractor duct above all, needs proper coring with a sleeved duct and a decent grille rather than a quick hole. Conservation area controls are aimed at the outside of a building rather than the kitchen inside it, so if your property is listed or you want an external change, check with Rhondda Cynon Taf planning before ordering and we will work to whatever is agreed.

Down the hill the job is far more predictable. Talbot Green, Beddau and Pontyclun are mostly post war and modern estate housing with regular rooms, level floors and plasterboard walls, so the fit moves quickly once the fixings are landed in the blockwork or a noggin behind the board. The usual constraint there is size, because many of those kitchens are narrow galleys with the boiler, the back door and the window competing for one short run, and the gain comes from a better layout and taller storage rather than more floor area. We are around half an hour away via the A470 and the A473, we work Monday to Friday from eight until six with Saturdays by appointment, and every job gets a fixed written price after a survey.

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.