Mountain Ash Howdens Kitchen Fitting, Run From Woodland Street

The bulk of the town is colliery terrace built up the valley sides in Pennant stone, and streets like the rows above Oxford Street climb hard enough that the front door and the back door can be a full storey apart. That gives you solid walls with no cavity, small rear kitchens and doorways that will not take a fridge freezer without the door coming off. Rigid Howdens carcasses arrive already built, which is exactly what you want in a small room, but it means every unit travels the route in one piece. We know most of these streets well enough to tell you at the survey where a delivery lorry will realistically stop and how the units get from there into the house, which beats finding out on delivery morning.

The rear lane behind most rows is often the only sensible way in, and because we book the Howdens delivery slot ourselves we can plan the day around that rather than the other way round. Penrhiwceiber and Perthcelyn add post war and later council built stock where the walls are block and the rooms are more regular, and there are pockets of newer housing around Abercynon and Ynysboeth that behave like any modern build. Knowing which of those you are standing in changes the fixings, the delivery plan and the order the trades come in, and after years of working these streets we are not guessing at it.

The other advantage of being local is what happens afterwards. If a Howdens part is faulty or short, we raise it with the depot as the account holder rather than sending you to do it, and for anything urgent in town we can usually be back the same day or the next. We work Monday to Friday, eight until six, with Saturdays by appointment, and we will agree a start time rather than turning up at half seven. There is no charge for coming out to measure and quote, the price is fixed in writing after that survey, and the workmanship is guaranteed with public liability insurance behind it.

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.