IKEA Kitchen Installation Across Caerphilly and the Aber Valley

A concrete floor is actually kind to METOD, because base units sit on adjustable legs and get levelled individually rather than relying on a flat slab. What the concrete does dictate is the services. Waste and supply pipes cannot drop between joists, so a sink or an appliance move runs along the wall, through the plinth void or gets chased, and each of those has a different cost and a different look. That is a survey conversation, not a fitting day conversation, because it changes which cabinets you need and where the rail runs.

The rail itself is the heart of a METOD kitchen. It has to be fixed dead level into something solid, and the plugs supplied in the box assume modern blockwork or plasterboard. Older Caerphilly stock nearer the castle and along Cardiff Road is solid walled and wants resin anchors or long frame fixings, the estate houses are usually block and take a straightforward fixing, and the newer developments on the edge of town are dot and dab plasterboard where the fixing must reach the block behind. We check what is behind the plaster before drilling rather than assuming from the age of the house.

Then there is the assembly. Every IKEA carcass arrives flat and is built on site, which is a genuine stage of the work and the main reason an IKEA fit runs slightly longer than a rigid one, though most still land inside five to ten working days. Estate houses usually have a garage or a spare room for that, which makes life easier than in a terrace. Before we start we check the order against the room, because planner designs regularly miss fillers, cover panels and legs, and a boiler or a badly placed back door usually means cutting a carcass down or closing a gap that was not on the drawing. We are fit only, so you buy from IKEA and we install it, with a Gas Safe registered engineer and a qualified electrician coordinated by us and a fixed written price after the home survey.

What is included

• METOD system specialists
• Flat-pack assembly experts
• Custom modifications
• Worktop cutting and fitting

Fitting IKEA kitchens

METOD is a suspension rail system, so the whole kitchen hangs off a rail that has to be fixed dead level into something solid. In the stone walled terraces common across the Cynon and Taff valleys that means proper fixings rather than the plasterboard plugs supplied in the box. There is also a genuine assembly stage with IKEA, since every carcass arrives flat and has to be built before it can be hung.