IKEA Kitchens for Treforest Lets and Family Homes

The programme matters as much as the kitchen on a let. Student tenancies around the campus mostly turn over across the summer, and an IKEA fit carries a genuine assembly stage on top of the fitting, since every carcass arrives flat and is built on site. That means the delivery has to land inside the same window, not just the fitting week, so we work backwards from your changeover date and tell you when the order needs to be placed. Give us the dates early, because that window fills up across the whole area.

Structurally, most of these houses are the classic valley terrace: a narrow back kitchen, a chimney breast eating into the run and floors that fall away towards the rear. Plenty have a single skin rear extension that is the coldest and dampest part of the property, and hanging a METOD rail on a wall like that without dealing with what is behind it just buries the problem inside new carcasses. Once the old units come off you can finally see the state of the wall, and that is the point to sort damp, rot or insulation rather than after. Where the wall is sound, the rail goes in dead level with resin anchors or frame fixings into the stone, not the plugs supplied in the box, and base units are levelled individually on their legs so the worktop runs flat over a sloping floor.

Specification for a rental is a separate conversation from specification for a family home, and we will have it with you honestly. Solid doors rather than thin fronts, a hard wearing laminate worktop that can be replaced cheaply if a tenant damages it, hinges that survive being slammed and an extractor that genuinely vents outside so the room does not sit damp. Repeat the same spec across a portfolio and spare doors, handles and worktop offcuts from one house cover repairs in the next. We are fit only, so you buy from IKEA at whatever price you can get, and we coordinate a Gas Safe registered engineer and a qualified electrician, strip out and remove the old kitchen and work to a fixed written quote after a 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.