Gloss, Painted and In Frame: Magnet Kitchens Fitted in Llantrisant

In the old town almost nothing is square and very little is a standard size. The walls are thick stone, the ceilings are low, the openings are small and the floors have settled over two centuries, so Magnet units go in one at a time, levelled on their legs off a datum, packed off the stone where the wall bows and closed out with scribed fillers and end panels rather than pushed back and hoped for. A painted shaker or in frame range sits far better against that kind of building than a high gloss run does, and it also happens to be the least forgiving thing to fit, because every gap around every door is visible. Anything passing through an external wall, an extractor duct above all, gets a properly cored and sleeved hole rather than a quick one.

Getting the kitchen up there is the other half of it. The lanes around the Bull Ring, High Street, Swan Street and Yr Allt are narrow, steep and in places no good for a delivery vehicle, so a full Magnet order usually gets dropped at the nearest accessible point and carried in by hand. We walk that access at the survey and agree the drop point with you before the delivery is booked. Painted doors travel that route boxed and stay boxed until the carcasses and the worktop are in, because a chipped edge on a painted door is a permanent reminder of a five minute shortcut.

Down the hill it is a different and far more predictable job. Talbot Green, Beddau, Cross Inn and Pontyclun are mostly post-war and modern estate housing with regular rooms, level floors and plasterboard walls, which makes the fit quicker, though wall units and tall larders still have to be fixed back to the blockwork or a noggin rather than into the board. The constraint there is size, because a lot of those kitchens are narrow galleys where the boiler, the back door and the window all compete for one short run, so the gain usually comes from a better layout and taller Magnet storage rather than from more floor area. As a rough guide a straightforward swap down the hill sits around five to seven working days, while an old town cottage with awkward access and scribing throughout can run to ten or more.

What is included

• All Magnet ranges covered
• Bespoke fitting solutions
• Plumbing coordination
• Electrics management

Fitting Magnet kitchens

Magnet cover a wide spread from budget ranges up to premium painted and in-frame kitchens, so the fitting standard has to match what you have paid for. Gloss doors show every misalignment and every fingerprint, and painted shaker doors chip if they are handled carelessly, so protection and careful setting out matter throughout the job.