Wickes Kitchen Fitting in Cardiff, Sequenced Around Split Deliveries

Sequencing is the real work on a Wickes fit. Send us the delivery confirmations as they come through and we will tell you which stage each one unlocks, so we are not stripping out a kitchen on the Monday for a worktop that lands the following Thursday. In the bay fronted terraces through Roath, Cathays, Canton and Grangetown there is rarely a garage or a spare room, so the units normally end up stacked in the front room for a few days and you lose that room for the duration. We would rather time the drop for a day or two before we start than have you living around cartons for a fortnight, and where the street falls under a residents parking scheme we plan the unloading for each vehicle instead of hoping for a space on the morning.

The plan itself is the other thing worth catching early. Wickes designs are frequently drawn from measurements the customer has taken, and a Cardiff rear return with a chimney breast in one wall, a back door in the worst corner and a room that narrows by 40mm at one end will find any error in them. We check the drawing against the actual walls at the survey and tell you what needs changing before the order is confirmed, which costs a lot less than discovering it on fitting day. If you are keeping your existing fridge freezer, oven or washing machine, we measure those at the same visit, because older appliances are often a slightly different width or height to a modern housing.

Everything else runs the way it should. The old kitchen comes out and goes away responsibly rather than sitting in your yard, laminate worktops are cut and joined here in the house so the seam sits tight and the cut edges are sealed, and stone or solid surface is templated once the base units are level and fitted later by the supplier. A boiler in a Cardiff kitchen is normally boxed in or housed inside a wall unit, and moving one is a separate Gas Safe job we can arrange rather than something we work around badly. Gas connections are carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer and any new sockets, lighting or an electric hob by a qualified electrician, both coordinated by us. Most installations run five to ten working days, we work Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm with Saturdays by appointment, and you get a fixed written price after the home survey.

What is included

• All Wickes ranges covered
• Old kitchen removal
• Plumbing coordination
• Electrics management

Fitting Wickes kitchens

Wickes kitchens are a common choice for customers managing the project themselves, which usually means the units, worktops and appliances arrive on different dates from different places. Sequencing is the main job here, making sure the right things are on site at the right stage so the fit does not stall halfway through waiting on a worktop.