Treforest Landlords, Wickes Kitchens Fitted to Your Changeover

The practical window is between the old tenants leaving and the new ones arriving, and across the streets off Park Street, Wood Road and Forest Road that window is the same few weeks for everybody. Give us the dates early, because the fitting diary fills up and your delivery has to fall inside the same period. On a split Wickes order that means the units need to land at the start of the window rather than the end, with the worktop and appliances following, and if you are having a stone top the template gap of a week or two has to fit inside the changeover too, which for most rentals is the argument for laminate. Laminate is cut, jointed and fitted in the same visit as the units, which keeps the whole job in one run of days.

Specification for a let is about durability rather than looks. Solid doors rather than thin foil wrapped fronts, a hard wearing laminate worktop that can be replaced cheaply if it gets damaged, soft close hinges that survive being slammed, and an extractor that actually vents outside so the room does not sit damp. Cutting the spec on hinges and worktop is the false economy landlords regret two tenancies later. If you own several properties, repeating the same range across them means spare doors, handles and worktop offcuts from one cover repairs in the next, and each fit is quicker because we already know the specification.

Most of Treforest is late Victorian valley terrace built up a hillside, with a narrow back kitchen, a chimney breast eating into the run and floors that fall away towards the rear, so a plan drawn from measurements taken in a hurry between tenancies is worth checking before the order is placed. Rear outshuts and later single skin extensions are common and are usually the coldest and dampest part of the house, and once the old units come off you can finally see what is behind them. It is far better to deal with damp, insulation or rot at that point than to hang new units over it. Stripping out and responsibly disposing of the old units, worktops and appliances is part of the service, which matters here because there is rarely anywhere to stack old carcasses on a terraced street.

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.