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Kitchen Installation: Every Trade, in the Right Order

A new kitchen is a building project. Walls come down, floors come up, and electrics and plumbing move. Most kitchen suppliers hand you a list of trades to find yourself; we employ them. Every kitchen installation we carry out is run by one project manager, to a written programme, with our own fitters and trades on site. Typical installations take two to four weeks.

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10 years

Installation guarantee on every kitchen

£5m

Public liability insurance

NAPIT

Registered Electricians

Essex, since 2012

Established company, local teams

Before we start

Kitchen plans being reviewed beside a painted door sample

You receive a written schedule before work begins, so you know what happens when. The quotation is fixed and itemized, and every trade on it is scheduled by your project manager. You never have to find, brief or pay a separate tradesperson.

On site

What happens on site, stage by stage

Floor tiles being laid across the room before the kitchen cabinets go in

The order matters. Doing things in the right sequence is what stops a finished floor being cut up or a new wall being chased out for a cable.

01Strip-out. Careful removal of the existing kitchen, appliances, flooring and tiles, with licensed waste disposal.
02Structural work. Where the design needs it, walls are removed, openings formed and steels installed, with engineer calculations and building control sign-off. On our Brentwood project, the steel went in over two days before any kitchen work started.
03Services. New circuits, sockets, lighting, appliance connections and consumer unit upgrades by NAPIT Registered Electricians. Water, waste and gas are relocated to suit the design. For an island, services can run under the new floor so no channels are cut later.
04Plastering. Walls and ceilings made good, boarded and skimmed ready for decoration.
05Flooring. Porcelain tiles, engineered wood or LVT, laid before the cabinets so the floor runs under everything.
06Cabinets. Kitchen fitting proper: units fitted, levelled and scribed to the room by our own time-served kitchen fitters.
07Worktops. Laser templated once the cabinets are in, then installed by our worktop team. Compare materials on our kitchen worktops page.
08Appliances. Supplied, installed and commissioned, with warranties registered on your behalf. See our kitchen appliances guide.
09Decorating. Walls, ceilings and woodwork prepared and painted.
10Snagging and handover. A final inspection with you, adjustments made, the room cleaned and your guarantee issued.

Our Brentwood handleless kitchen, which included removing a load-bearing wall, a full rewire and a new porcelain floor, took three weeks on site from start to finish.

Your home

Protecting your home

Kitchen installation team in a finished kitchen

We treat your home the way we would want ours treated. One project manager keeps you informed with daily updates, and the site is left tidy every evening. On our CM15 project, where both owners worked full time, keys were held securely and the daily updates came by WhatsApp.

Paperwork

Building control, certificates and guarantees

Electrician wiring new kitchen circuits during first fix

Your guarantee and appliance registrations are handed over in writing, and the work is covered by:

What	Covers
Building control sign-off	Structural alterations such as removing walls and installing steels
NAPIT certification	New circuits, sockets, lighting and consumer unit upgrades
Appliance registrations	Warranties registered on your behalf
Ten-year installation guarantee	The whole project, including the trades

We are fully insured with £5m public liability cover, and we come back after a month to check and adjust.

During the work

Living without a kitchen for a few weeks

Worktop team fitting a quartz worktop onto new cabinets

For two to four weeks, the kitchen is a building site. A little planning makes it much easier:

01Set up a temporary kitchen in another room with a kettle, a microwave, a toaster and a fridge if you have a spare
02Keep a box of plates, cutlery and mugs you can wash in a bathroom basin
03Plan simple meals for the first week, when the room is stripped out and the services are being moved
04Ask your project manager which days water or power will be off, using your written programme

Our work

One recent project, start to finish

A family home in Brentwood: a load-bearing wall removed, a new quartz island and a full rewire, completed in three weeks on site by our own team. See the full project.

Handleless kitchen

Brentwood

White matt handleless, quartz island, structural opening to dining room

Handleless

★★★★★

"Everything was handled by Essex Home. The electrician, the plasterer and the tiler all turned up when we were told they would, and Dan managed it all. We never had to chase anyone."

Sarah & Mark T.

Handleless kitchen, Brentwood

Questions

Kitchen installation FAQs

How long does it take to fit a kitchen?

Typical installations take two to four weeks, and your written programme shows the plan for your project before work starts.

How much does kitchen installation cost?

Our quotation covers the complete project. Complete kitchen projects with Essex Home typically range from £18,000 to £50,000 and above, and every trade is itemized in your quotation.

Do you take away the old kitchen?

Yes. Strip-out and removal of the existing kitchen, appliances, flooring and tiles is part of the job, with licensed waste disposal.

Can you install appliances I have already bought?

Yes. We supply and fit Neff, Siemens, Bosch, Miele and Fisher & Paykel, and we will happily install something you have already chosen.

Next steps

The rest of the service

Before we buildKitchen designA home visit, a 3D design and a fixed quotation.Six stepsHow it worksFrom first call to handover.Recent workOur projectsKitchens we have designed and installed.

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