Kitchens & Bathrooms · Highworth · Swindon · Cotswolds
Full kitchen and bathroom fit-outs from a family team that's been on the tools since 1988. Units, worktops, tiling, first- and second-fix plumbing coordination and finishing, handled start to finish so you have one point of contact from strip-out to sign-off.
40 years in the trade · Family-run · Free site visits · Written estimate in 3–5 working days
Overview
A kitchen or bathroom fit-out is the room in the house where sloppy work shows up daily. Doors that don't line up, tiles that fall out of course at the corners, a worktop mitre that opens up after a winter, a bath that flexes when you sit in it: they wear on you every time you use the room. We fit kitchens and bathrooms the same way we build walls: measure carefully, set out properly, get the boring things right first, and finish the visible work last.
Strip-out of the existing room, wall and floor preparation, first-fix carpentry and plastering as needed, tiling to floors and walls, supply and installation of kitchen units, worktops (laminate, solid wood and stone-effect), splashbacks, sinks and taps, bathroom suites (bath, shower enclosure, WC, basin), extractor fans, LVT and tile flooring, and full finishing including skirtings, painting and silicone. Gas and electrical connections are coordinated with our trusted local subcontractors.
Homeowners refitting a tired kitchen or bathroom in an existing home. Extension clients where the new kitchen or bathroom is part of a wider build we're already doing. Landlords needing a durable, well-fitted rental refresh. Buyers of a recent purchase who want the fit-out done before they move furniture in.
Units are falling off hinges, worktops are lifting at the mitre, tiles are hollow or cracked, the shower tray flexes, the bath is scored beyond cleaning, or the layout no longer works for the household. Also when you're extending and the new room needs designing in from the studs, not bolted on at the end.
Kitchens and bathrooms punish shortcuts. Water and daily use find every corner that wasn't sealed properly. The difference between a five-year fit and a twenty-year fit is almost entirely in preparation: level floors, plumb walls, correct substrate for tiling, silicone bead in the right sequence, and units hung level to a set-out line rather than the skirting.
The cost of getting it wrong
The failures we're most often called back to fix follow the same pattern: cosmetic finish laid over structural short-cuts.
Tiles laid on painted plasterboard, uneven screed or unbonded backer board debond, crack at grout lines and eventually pop. Once one goes, the rest follow.
A laminate or wood mitre that isn't dry-fitted, bolted and glued properly opens up with humidity. Water then gets into the chipboard core and the whole run has to come out.
Silicone applied over dirty, wet or wrong-order surfaces peels and blackens quickly. Water tracks behind the bath or shower tray, then into the floor.
Wall units set from an out-of-level floor look wrong the moment the doors close. Cheap fits skip the laser line: expensive ones don't.
Common mistake, The single biggest mistake we get called in to unpick: kitchens and bathrooms fitted without the trades sequenced properly. Plumbing done after tiling. Electrics chased in after the units are hung. Tiling before the walls are flat. Getting the order right on paper saves days on site and thousands in redo.
Our process
The same honest four-step system we use on every job, sequenced for the trades a fit-out needs.
Tell us what you're planning, whether you've bought units yet, and roughly when you'd like the work done. We answer enquiries within one working day.
Dale walks the room, measures up, checks the substrate, and talks through unit choices, tile choices, and any structural work (moving a wall, taking out a chimney breast) that changes the brief.
Itemised estimate: strip-out, prep, first-fix trades, units, worktops, tiling, second-fix, finishing. You can see where the money goes.
Booked in, delivered clean each day, staged payments as the room progresses. On completion we walk the finished room with you, test every tap, drawer and door, and don't leave until you're happy.
The benefits
Dale is on site and on the phone. No project manager passing you between subcontractors.
Strip-out, first-fix, plaster, tile, units, worktop, second-fix, silicone: in the right order, so nothing gets pulled up to redo.
Wall units and worktops set from a laser line so doors, drawers and gaps read straight across the run.
Tile backer, floor flatness and wall plumb sorted before a single tile or unit goes on. Boring, and the reason it lasts.
We schedule Gas Safe and NICEIC-registered subcontractors around our own works so the room is finished on one programme, not in fits and starts.
Waste removed, silicone finished cleanly, taps and doors tested, care instructions left with you.
In detail
The practical detail behind a fit-out that still looks right in ten years.
Shaker, slab and in-frame doors from mainstream and trade suppliers. Base and wall units hung to a set-out line, plinths scribed to uneven floors, cornice and pelmet mitred cleanly. Worktops in laminate, solid oak and stone-effect compact laminate, with mitres bolted and glued, cut-outs sealed, and upstands bedded in colour-matched silicone.
Full suites installed: baths cradled on proper timber battens with feet loaded correctly, shower trays bedded on mortar (not silicone dabs), enclosures fitted plumb and square, WCs bolted to floor rather than sat on it, basin waste and traps aligned so panels sit flat.
Wall tiling on tanking or tile backer in wet areas, matrix tile adhesive appropriate to substrate and tile size, joints kept true across corners and around openings. Floor tiling on prepared and primed screed, decoupling matting in awkward areas, grout colours chosen to sit with the tile rather than fight it. Silicone applied last, in the right order.
Tanking to walls in showers and around baths, upstand detail so tiles sit over the tray edge, silicone joints kept off horizontal surfaces where possible, and extractor fans ducted properly to outside, not just to the loft.
Our fit-outs are residential: family homes, extensions, refurb-before-move-in. We take on landlord and single-let refits routinely. We don't chase multi-unit commercial fit-outs: that would take us off the tools.
Recent works
Where we work
A straightforward like-for-like kitchen refit is typically 2–3 weeks. Reconfigured layouts, knock-throughs or extensions that include the new kitchen run longer, and we'll give you a realistic programme at the estimate stage.
A standard family bathroom refit is usually 7–10 working days from strip-out to silicone. En-suites are often quicker; wet rooms with tanking and screeded floors take longer.
Either. Some clients buy their kitchen or bathroom directly and we fit; others ask us to source from a trusted local supplier. We'll price both ways and be honest about the trade-offs.
No. Gas and electrical connections are handled by trusted Gas Safe and NICEIC-registered subcontractors we've worked with for years. We schedule and coordinate them so the room finishes on one programme.
Yes. Structural alterations, RSJs and knock-throughs are part of our general building work: often the whole point of a kitchen or bathroom refit is opening the room up. We handle the structural side and the fit-out on one estimate.
We tile as part of the fit. Wall and floor tiling, tanking to wet areas, natural stone and large-format porcelain all part of the standard scope.
Yes: £5,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability. Documents on request before we start.
Yes: Highworth, Swindon, Lechlade, Fairford, Cirencester, Faringdon, Witney, Burford and Shrivenham are all part of our normal patch.
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Free site visit at a time that suits. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.
