GS Renovation fits kitchens in Borehamwood, handling cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, notified electrics, tiling and any structural opening as one coordinated job. Where a wall comes out to make a kitchen diner, we appoint the structural engineer and coordinate the building control inspections. Founder Abdelaaziz Saaid has over 30 years of hands on experience.
Kitchens in Borehamwood's purpose built flats
The 2021 Census recorded 4,484 households in purpose built blocks of flats across the four Borehamwood wards. A kitchen in a flat is a different job from a kitchen in a house. Waste runs are fixed by where the block's soil stack sits, the lease will have something to say about altering partitions, and materials come up a communal stair rather than through a front door you control.
So the planning happens before the units are chosen. We check where the stack and the existing waste connections are, agree delivery and waste removal with whoever manages the block, and work out whether a pumped waste is needed to reach the stack. Kitchen circuits are notifiable work, installed and certified to current standards by a registered electrician we appoint.
Owner occupied houses and what a kitchen project can include
The 2021 Census recorded 7,262 owner occupied households across the four Borehamwood wards, made up of 2,927 owned outright and 4,335 owned with a mortgage or loan. Owning the house means a kitchen project can take in the structure as well as the units, and that is what turns a shut off galley kitchen into a room the whole family can stand in.
Where that involves removing a wall carrying load, the structural engineer we appoint sizes the beam and the work is inspected under the Building Regulations. We run the steel, the first fix services, the plastering and the fit out on one programme, so trades do not arrive in the wrong order and stand about. One point of contact holds the whole sequence together.
Undersized garages next to the kitchen
Hertsmere names the streets. Shakespeare Drive, Wordsworth Gardens and Coleridge Way, on the former Fire Research Station and Furzehill School sites, are named in Hertsmere's guidance as places where garages are smaller than current standards allow. A garage attached to the house and too narrow to park in is floor area sitting directly alongside your kitchen.
Converting it can give a utility, a pantry or the run of worktop the original kitchen never had. It is a building fabric job as much as a joinery one: insulating the floor and walls, dealing with the old garage door opening and getting the damp proofing right at the threshold. We treat it as part of the kitchen programme rather than a separate project bolted on afterwards.
- Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
- Pantry, larder and utility room integration
- Bespoke kitchen design and 3D layout planning
- Handleless, shaker and in-frame door styles fitted
- Island units and bespoke cabinetry
Why Choose GS Renovation in Borehamwood
A kitchen touches structure, drainage, electrics and joinery, and the usual failure is trades arriving in the wrong order. We run all of it under one point of contact, with the structural engineer appointed by us wherever a wall comes out. Fully insured, free no obligation quotations, and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder.
- Our own trades on site rather than a chain of subcontractors
- Registered in England, Companies House no. 14611254
- Straight advice on what is and is not worth spending money on
- Paperwork and certificates handed over for when you sell
- Appliance and extraction routes agreed at design stage
- A temporary sink arranged where the kitchen is out for weeks