Kitchen Renovation Hounslow

GS Renovation designs and builds kitchens across Hounslow, in its flats, Victorian terraces and interwar semis, from the town centre and Lampton to Heston and Hounslow West. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, services and any structural work as one continuous project.

In Hounslow, a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Hounslow: we carry the strip-out, services and fit as one contract, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

How the job runs

1. Free design visit at your Hounslow home and an itemised quote.
2. Strip-out and any structural work, first-fix plumbing and electrics, plastering.
3. Units fitted and levelled; stone worktops templated and cut off site.
4. Worktops, appliances, tiling and second fix. Electrics certified under Part P by a registered electrician, or notified to building control. Typically 3 to 5 weeks on site.

Open-plan kitchen-diners in Hounslow terraces

In a Hounslow terrace or semi, a common kitchen project opens the rear of the house, knocking the kitchen through to the dining room or out into the side return to create a bright kitchen-diner. Because that dividing wall almost always carries load, we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control, keeping the structure sound above the opening.

We fit quality units, quartz, granite or composite worktops, integrated appliances and considered task and mood lighting, all planned around the solid-wall construction and the tight rear footprint typical of the borough's terraces. The plumbing and tiling are handled by our own team, new circuits are certified by a registered electrician under Part P, and where the wall we open is a shared party wall you serve the correct notice to your neighbour first.

Housing in Hounslow

The stock in Hounslow runs to roughly 111,270 dwellings, 50% of them flats and 50% houses, built 16% before 1919, 28% between 1919 and 1939 and 55% after 1945. A mid-terrace kitchen in Hounslow has to vent out the front or back, not the side, and 26% of homes here are terraced.

Taking a Hounslow kitchen into a converted garage

Where a Hounslow semi has a garage attached, turning it into the kitchen frees the old kitchen for dining and can avoid an extension altogether. Hounslow names converting a garage to a room as one of the smaller jobs usually done on a building notice. Semis and detached houses make up 23% of the borough's homes, and in one with a garage this layout is worth testing before paying for new foundations. The garage floor, walls and door opening all need work before a single unit is fitted, and that work sets the kitchen's finished levels.

The order matters. A garage slab often sits lower than the house floor and has no insulation, so it is raised and insulated first, with a damp-proof membrane linked to the house. The door opening is filled with an insulated wall on a proper footing, and the structural engineer we appoint checks whether the lintel over the old door is doing structural work. Only then are the waste runs for the sink and dishwasher set, with enough fall to reach the existing drain. Design the kitchen to the finished floor level, not the garage one.

Bespoke kitchens for Hounslow period homes

Hounslow's older houses come with alcoves, chimney breasts and, in the Victorian ones, generous ceiling heights that suit made-to-measure cabinetry far better than off-the-shelf units. We plan the layout around these quirks, using the alcoves either side of a chimney breast for tall storage and shaping the run so it works with the natural light coming into the rear of the house.

From handleless contemporary designs to classic in-frame Shaker kitchens, we build to suit the age and character of your Hounslow home. We coordinate the appliance integration, the plumbing moves, the notifiable electrical work (certified by a registered electrician) and the tiling and lighting, so the finished kitchen looks considered and performs properly, with every trade managed by one team from survey to completion.

Heights, clearances and how you move

Standard kitchen dimensions suit an average person and most people are not average. Worktop height can be set to whoever does the cooking, which makes a real difference to your back over the years. A wall oven at chest height saves bending with a heavy tray. Drawers hold more usefully than deep base cupboards and let you see what is at the back of them.

Clearances matter more in a busy kitchen than any of the finishes. Around a metre between opposite runs lets two people pass, and less than that turns an island into an obstacle as soon as the dishwasher door is down. Appliance doors, the bin and the route from hob to sink are worked out on the drawing before anything is ordered. In Hounslow's older houses and flats the rooms are rarely square, so we survey the real walls rather than working from an original plan.

Living without a kitchen for weeks

The part of a kitchen project nobody plans for is the middle of it. Between strip out and the worktop going down, the room is a building site and you are washing up in the bathroom. In a Hounslow terrace where the kitchen sits at the back of the house, we set up a temporary run somewhere sensible, usually the dining room or a corner of the hall, with the fridge, the microwave and the kettle on a board and a proper plug run to them.

Two things make the gap bearable. Keep the old sink live for as long as the pipework allows, which is often right up to the day the units come out, and get the rest capped early so the bathroom is never affected. Most families find it easier to shop smaller and eat out more while it is going on. We give you the dates for the noisy, waterless and dusty stages in advance so you can plan around them.

• New circuits, sockets and dedicated appliance supplies
• Island units and bespoke cabinetry
• Waste and water runs moved, and gas by a Gas Safe registered engineer, before the units are set

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 29 statistical areas in Hounslow. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Plenty of Hounslow projects start with one job and grow, so it helps to see load-bearing wall removal in Hounslow, our Hounslow area guide, kitchen fitting in London, when a kitchen needs a building contractor, how we handle kitchen renovation across London and Open-Plan Kitchen-Diner Ideas.

Why Choose GS Renovation in Hounslow

Hounslow homeowners choose GS Renovation because one accountable team handles the entire kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish. You get honest pricing, tidy working in an occupied home and a kitchen built to last, planned around the period proportions of the borough's terraces and backed by our founder's 30+ years on the tools.

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254). Structural design is by the consulting engineer appointed to your project.