Kitchen Renovation New Malden

GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens throughout New Malden, where the interwar semis of KT3 typically hide a small galley kitchen tucked at the back of the house. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, services and any structural knock-through as a single, coordinated project.

In New Malden, 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 New Malden: 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 New Malden 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 New Malden semis

A common kitchen project in New Malden opens the rear of a 1930s semi by removing the wall between the kitchen and the back reception, creating a bright kitchen-diner that looks onto the garden. That dividing wall is load-bearing, so we fit a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by Kingston Council building control, then plan the new layout around the wider space.

With the wall gone, we set out the run of units, the island or peninsula, and the services so everything flows. On these KT3 semis we often take the opportunity to move the sink and cooking to the garden side and bring in more natural light, integrating the appliances, plumbing, electrics and extraction cleanly into the reconfigured room.

Housing in New Malden

The valuation list shows roughly 7,070 homes in New Malden, of which 33% are pre-1919, 33% interwar and 34% post-1945, split 31% flats to 69% houses. 31% of homes here are semi-detached; the flank wall of a semi in New Malden gives a kitchen extract and a moved sink the shortest route outside.

Planning a New Malden kitchen in a flat or under a flat roof

31% of homes in New Malden are flats, and in a flat the kitchen position is tied to the soil stack and to the rooms below. Moving the sink across the room needs a waste route with a proper fall inside your own floor, because the ceiling void underneath is usually not yours to use. A kitchen moved over a neighbour's bedroom brings appliance noise and a leak risk into their home, and a lease may require the freeholder's consent for the move. Read the alterations clause in the lease before planning a new layout, not after the units are ordered.

In a house, a kitchen extension brings a different limit. For a planning application, Kingston's Residential Design SPD says a single storey rear extension with a flat roof should not exceed 3m in height. Under that roof, the joists, insulation, deck, ceiling and any rooflight upstand all share the space, while wall units, a hood duct and pendants over an island all need ceiling room. Plan the extraction route and the ceiling height together in New Malden before the roof is framed. A duct through a flat roof needs its path through the joists set out on the drawings, not cut in later.

Bespoke kitchens and worktops in KT3

Whether you want handleless contemporary units or a classic Shaker kitchen, we build to suit the proportions of your New Malden home, working around the chimney breast and any alcoves the interwar layout leaves behind. Worktops come in quartz, granite or composite, templated and fitted precisely, with matching upstands and splashbacks that tie the room together.

Every element is coordinated by us, from the first-fix plumbing and the notifiable electrics through to tiling, lighting and the final appliance integration. Any new circuit or consumer unit change in a New Malden kitchen is notifiable under Part P, so a registered electrician certifies it or it is notified to building control, giving you a KT3 kitchen that looks the part and carries the right paperwork behind it.

Using the garage or side return for kitchen space

Many New Malden semis have an attached garage or a wide side passage that is too narrow for a modern car and used only for bicycles and boxes. Bringing that footprint into the kitchen is often cheaper than extending, because the walls and roof already exist. What it needs is upgrading rather than building: an insulated floor over the existing slab, insulation to the walls and roof, and the garage door opening filled in with proper glazing.

There are things to check first. The garage floor usually sits lower than the house and slopes to the door, so levels have to be resolved. Damp proofing is often absent, and the roof may be single skin. Where the wall between house and garage is removed, the engineer designs the opening in the usual way. Done properly, it turns a cramped KT3 kitchen into a full kitchen and dining room without touching the garden.

• Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
• New circuits and consumer unit work certified by a registered electrician under Part P
• Extraction ducted through to outside air

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for New Malden East and New Malden West. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Two or three things usually come up alongside kitchen renovation on a New Malden job: load-bearing wall removal in New Malden, kitchen renovation across Kingston upon Thames, kitchen fitting in London, when a kitchen needs a building contractor, how we handle kitchen renovation across London and Quartz, Granite or Marble Worktops.

The GS Renovation Difference in New Malden

New Malden homeowners choose GS Renovation because one team delivers the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish. You get honest pricing, tidy working in an occupied KT3 home, and certified electrics that meet the Building Regulations. Our founder's 30+ years on the tools means the design, the structure and the fit-out are all in safe hands.

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.