Kitchen Renovation Slough

A kitchen renovation becomes a structural job as soon as a wall comes out or the room reaches into the garden. We survey, appoint the structural engineer where one is needed, build to the calculations issued, and coordinate the building control application and inspections. We never produce those calculations ourselves. This page covers two Slough specifics: how far you can go at the back, and what is underneath when you get there.

For Slough, on London-derived ranges a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting; Berkshire work generally runs below that. GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Slough: 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 Slough 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.

How far a kitchen extension can go at the back

Slough's guideline maximum depth for a single storey rear extension is 3.65 metres for a terraced house and 4.25 metres for a semi-detached or detached house, measured from the rear main wall of the original house. That figure decides whether an island fits, so it belongs in the conversation before the kitchen is designed rather than after.

Height is limited too. Where the extension abuts a residential boundary, Slough's guideline maximum is 3 metres for a flat roof, and 3 metres at the mid-point of the pitch at the side boundary for a pitched roof. That constrains the ceiling height and the rooflight detail on the boundary side, so settle it before the ceiling is drawn.

Housing in Slough

The Council Tax list puts Slough at about 57,360 homes, 37% flats against 63% houses; 5% went up before 1919, 20% between the wars and 73% after 1945. A mid-terrace kitchen in Slough has to vent out the front or back, not the side, and 34% of homes here are terraced.

What the new floor is bearing on

The British Geological Survey takes the type section of the Langley Silt Member, its formal name for the Thames valley brickearth, from a gravel pit at Langley in Slough. BGS records the member as 1 to 5 metres thick with an average of 3 metres, varying from silt to clay, and notes that its previous name was Brickearth. A footing in that material behaves differently from a footing in gravel.

The answer changes across the borough. BGS 1:50 000 mapping shows the Shepperton Gravel Member, sand and gravel, over Lambeth Group bedrock across Cippenham. The Taplow Gravel Member appears to the north towards Burnham Lane, and the Langley Silt Member along the eastern edge towards the town centre. That is why the trial hole comes before the price rather than after it.

Drainage decides how much garden you can build on

Slough Borough Council states that its minimum garden depths are set so that soakaways can be built for the correct disposal of surface water from approved extensions. It states that a soakaway needs to sit at least 5 metres from the completed extension. A kitchen extension roof produces surface water that has to go somewhere.

So the drainage strategy and the extension depth are one decision rather than two. We take the levels and the garden dimensions at survey and put them in front of the design, which costs less than moving a soakaway once the slab is down.

• New circuits and consumer unit work certified by a registered electrician under Part P
• Handleless, shaker and in-frame door styles fitted
• Tiling, flooring and feature lighting

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 15 statistical areas in Slough. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Useful next reading for a kitchen renovation project in Slough: load-bearing wall removal in Slough, kitchen renovation in Windsor, kitchen fitting in London, when a kitchen needs a building contractor, kitchen renovation anywhere in London and Open-Plan Kitchen-Diner Ideas.

Why Choose GS Renovation in Slough

A kitchen is the room where the structure, the drainage, the electrics and the gas all land in the same few square metres, so the order of work decides the finish. We survey, appoint the structural engineer where the job needs one, and set the building control application and the inspections with Slough Borough Council against a written programme. Where the kitchen reaches into the garden, we take the depth, the height and the ground conditions off your plot before the units are chosen. We build to the engineer's calculations and never produce them ourselves. GS Renovation Ltd is fully insured and registered in England, company number 14611254, and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder. Quotations are free and carry no obligation.

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.