A kitchen renovation is a services job as much as a fitting job. Drainage, water, gas, power and ventilation all move before a single unit is offered up, and the order they move in decides how well the room works afterwards. Where an opening is part of it, we appoint a structural engineer and build to the calculations issued. This page covers what a kitchen renovation in Staines-upon-Thames has to work with.
Drainage decides where a kitchen can move to
Where a kitchen can move to is decided by what its waste can reach, and in this borough that is a combined system. The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment states that the majority of Spelthorne is served by a Thames Water combined surface and foul water sewer system. It adds that such a system is typically designed and constructed to accommodate rainfall events with a 1 in 30 year return period or less. A combined system carries foul water and surface water in the same pipe.
That matters as soon as a sink or a dishwasher moves across the room, or out into a new space at the back. Waste runs need fall, and the new connection has to reach something that already exists. We trace the existing run, lift a cover and take levels at the survey, so the layout is drawn around the drainage rather than the drainage being fought around the layout.
A kitchen in a flat and a kitchen in a house are different jobs to price
Census 2021 recorded 1,574 of the 4,011 households in the Staines ward living in purpose built blocks of flats or tenements, the largest single accommodation type in that ward.
In a flat the constraints are the lease, the neighbour below, the position of the stack and the building's own rules on noise and working hours. Acoustic separation under a new floor finish is a requirement there rather than an upgrade, and extract ventilation has to go somewhere the building allows. In a house the constraints are structural and external instead. We price the two differently because they are not the same work.
Owner occupied households are the recorded majority in the Staines South ward
Census 2021 recorded 1,915 of the 2,912 households in the Staines South ward as owner occupied, either owned outright or owned with a mortgage or loan. An owner occupier is buying a kitchen to use, not to hand over at the end of a tenancy.
That changes the conversation about sequence rather than about finishes. It is worth moving the waste, rewiring and taking out the wall while the room is already stripped back, because the next opportunity is years away. Where an opening is involved we appoint the structural engineer, install the beam and its bearings to the calculations issued, and coordinate the building control inspection before anything is boarded over.
- Waste, water and gas runs moved before the units are set
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
- Boiler relocation coordinated with a registered heating engineer
- Island units and bespoke cabinetry
- Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
Why Choose GS Renovation in Staines-upon-Thames
A kitchen is won or lost in the first fix, which is the part you never see again. Drainage falls, pipe routes, cable runs, extract and any structural opening all have to be right before plasterboard goes anywhere near them. We run that sequence ourselves, with one point of contact for the strip out, the services, the structural work and the fitting, so no trade turns up to find the one before it has not finished. Where a wall comes out, the structural engineer we appoint issues the calculations and we build to them. We never produce those calculations ourselves. GS Renovation Ltd is fully insured, and quotations are free and without obligation.
- Our own trades on site rather than a chain of subcontractors
- New circuits and consumer unit work certified under Part P
- Suppliers used across every budget, with options priced
- Dust screens and floor protection in occupied homes
- Floors levelled and packed so doors and drawers line up
- Neighbours given notice before the noisy stages