A kitchen renovation can be the point where the structure gets touched, because the wall you want gone, or the chimney breast in the corner, may be doing a job. We survey first, appoint a structural engineer where the design needs one, and build to the calculations issued. We also run the trades that follow: drainage, electrics, plastering, tiling and the fitting itself. This page covers what that means in Windsor's older housing.
Water and drainage for a Windsor kitchen sit with Thames Water
Thames Water is the statutory undertaker for both water supply and sewerage across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. If a new layout takes a waste run to a different position, alters a connection or brings work close to a public sewer, Thames Water is the body involved rather than the council. We establish where the existing drainage runs before the layout is signed off, because a sink on the wrong wall is an expensive change once the floor is down.
Space at the back of a Windsor terrace is limited, and so is the route in
Grove Road in Windsor is described in the council's appraisal as a long terraced row of small dwellings built up to the pavement, with small basements and modest rear yards and gardens. A modest rear yard sets what a kitchen can expand into, and a basement under the floor affects how services are run and what any new opening bears on. We measure both at survey before a layout is drawn.
Access decides how the job runs day to day. At Gardner Cottages, each terrace of twelve cottages has a larger cottage at each end and a pair of larger cottages in the middle flanking a passage that leads to the rear. Where there is no such passage, units, appliances, spoil and waste all travel through the house. The Inner Windsor appraisal dates the dwellings on the minor streets to between the mid to late nineteenth century and the First World War, with some rows such as Grove Road earlier. The floors and walls being worked into are of that age.
- Sink, tap and filter installation with full leak testing
- Waste, water and gas runs moved before the units are set
- Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good
- Plastering, decorating and second fix carpentry
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
Why Windsor Homeowners Choose GS Renovation
A kitchen in a small brick terrace can be a structural job wearing a kitchen's clothes. We settle what the walls are doing before the layout is fixed, and where a beam is needed we appoint the structural engineer and build to the calculations issued. We never write those calculations. Then we run the drainage, the electrics, the plastering, the tiling and the fitting on one programme, so you are not coordinating five trades yourself or waiting on the one who has not turned up. Where the work is notifiable we coordinate the building control application and the inspection dates. Quotations are free and without obligation, and GS Renovation Ltd is fully insured and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder.
- Worktops templated after installation for a precise fit
- Floors levelled and packed so doors and drawers line up
- A dedicated project manager from first survey to handover
- Materials priced at options, so you choose the finish
- Registered in England, Companies House no. 14611254
- Services moved and tested before the units go in, not after