Kitchen Fitters in Chesterfield

Where is a Chesterfield kitchen designed?

In your own kitchen: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens designs Chesterfield kitchens at a free home visit and has no showroom, so the door, worktop and handle samples are brought to the house. In a high-ceilinged Brampton or Ashgate terrace that matters, because a colour that works under showroom spotlights can look very different against a north-facing outrigger window. We measure, talk through how you cook, and draw the room to scale with every unit, appliance and walkway shown before anything is ordered.

Who carries out the work on the kitchen?

Every trade on a Chesterfield kitchen is carried out by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens' own people: the kitchen fitter, plumber, electrician, plasterer and tiler. That is what people mean when they ask for local kitchen fitters who do the whole job. In practice nothing waits: the wall is skimmed the day after the units come out, the sockets are in before the new units go back, and one person is answerable for the result from survey to handover.

Will you fit a kitchen I have bought from a trade depot?

Yes: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens fits kitchens bought from Howdens, Wren, B&Q or any other Chesterfield supplier as carefully as the complete kitchens we supply ourselves. Before you order, we hold the supplier's drawing up against our own measurements and tell you if a corner will not work, because a missing filler on the drawing turns into a missing unit on fitting day. The quote shows our fitting separately, so you can see exactly what you are paying us for.

Kitchen fitting-only service

Which integrated appliances can you fit and wire in?

Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens fits and connects integrated ovens, induction hobs, extractors, dishwashers, fridges and freezers from makers such as Bosch, Neff and Siemens, along with Quooker boiling-water taps. A Chesterfield kitchen fitted in the 1990s was wired for the appliances of the 1990s, so most need a cooker circuit sized for induction, more sockets at worktop height and extraction ducted outside. Our electrician does that while the walls are bare, tests it, and certifies the new circuits under Part P.

Can you build an island in a Walton or Somersall kitchen-diner?

Yes, where the room allows: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens builds islands in Chesterfield kitchen-diners with seating, storage, a sink or the hob set into them, once the plan shows clear walkways on every side. In the larger semis and detached houses at Walton, Somersall and Wingerworth the island usually stands where the dividing wall used to be, so the waste, water and power runs to it are laid in the floor before the floor finish goes down.

Kitchen islands built and fitted

What splashback suits a Chesterfield kitchen?

It depends on the room, and Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens fits all the common types: tiles fixed by our own tilers, toughened glass cut to size, and upstands in the same quartz or laminate as the worktop. Metro and patterned tiles tend to suit the Brampton terraces; a single glass or stone panel behind the hob suits the cleaner lines of the newer houses. The wall is skimmed flat first, so the splashback does not show every ripple in thirty-year-old plaster.

Kitchen splashbacks

Why put the walls and floor right before the units go in?

Because Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens finds the same thing in most 1990s Chesterfield kitchens we strip out: walls that were never plastered behind the units, and a step in the floor where the larder used to be. We skim the walls and level the floor first, then fit. Units fixed to a bad wall or a sloping floor never look right, however good the doors are, and the worktop joints are the first thing to show it.