Kitchen Fitters in Derby
Kitchen fitting across Derby by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens. We design the kitchen with you at a visit to your home, then either supply the whole kitchen or fit one you have bought from any supplier, with the plumbing, electrics, plastering, tiling and joinery done by the same team, to a fixed written price.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Distance from us
- about twenty-six miles — around fifty minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a week or so
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Kitchen Design and Fitting in Derby?
Derby kitchens follow the city's housing. In the Victorian terraces of Normanton, Pear Tree and Rose Hill the kitchen sits in the rear outrigger, a narrow galley with a window on one side and a door to the yard at the end, where a standard run of units rarely fits without a gap or a blank panel. In the interwar and post-war semis of Allestree, Chaddesden, Littleover and Mickleover it is a small square room at the back with a dining room on the other side of a wall the family would happily lose. On the 1980s and 1990s estates such as Oakwood it is usually a builder-standard kitchen being replaced with something better.
Whether you're after a full kitchen or new doors and worktops, as kitchen specialists coming to Derby from Creswell, about fifty minutes away, we start with a design visit to the house. We have no showroom: door, worktop and handle samples come to you and are judged in your own light, the room is measured by us, and the plan is drawn to scale before anything is ordered. There is no travel charge inside our thirty-mile radius, and most kitchens take five to ten working days from strip-out to handover.
What Do Derby Kitchens Usually Need?
In the terraces the work is about fitting a kitchen to a room that is not square. Walls lean, the floor falls towards the back door, and the chimney breast or a cellar door takes a bite out of one wall. Our joiners scribe worktops to the walls, make filler pieces and tall units to the room, and turn corners properly, so the finished kitchen looks fitted rather than placed in the room, and you get a beautiful finish you can trust in a space that was never square.
In the semis the most requested job is the kitchen-diner: taking out the wall between the kitchen and the dining room, often with a steel, and planning the new kitchen, the opening, the pipework and the wiring as one project. An island or a peninsula usually becomes possible once the wall is gone, as long as there is about a metre of clear floor around it.
Whatever the house, we fit integrated appliances behind matching doors, laminate, solid wood or quartz worktops, sinks, taps and splashbacks, and we bring the electrics up to date where the old circuits cannot take an induction hob or a double oven. Styles range from shaker and traditional painted kitchens to handleless and modern ones; the design visit is where you choose the look you want, and our expert team will help you make the most of the space.
What are we asked for most?
- Galley kitchens in the Victorian terraces, with worktops scribed and units made to fit the room
- Kitchen-diner knock-throughs in the semis, with the structural opening and the kitchen planned together
- Builder-standard kitchens replaced on the newer estates, often with an island and integrated appliances
- Fitting kitchens bought from Howdens, Wren, Magnet, B&Q, Wickes or any other supplier, priced separately from supply
What Does Our Kitchen Design and Fitting Include?
Every kitchen design and fitting job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
Do you supply the kitchen or only fit it?
Both, and we offer the same service from start to finish either way. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens supplies complete fitted kitchens, with the units, doors, worktops and integrated appliances ordered by us, and also fits kitchens Derby customers have bought from Howdens, Wren, Magnet, B&Q, Wickes or an online supplier. If you are buying your own, we check the supplier's plan against the room before you place the order, because a 30mm shortfall on paper becomes a missing unit or a visible filler on the day.
What happens, in order, during a kitchen fit?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens strips out the old kitchen and removes the waste, then does first-fix plumbing and electrics for the new positions, makes good the walls and levels the floor, sets and levels the units, templates and fits the worktops, connects and tests the appliances, tiles the splashback and floor, and cleans the room before walking you through it, so the time you are without a kitchen is kept short. Most kitchens reach handover five to ten working days after strip-out; stone or quartz worktops add a wait between templating and fitting.
What is the "3 kitchen rule"?
The "3 kitchen rule" usually means the work triangle: the sink, hob and fridge should form a triangle with each side roughly 1.2 to 2.7 metres long, so cooking does not mean walking the length of the room. It came from research into single-cook kitchens and is now a useful check rather than a rule. We draw it on the plan at the design visit, alongside the walkways and where the shopping lands.
Does a new kitchen need building regulations approval?
A like-for-like kitchen replacement does not usually need approval. A new circuit for an induction hob or oven comes under Part P, new drainage under Part H, the cooker hood extraction under Part F, and any gas work must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Taking out a load-bearing wall for a kitchen-diner needs building control. Derby City Council handles it if the local authority route is used, and we confirm what is notifiable at the survey.
What Else Might You Need?
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Where Else Near Derby Do We Fit Kitchens?
- Belper — about twenty miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Ilkeston — about twenty-one miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Alfreton — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Nottingham — about twenty-two miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
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Kitchen Design and Fitting in Derby: Questions We Get Asked
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