Kitchen renovation in London

Our kitchen renovation cost guide at /kitchen-renovation-cost-london sets out the ranges and what moves them. In short: whether a wall comes out, whether services move, and the specification of units, worktops and appliances. A firm price follows a site visit and the drawings, because pricing a kitchen from a conversation is a guess rather than a quotation.

On site, four to six weeks for a replacement in the same layout, eight to ten where services move, and ten to fourteen where a structural opening is involved. Design and approvals run before that. Where a steel is needed, the calculation, the building control application and any party wall notice add time at the front rather than in the middle.

Usually, and the question is what the wall is doing rather than what it is made of. If it carries floor or roof load, the opening needs a structural calculation, a correctly sized steel, padstones and building control sign-off. In a terrace or a semi, cutting into a party wall also triggers a two-month notice period. We establish all of that at the survey, before pricing.

Either. We can supply the units, worktops and appliances against the agreed schedule, which keeps one party responsible if something arrives wrong or damaged. If you have already bought from a kitchen supplier, we will fit it and give you the delivery date the programme needs. Items you buy directly keep their own product warranty; the installation is ours in both cases.

For a like-for-like replacement, generally no application is needed, though the work must still meet the regulations. New electrical circuits are notifiable, extraction rates are controlled, and any structural opening, drainage alteration or new window brings a building control application with it. We tell you which of those apply before the quotation, not after the strip-out.

Yes, and it is usually the cheaper way round. Doing the kitchen extension and the kitchen fit-out under one contract means one set of drawings, one structural design, one building control application and one crew, so the making good between old and new is not a second mobilisation. It also avoids paying twice for protection, welfare and waste removal.

Most clients do. We set up a temporary kitchen point, seal the working area and clean down daily. The hardest stretch is the two weeks around strip-out and first fix, when water and power to the room are intermittent. Where a structural opening is involved there are also a few noisy days, which we schedule inside the borough's permitted hours for noisy works.

Before the drawings are finalised. Appliance dimensions and service requirements drive the cabinetry, the socket positions and the extraction, so a late change is one of the few things that genuinely moves a programme. If you have not decided, we will specify against a budget and a size, and you can substitute within those dimensions later.